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Cardigan Castle: Facts & Figures

Jac — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 21:25:43 +0000

I’m off to Scotland tomorrow and so, as Thursday sees the AGM of the Cadwgan Building Preservation Trust aka the Gang of Four + One, I have decided to put up a few of the many and varied documents that have come my way from all manner of sources (some very surprising!). They might help …

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Cardigan Castle: Victory in Sight?

Jac — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 19:55:16 +0000

My first post on this subject was Cardigan Castle – Ready to Fall? on July 7th. Since then I have posted Cardigan Castle – It’s Getting Worse! (July 12th), Cardigan Castle: Gang of Four + One (July 21st), there was a section in Updates, etc (July 26th), then came Cardigan Castle: Guest Post by ‘Dyn …

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Cardigan Castle: Guest Post by ‘Dyn Deche Rhys’

Jac — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 08:05:38 +0000

It was quite a week for the trustees of Cardigan Castle. What was supposed to have been a gradual build-up of excitement culminating in the Grand Opening Concert featuring Bellowhead, the English folk-rock group, turned instead into an epic PR disaster for the board, headed by Aberporth’s answer to Sepp Blatter, the 80 year-old Jann …

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Updates, etc: Cardigan Castle, Organ Harvesting, Overseas Aid Programme, Housing Associations, Labour Leadership Contest

Jac — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 17:04:11 +0000

CARDIGAN CASTLE I don’t want anyone to think I’m picking on the women running and wrecking the Cardigan Castle project (nor would I want anyone to think I plan on ignoring them!) but I couldn’t write this post without a mention of developments since my previous post. Here’s a selection. Someone informed me that at …

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Cardigan Castle: Gang of Four + One

Jac — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 09:42:20 +0000

My two recent posts on Cardigan Castle have generated an incredible response. On Thursday the 9th – when I was away in Pembrokeshire – my blog received a record 2,223 visits, and the ‘Cardigan Castle – Ready to Fall?’ post has been shared on Facebook an incredible 534 times, another record. Since then, more information …

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Cardigan Castle – It’s Getting Worse!

Jac — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 20:15:05 +0000

I have just returned from a short break in Pembrokeshire. On the way down my wife and I stopped in Cardigan, and once there we were inevitably drawn to the castle. Now I may not have walked around with a calculator in my hand but I certainly came away wondering where twelve million pounds has …

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