Echoes of the Past Pembrokeshire Echoes

Mari James is the Library Development Officer at St. David's Cathedral, and she talks about the life of St. David (Dewi Sant), the history of the Cathedral, and the role that it has played in the history of Christian worship, in Wales and beyond.

We are grateful to the Dean and Chapter of St David's Cathedral for permission to use the recording of Choral Scholars, Lawrence Pethick and Adrian Harris, chanting at the weekly Prayers at the Shrine of St David on 14th January 2022.

Further information can be found at https://www.stdavidscathedral.org.uk/ and https://www.stdavidscathedral.org.uk/discover/library.

For details of services on St David's Day please see the Cathedral website, and please remember that events may change subject to rules and restrictions that are in place to limit the spread of Covid-19.  The following information has been provided by staff at the Cathedral and is accurate at the time of publishing. 

March 1st is always a day of celebration in St David's, especially in the Cathedral.

This year (2022), on Tuesday it starts at 8am with Prayers and Holy Communion at the Shrine of St David in the centre of the Cathedral.

Then at 10am there is a service with local school children. At 11.15am all are welcome to join the Bishop of St David's with the Dean and clergy of the Cathedral at St Non’s Chapel and Well on the nearby cliff top where there will be a short service of blessing before a procession via Oriel y Parc to the Cross in the City Square for the Bishop’s blessing of the City, and continued Procession onto the Cathedral. The procession will arrive at the Cathedral to join the congregation at 12.30pm at the Quire and High Altar.

The Cathedral. Including the Cathedral Library, are open all day for visitors. There is then a Choral Evensong at 6pm in the medieval Quire. This is sung by the Cathedral Choir and will include Meirion Wynn Jones’ arrangement of O Ddewi Sanctaidd.

Everyone is welcome to the Cathedral to join for any or all of these services and events, and just to be in the place where St David lived and died, and ran his monastery in the 6th century.

Then on the following Sunday, 6th March, there will be also be a special service at 4pm to celebrate the Life of St David and marking different stages and events in his life.  All are welcome. Croeso I bawb.

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Echoes of the past is a podcast about Pembrokeshire, about history and culture, and about the importance of this corner of Wales to the wider world.

The Echoes of the Past podcast is produced by PLANED (www.planed.org.uk) and is funded by Arwain Sir Benfro (www.arwainsirbenfro.cymru).

Echoes website: http://www.echoeswales.cymru/

Echoes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PembsEchoes

Echoes on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PembrokeshireEchoes

Music: Water Lily - The 126ers https://youtu.be/BQm22usqKds

Tomos Jones is the Community Archaeologist for Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority, and he describes a brief history of Nevern Castle and the results of recent archaeological investigations that have taken place. Notable among this work is that by Dr Chris Caple and the team from Durham University who undertook excavations at the site between 2008 and 2018.

Further information can be found at https://neverncastle.wales/.

Websites also mentioned in this podcast include https://archwilio.org.uk/ and https://coflein.gov.uk/.

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Echoes of the past is a podcast about Pembrokeshire, about history and culture, and about the importance of this corner of Wales to the wider world.

The Echoes of the Past podcast is produced by PLANED (www.planed.org.uk) and is funded by Arwain Sir Benfro (www.arwainsirbenfro.cymru).

Echoes website: http://www.echoeswales.cymru/

Echoes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PembsEchoes

Echoes on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PembrokeshireEchoes

Music: Water Lily - The 126ers https://youtu.be/BQm22usqKds

Cân y Ffordd Euraidd (The Song of the Golden Road) is a radio ballad created in response to the Preseli Heartlands from Crymych to Cwm Gwaun. The project has taken the form of a series of workshops and walks from the communities that reside at the foot of the Preselis. These sessions were an opportunity to get to know the place from different perspectives. These ramblings were be followed by weekend of music-making where participants and musicians were invited to give voice to the songs of the place. Speech, sound and song have been incorporated into the final ballad, an oral record of a unique place, that we hope future generations can continue to appreciate and enjoy for years to come.

Mae’r prosiect Cân y Ffordd Euraidd wedi creu baled radio mewn ymateb i Ein Cymdogaeth Werin o Grymych i Gwm Gwaun. Mae’r prosiect wedi cymryd ffurf cyfres o weithdai a theithiau cerdded o’r cymunedau sydd yn byw wrth droed y Preselau. Roedd y sesiynau cychwynnol yn gyfle i ddod i adnabod y lle o wahanol bersbectifau. Dilynodd y crwydradau yma gan benwythnos dwys o gerddora pan wahoddwyd cyfranogwyr a cherddorion i roi llais i ganeuon y lle. Yna, cafodd llais, sain a chân eu hymgorffori i’r faled radio derfynol, cofnod llafar o le unigryw, un y bydd y cenedlaethau i ddod yn gallu ei werthfawrogi a’i fwynhau am flynyddoedd yn y dyfodol.

Credydau Baled Radio | Radio Ballad Credits

For full credits and to access a transcripted version of the ballad:

Am gredydau llawn ac i gael mynediad at fersiwn wedi'i thrawsgrifio o'r faled:

https://vimeo.com/642288464

Recordiwr Sain a Ffilm | Sound Recorder and Film: Jacob Whittaker

Recordiwr Sain a Chynhyrchydd y Faled | Sound Recorder and Ballad Producer: Paul Evans

Cysyniad Creadigol a Chynhyrchydd Cymunedol | Creative Concept and Community Producer: Rowan O’Neill

Am fwy o wybodaeth gweler | For more information see: https://span-arts.org.uk/listen-now-song-of-the-golden-road-radio-ballad/?locale=en-GB

Map y prosiect | Project map: https://deep-map.azurewebsites.net/?project=ffordd

Ffilm fer Saernïo Cân y Ffordd Euraidd | Short Film Crafting the Song of the Golden Road: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2WHcrzotqY

Rhan o’r prosiect Ein Cymdogaeth Werin Preseli sydd wedi’i ariannu gan Gronfa Treftadaeth y Loteri Genedlaethol.

