About
We live in a beautiful part of Wales and
the house has always been busy, raising
a family, grandchildren, pets and more.
Carol.
Carol was born in Essex and moved to Wales when she was
five, her father, Glyn, was a farmer and Gellfechan was his
boyhood home. When they moved to Wales Glyn bought
Pentre Mawr farm in Dyffryn Ardudwy. It was a promise
made to Glyn that led her to write her little family history,
Gellfechan and it’s last Family. The best place to read the
book is sitting outside the ruin on a sunny day. Carol found
Gellfechan an enchanting place as a child and still does. Since
writing the book we heard a story of how when her father
was a boy he would race up to Gellfechan with his brothers
and sister from school for lunch, as if they could smell their
Mother’s cooking. With only a few copies of the book left and
at our time of life it would be a waste to print another run.
We have decided that to keep the story out there we have
made a PDF copy of the book available. So if you are
interested you can buy a copy here for £1 and we will email
the file to you,
Pentre Mawr farm is now owned by Carol’s brother Dennis
and his wife Sue. The farmhouse is now a B&B the postcode
is LL44 2ES Tel: 01341247413.
John.
John was born in Cheshire and moved to Wales to
join his family who had moved there some years
previous. John is a keen amateur photographer
and enjoys researching family history, gardening
(vegetables) and nature (watching and
photographing) and watching motor racing
especially motorbikes.
Poppy
Poppy is our pet cat, she is still very mischievous and
although 15 years old can still be kitten like. She loves going
to sleep on Carol’s lap and she tolerates John.
