The Angel Mountain Blog

I thought this was lost for ever, but the BBC has kept this on the archive, and has made it accessible online, here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00s7zzq It's from a programmes called "The Hills of David", first transmitted in the 1960's. I think the first part (the Pwnc) was filmed in Jabes Chapel, and it's great to see the boys and girls singing the Pwnc with such clarity and confidence.  The second part was filmed in Ffynnondici Farm, and captures the Hen Galan celebrations very nicely.   Some familiar faces in there........ 

  Erratic boulders of dolerite were used in the earliest phases of sea wall construction, to provide a solid foundation. This slipway is made partly of dolerite boulders collected locally, and partly of slate slabs from the sea quarries. Here we can see that an old set of steps has been abandoned as the height of the wall has been increased.  Also, lines of new boulders were brought in to prevent the wall from being undercut by wave erosion. The Parrog sea defences are rather fascinating!  They were built mostly in the early 1800s in the heyday of the port, when vessels were coming and going on almost every tide.  Some of them were actually built as trading quays, designed for vessels to tie up alongside, but they were hardly ever used as intended, because except at extreme spring tides there was never an adequate depth of water.  So vessels were mostly loaded and unloaded as they lay on the sandbanks around the river mouth, held up with props, with horses and c...