Login Traditional Cache
smoggie: Time to say goodbye
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Placed at the start of a young boy`s famous and last journey. Journey onwards to discover the Beacons tragic event.
The Brecon Beacons have had several tragic events over the years and this is the beginning if probably the most famous. Enjoy the area, try to imagine Tommy Jones last walk. August 4th, 1900 was the Saturday before the Bank Holiday. A miner from Maerdy, at the head of the Rhondda Fach, decided to take his five-year-old son with him to visit the child's grandparents who still farmed near Brecon. They arrived in the town by train at about six o'clock in the evening. From there they had to walk four miles to reach Cwm-llwch, the little farmhouse deep in the valley to the north of the Beacons. By about eight o'clock they had reached the Login (today in ruins) where soldiers were encamped for training at the rifle range up the valley. It had been a warm walk and though they had only a quarter of a mile further to go, William Jones was glad to stop for refreshment and buy little Tommy a pennyworth of biscuits at the canteen. By chance, within a few minutes the grandfather also arrived, with 13-year-old Willie John, Tommy's cousin. Willie was sent back to Cwm-lIwch to warn the household of the arrival of visitors, and Tommy ran off with him up the valley. They had to cross two rough plank bridges, one without a handrail. In the failing light, the streams and trees were perhaps frightening to a small boy brought up amongst closely-packed houses. He may have been afraid of meeting farm animals also. At any rate, when the two of them had got about half way, Tommy started to cry and wanted to go back to his father. So the two boys parted. Willie completed his errand and was back at the camp within about quarter of an hour of leaving it, but Tommy had not returned. Placed with the permission of the BBNPA WELL DONE sniffadogz for being FTF
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