An indepth study of Lord and Lady Llanover

High Hats and Harps

The Life and Times of Lord and Lady Llanover

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Lady Llanofer - the Bee of Gwent

 

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Helen Forder
2004

The Harp ...continued

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Inventory. 7th April 1637.
David Pritchard, Vicar of St. Donat's.
Harp
Pair of playing tables
His books
Total Goods and Chattels

From Glamorgan Gaol Files

1703
. Evan Williams of Pentyrch was charged for playing the harp in Llanilltern Churchyard on a Sunday.

I am grateful to Nigel Williams for these two snippets.





value
value
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£ 2
£15.




3s.
3s.

9s.







6d.

Triple Harp
Triple Harp

The 1834 map of Brecon shows a harp shaped area marked as  Harp Close, near Captain's Walk.


The marine boating lake at Cold Knap, Barry, South Wales was built about 1920, in the shape of a Welsh Harp.


Lady Llanofer and the Triple Harp
'... And the Bee [Lady Llanofer] had, above all, doted utterly, of course, on the triple harp, on folk songs, and on dancing, Welsh folk dancing, and there is no doubt at all that the Abergavenny Eisteddfodau, between 1835 and 1853 had played a very important part in safeguarding those elements in Welsh culture. It is certain that the triple harp would have completely disappeared from the land were it not for Gwenynen Gwent who employed a harper in Cardiff, Bassett Jones, to make harps. That is, she put competitions in the eisteddfodau for players of the triple harp and instead of money being given to them as prizes, gave new harps to them. And it is likely that this Bassett Jones in Cardiff fashioned somewhere around three dozen brand new harps, and those went out to the country. And Gwenynen Gwent continued very, very fervently for that which she considered traditional culture of the Welsh, right up to the year of her death in 1896, 'a very fiery Welshwoman', said one of her acquaintances. But in truth, as to her lineage, she was English. Thank God for those of that nature.'
From an article found on the internet


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