I pass where his ashes were scattered on my way to work. I will post a picture of the monumment but here are a few pictures showing the area.JPB wrote:Nye Bevan, one of my all-time favourite figures from the party's history, probably didn't waste his cash in licenced premises. Sensible fella.
This picture is taken just inside Powys (Or Breconshire as it was in Bevan's day). It's about five miles north of Tredegar town centre and was a place where Bevan would take a walk. The trees are near the watershed between the Sirhowy valley and the Usk system (This is where the monument stands). This is very much on the border of what was industrial south Wales and rural mid Wales.
This is looking back down the Sirhowy valley towards Tredegar. Bevan's memorial was behind me when this was taken.
Looking down into Cwm Pyrgad, which runs into Duffryn Crawnon, which flows into the Usk at Llangynidr. It's about five hundred feet down into the top of the Duffryn and that valley drops another five hundred feet in the five miles of it's length. The Usk valley, on the other hand, drops only four hundred feet in thirty miles or so to the sea. Like the Wye and Severn, it flows more gently west to east, before swinging south down into the Bristol Channel.
The Aneurin Bevan stones, on the watershed between the Sirhowy and Ebbw valleys. It's about half a mile from my house and on the opposite side of the road to the garage where I get my MOTs - http://sirhowygarage.co.uk/. They have an MGA, Healey 100/6 and a Frogeye Sprite. Oddly enough, it was the first place I got petrol for the Midget, as it was nearly empty when I bought it. The pumps have long gone.
) sell the thing off to some quatari for a new hotel/house & relocate the scrounging mps to somewhere where house prices etc are cheap..