Part of the Preseli Heartlands Project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

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Echoes of the past is a podcast about Pembrokeshire, about history and culture, and about the importance of this corner of Wales to the wider world.

The Echoes of the Past podcast is produced by PLANED (www.planed.org.uk) and was originally funded by Arwain Sir Benfro (www.arwainsirbenfro.cymru).

Echoes website: http://www.echoeswales.cymru/

Echoes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PembsEchoes

Echoes on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PembrokeshireEchoes

Ident Music: Water Lily - The 126ers https://youtu.be/BQm22usqKds

Cân y Ffordd Euraidd (The Song of the Golden Road) is a radio ballad created in response to the Preseli Heartlands from Crymych to Cwm Gwaun. The project has taken the form of a series of workshops and walks from the communities that reside at the foot of the Preselis. These sessions were an opportunity to get to know the place from different perspectives. These ramblings were be followed by weekend of music-making where participants and musicians were invited to give voice to the songs of the place. Speech, sound and song have been incorporated into the final ballad, an oral record of a unique place, that we hope future generations can continue to appreciate and enjoy for years to come.

Mae’r prosiect Cân y Ffordd Euraidd wedi creu baled radio mewn ymateb i Ein Cymdogaeth Werin o Grymych i Gwm Gwaun. Mae’r prosiect wedi cymryd ffurf cyfres o weithdai a theithiau cerdded o’r cymunedau sydd yn byw wrth droed y Preselau. Roedd y sesiynau cychwynnol yn gyfle i ddod i adnabod y lle o wahanol bersbectifau. Dilynodd y crwydradau yma gan benwythnos dwys o gerddora pan wahoddwyd cyfranogwyr a cherddorion i roi llais i ganeuon y lle. Yna, cafodd llais, sain a chân eu hymgorffori i’r faled radio derfynol, cofnod llafar o le unigryw, un y bydd y cenedlaethau i ddod yn gallu ei werthfawrogi a’i fwynhau am flynyddoedd yn y dyfodol.



Credydau Baled Radio | Radio Ballad Credits

For full credits and to access a transcripted version of the ballad:   

Am gredydau llawn ac i gael mynediad at fersiwn wedi'i thrawsgrifio o'r faled:

https://vimeo.com/642288464



Recordiwr Sain a Ffilm | Sound Recorder and Film: Jacob Whittaker

Recordiwr Sain a Chynhyrchydd y Faled | Sound Recorder and Ballad Producer: Paul Evans

Cysyniad Creadigol a Chynhyrchydd Cymunedol | Creative Concept and Community Producer: Rowan O’Neill

Am fwy o wybodaeth gweler | For more information see: https://span-arts.org.uk/listen-now-song-of-the-golden-road-radio-ballad/?locale=en-GB

Map y prosiect | Project map: https://deep-map.azurewebsites.net/?project=ffordd

Ffilm fer Saernïo Cân y Ffordd Euraidd | Short Film Crafting the Song of the Golden Road: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2WHcrzotqY



Rhan o’r prosiect Ein Cymdogaeth Werin Preseli sydd wedi’i ariannu gan Gronfa Treftadaeth y Loteri Genedlaethol.

Part of the Preseli Heartlands Project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.



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Echoes of the past is a podcast about Pembrokeshire, about history and culture, and about the importance of this corner of Wales to the wider world.

The Echoes of the Past podcast is produced by PLANED (www.planed.org.uk) and was originally funded by Arwain Sir Benfro (www.arwainsirbenfro.cymru).

Echoes website: http://www.echoeswales.cymru/

Echoes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PembsEchoes

Echoes on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PembrokeshireEchoes

Ident Music: Water Lily - The 126ers https://youtu.be/BQm22usqKds

Gareth Mills is a volunteer at Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre, and describes his work researching some of the personal stories of Pembrokeshire people linked to the second world war build up of US military forces in the county in the build up to D-Day in June 1944.

Echoes of the past is a podcast about Pembrokeshire, about history and culture, and about the importance of this corner of Wales to the wider world.

The Echoes of the Past podcast is produced by PLANED (www.planed.org.uk) and is funded by Arwain Sir Benfro (www.arwainsirbenfro.cymru).

Echoes website: http://www.echoeswales.cymru/

Echoes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PembsEchoes

Echoes on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PembrokeshireEchoes

Music: Water Lily - The 126ers https://youtu.be/BQm22usqKds

Edward Perkins has links to heritage activities in communities across Pembrokeshire and talks about some of the facets of Pembrokeshire's history that fascinate him the most.

Pembrokeshire Community Heritage Week 2021 is a series of virtual events happening from Monday 31 May to Friday 4 June celebrating the best of our community history.

Echoes of the past is a podcast about Pembrokeshire, about history and culture, and about the importance of this corner of Wales to the wider world.

The Echoes of the Past podcast is produced by PLANED (www.planed.org.uk) and is funded by Arwain Sir Benfro (www.arwainsirbenfro.cymru).

Echoes website: http://www.echoeswales.cymru/

Echoes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PembsEchoes

Echoes on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PembrokeshireEchoes

Music: Water Lily - The 126ers https://youtu.be/BQm22usqKds