PORTHCAWL
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Newton Pop And Beer Festival 2016: Saturday, August 27 on Newton Green. Watch out for posters and Tee shirts giving details and times of bands: if you like the current genre of music then it really is worth a visit.
Wild Life: The mackerel are off Porthcawl and so are the Porpoises; both have been sighted off the harbour wall.
Monies Raised Poppy Appeal 2015-16: The Porthcawl Branch of the Royal British Legion have written to me to ask me to offer their most grateful thanks to the people of Porthcawl for their magnificent support for this year’s Poppy appeal, which so far has raised the magnificent sum of £15.650.18p.
This has already broken last years record total, and in so doing has made it their most successful year to date and remember that there are still a few weeks to go; the fund raising year ending as it does on September 30.
The Porthcawl Branch will be ordering Wreaths for the Armistice Day Service very shortly, so any organization or individual who is not already on their list and who would like a Wreath for this year (2016) should contact
National Sailing Championship Week: We have all been watching the Olympics over the last week and possibly, like me you have been watching sports you wouldn’t normally been watching such as Beach Volley Ball and Rugby sevens; and yes aren’t we doing well both as Team GB and Wales!
While all this is going on other things have been going on – like the National Sailing Championships which this year took place off Mumbles Head.
After three days of hard sailing at Mumbles the wind finally dropped, but nevertheless the victors were David John Edwards from Porthcawl and his crew Adam Bowers with a combined age of over 100 years, and sailing together for the first time in twenty years when they won the same class. Well done David John.
Summer Sailing from Porthcawl on MV Balmoral: there are still a few trips this summer. This Thursday, August 25 there are two short trips; the first, leaving at 10.45am is a cruise along the Heritage Coast to Nash Point and back and the other leaving at 12.30pm is a cruise past Nash Point and round Steep Holm and Flat Holm.
There are then two more trips from Porthcawl on Monday, August 29 and Sunday, September 4 but more about those later.
Porthcawl Lions Car Boot
The Marcher Stuarts: A quick reminder – the Marcher Stuarts are a 17th century Living History Group of friendly folks who entertain and hopefully educate the public while enjoying themselves.
The name comes from the Marches which was the name for the land in between England and Wales and really is the land either side of Offa’s Dyke which was an earthwork fortification built by King Offa of Mercia in the 8th century and which ran from Sedbury near Chepstow in the South to Prestatin in the North.
The group is pitching their tent in Porthcawl Museum on Saturday, September 17. They will practice their crafts and games quietly or make lots of noise with muskets, hook guns, blunderbus and canon; perhaps kill a witch or two, shoot arrows, brandish swords and generally have a busy and enjoyable time.
William (Bill) Lewis: It is with deep regret that I must pass on the news that Bill Lewis has passed away suddenly at home some two days ago.
Bill who lived in the Forty Acre Site here in Porthcawl was a keen Rotarian, and Mason and had a lifelong connection with Porthcawl RFC.
But most of all he had a beautiful Bass voice which really did, as my mother would have said, ‘come from his boots’.
He sang with All Saint’s Church choir and with ‘Col Canto’ and was in great demand as a soloist. Our thoughts and happy memories must be with his wife ‘Ginge’ and the family.