• After a number of years, Hando married again to Daisy, a staff member at his school. The couple soon had a son, Robert. Fred Hando unlocked our prison and...
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    Described as "the cathedral of the moors" by Monmouthshire historian Fred Hando, the large church is medieval in origin, with additions and restorations...
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    Machen, as a pen name.[citation needed] Local historian and folklorist Fred Hando suggests Machen's early interest in the occult came from an article of...
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    Llareggub Hill in his Under Milk Wood. Local historian and folklorist Fred Hando tells of the "Mountain Organ" produced by the wind on the southern slopes...
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    covered in more anecdotal form by the Monmouthshire writer and artist Fred Hando, who chronicled the highways and byways of the county in some 800 newspaper...
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    Parliament. Construction began in 1794, and the local author and artist Fred Hando records that the building "was completed within two years". The building...
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    ISBN 978-1-4456-3703-7. Hando, Fred (1964). Monmouth Town Sketch Book. Newport: R.H.Johns Ltd. OCLC 30295655. Hando, Fred (1964). Here and There in...
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    12th-century parish church of Nash near Newport described by local historian Fred Hando as "the Cathedral of the Moors". Lysaght Institute – former working men's...
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    visited by approximately 70,000 people every year. The Monmouthshire writer Fred Hando records the tradition of Tewdrig, King of Glywysing who retired to a hermitage...
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    the account of the Book of Llandaff. In 1958 the writer and illustrator Fred Hando recorded a story told to him by an old woman, long resident in Mathern...
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    crafts and visual arts. Writing in 1951, local historian and folklorist Fred Hando described the traditional journey through Caerleon of the Mari Lwyd or...
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  • Greene (trained as an engineering draughtsman at Newport College of Art) Fred Hando (writer, artist and schoolteacher) Lyn Harding (actor) Anne Hegerty (TV...
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    Monmouthshire Sketchbook by the author and artist Fred Hando for the South Wales Argus between 1922 and 1970. Hando wrote that the cross was one of the only two...
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    the Renaissance in th(e) county". The Monmouthshire author and artist, Fred Hando, visited the house in the early 1950s and described it is his book Journeys...
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    1941 for the installation of the gates, although Fred Hando records this as happening in 1961. Hando is supported by the school's historian, H. A. Ward...
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    chancel about to slide overboard". The Monmouthshire writer and artist Fred Hando describes the church chancel as an example of a "weeping chancel", where...
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    large and "highly unusual" stair turret which incorporates the porch. Fred Hando, the Monmouthshire writer and artist, recorded a visit to Trivor in the...
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  • with thyme or another fragrant herb and held by a skewer." Similarly, Fred Hando in his 1944 book "The Pleasant Land of Gwent", reproduces an illustration...
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    made him abandon what would have been his second novel. At a local level Fred Hando (1888–1970) chronicled and illustrated the history, character and folklore...
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    Henry V in their French wars and the Monmouthshire author and artist Fred Hando records the legend that Henry V's crown jewels were kept at St Pierre...
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    equalled in any other part of Monmouthshire." The author and illustrator Fred Hando also visited and wrote an article on the manor and folly for the South...
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    with an 18th-century cover. The church is described by local historian Fred Hando in his 1958 Out and About in Monmouthshire. He includes a sketch of the...
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    broken font was lying on the floor, among the weeds and elder trees". Fred Hando, the Monmouthshire writer and illustrator, who visited about 150 years...
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    dated 1910, records the restoration. The Monmouthshire author and artist Fred Hando recorded that the churchyard held the grave of Eleanor Isabella Gill,...
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    complete rebuilding of the interior. The Monmouthshire author and artist Fred Hando recorded that the two bells in the tower dated from 1635 and 1677. The...
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    1600. The house is Grade II* listed. The Monmouthshire writer and artist Fred Hando, recording a visit to the Old Cottage made in the 1960s, notes a plaque...
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  • musician Tessa Hadley (born 1956, E), novelist and non-fiction writer Fred Hando (1888–1970, E), Monmouthshire historian, topographer and educator Alan...
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  • Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld Rhys Davies – Black Venus Fred Hando - The Pleasant Land of Gwent Jack Jones - The Man David Alun Lewis - The...
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    in 1876 after being accused of polluting Mounton Brook. According to Fred Hando one of the mills produced the paper used for Bank of England notes, but...
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