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The origins of Chartism in Wales can be traced to the foundation in the autumn of 1836 of Carmarthen Working Men's Association. [28] Carmarthen gaol, authorised by the Carmarthen Improvement Act 1792 (32 Geo. 3. c. 104) and designed by John Nash, was in use from about the year 1789 until its demolition in 1922. The site is now taken by County ...
More images: The Picton Monument: Picton Terrace, Carmarthen: 1847-49, restored 1988: F E H Fowler & J L Collard Obelisk on pedestal: Stone: 25m high Grade II: Q29488272 [4] [5] [6] More images: William Nott, 1782-1845. Nott Square, Carmarthen: 1851: Edward Davis Statue on pedestal: Bronze and granite: 4.5m high Grade II* Statue cast from ...
Ffos Las racecourse was built on the site of an open cast coal mine after mining operations ceased. Opened in 2009, it was the first racecourse built in the United Kingdom for eighty years and has regular race-days. [46] Machynys is a championship golf course opened in 2005 and built as part of the Llanelli Waterside regeneration plan. [47]
Although removal was on the agenda at Cardiff, where a statue of Picton and his portrait were taken off display, [5] in the case of the Carmarthen obelisk the report did refer to an explicit attempt to remove it from the townscape, but instead gave details of an online petition which objected to the monument's commemoration of Picton. The ...
The Carmarthen Public Rooms were built in 1854, [1] with the intention to create public rooms were first expressed by Dr David Lloyd in 1839. [ 2 ] Commonly referred to as the "Assembly Rooms" the building was designed by James Wilson (architect) of Bath [ 3 ] on the site of the Scurlock family town house, where Sir Richard Steele , founder of ...
Carmarthen Castle (Welsh: Castell Caerfyrddin) is a ruined castle in Carmarthen, West Wales, UK. First built by Walter, Sheriff of Gloucester in the early 1100s, the castle was captured and destroyed on several occasions before being rebuilt in stone during the 1190s.
These included the gaols built in Carmarthen and Cardigan by John Nash and the gaols at Caernarfon (1793), Ruthin (1785) and Flint (1775) by Joseph Turner. [138] Most of these prisons were closed in the 1870s, but the Ruthin gaol, now used as the Denbighshire County Record Office is remarkably well preserved.
The site selected had been occupied by the old Carmarthen gaol, which had originally been designed by John Nash and built on part of the Carmarthen Castle site in 1792. [2] [3] The construction began with the demolition of the old gaol which took place in 1936. [4]