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From desolate marsh to a desolate town - from William the Conqueror to Queen VictoriaGrangetown is a district to the southwest of the city of Cardiff, bounded by the rivers Taff and Ely and the Severn Estuary. It is an area of terraced housing, small industries and commercial outlets, besides boasting a comprehensive range of social facilities. Its architecture is clearly Victorian, but why was it built in that period and who was behind it? Ju...

A working-class district of Cardiff, the area where the author lived as a child was experienced as an island in the 1940s and 50s, a world surrounded by the noise and clamour of industry. Docks, railways, canals, foundries, gasworks, steam engines and ships all called siren-like to children eager to explore the world outside it. Cowboys fought Indians, heroes fought dragons and inventors made cars out of planks of wood and pram wheels.School c...

Welcome to the village of Abertump, nestling in the Swansea Valley. A village recovering from the loss of traditional industry, and coping in its own, eccentric manner. Walk the streets and meet the residents to find out some of the background to the series, The Strange Life of Horatio Evans. Horatio finds hapless and unwitting allies in the village as he seeks to implement a Soviet-style administration in the depths of a South Wales valley.

The Making of Horatio EvansArdent communist, defender of the proletariat, and bin man, Horatio is convinced he has a calling to transform the village of Abertump and wake it from its sleep. Self-appointed leader of men, his confidence knows no bounds, even when disaster stares him in the face.From school expulsion to army court martial, he seems destined to confront authority. His desire to go his own way leads to some DIY disasters as he sets...

The Fogle family, the rich landowners of Abertump has a strange son, Marmaduke Wellington Fogle, who has returned penniless from his grand tour of Europe. He spent most of his time and their money tobogganing in Austria and lazing around Venice, where he fell in love with gondolas. Horatio had already tried using the canal for boating, but failed. So here is another chance for him to try again, this time using Fogle money. That Marmaduke insis...

Growing in confidence, but fed up with a lack of progress in bringing communism to Abertump, Horatio Evans decides to declare the town an independent soviet socialist republic. He, as its leader, decides to emulate Karl Marx by creating a reading room behind Jones' Emporium, (the ironmonger), in which to find inspiration. However, he finds he's the only one who's looking for inspiration. The rest of the town seem quite content, thank you. How ...

Now in his middle years, Horatio Evans has been knocked back by the failure of his communist uprising. The atmosphere in the town is also depressed, because several of the mines are to close. He sees this not as a crisis, but as another opportunity for a revolution - of sorts. If the mines are closing why doesn't the town buy them (for a song) and create visitors' attractions?Horatio's idea of setting up the theme park is beset by a major prob...