Saturday 6 September 2014

Saturday 6th September 2014: "Resistance" walk in the Olchon Valley

This was part of Hay History Weekend 2014Resistance is a novel by Owen Sheers, set in the Olchon valley in the 1940s after a fictional invasion of the UK by German forces. After reading Of Wet and of Wildness by Odie Robey, an account of real life in the Olchon Valley in the years immediately after WW2, I referred to places and events from that text as well as discussing Resistance. We included lunch at White Haywood Farm and an opportunity to see Pauline Goodwin's WW2 mini-museum there. Pauline cooked us a lovely dinner and talked to us about the roles of various local residents during WW2 - thank you very much to her and to Dave Bennett for organising the event.

Walkers at Upper Blaen (Sarah Lewis' home in the novel Resistance):


3 comments:

  1. THIS WAS MY FAMILY HOME FOR MANY YEARS THE CHILDS FAMILY MANY HAPPY MEMORIES THERE FOR ALL OF US AND STILL HAVE LOADS OF PICS FROM WHEN WE LIVED THERE

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  2. Hello Ian, In case you pick this message up, do get in touch, we are now farming at the Blaen and slowly repairing the house.

    My email is jlister@shipton-mill.com or phone 01666 505050

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  3. Will be nice to see it being used as a family home again sad to see it as it is now as Ian has said it was a family home my grandparents and uncle who have all saddly passed away and are buried in llanveynoe lived and farmed the blaen for many years

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