The Brecon Beacons National Park celebrates its recent success at becoming one among only a handful of areas worldwide to be granted the status of an International Dark Sky Reserve. What do you see when you look up into the night sky? Stars? Darkness? Well, did you know that when you do, you’re enjoying some […]
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A Tale of Two Canals
Before the railways, barges carried coal and iron down to Newport and Cardiff, but some ventures were more successful than others. Helen Morgan from Abergavenny Local History Society reports As the Industrial Revolution built up steam, so did the clamour grew for better transport from the mines and foundries in the Eastern Valleys. By the […]
Golden Anniversary for Three Peaks
This year’s Three Peaks Trial takes place on 23rd March. Chris Barber provides further information. The Three Peaks Trial is an organised walk arranged each year in March by the Cardiff Outdoor Group. Designed to test the walker’s map reading skills and endurance, the event was first held in March 1963 and this year the […]
Synergy Grow in Strength with New Members
Abergavenny male close harmony choir ‘Synergy’ have exciting times ahead. Following the successful auditioning of 11 new members plucked from 50 men of varying singing experience and ability who participated in a Free Singing Course funded by Abergavenny Town Council in October last year, they were welcomed into the choir with the presentation of their […]
Zimele’s Skirrid Toddle Challenge
Family walk up the Skirrid in aid of Zimele UK. Contact Rebecca on 01873 855 126 or email zimele_uk@yahoo.co.uk for an information pack. Location: Skirrid Mountain Date: 2013-06-08
A Walk of 3,000000 steps
On 11th April this year – the day after Keith Chammings’s 70th Birthday – he will open the door to his home in Abergavenny, walk out, turn right and continue walking for more than 80 days over a distance of 1,400 miles until he reaches The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain… The Camino […]
Walkers are Welcome in Abergavenny
By now, readers of the Focus may have heard that Abergavenny has recently been awarded the National Walkers are Welcome award, an initiative which first began in 2007 to encourage towns and villages to be ‘welcoming to walkers’. Abergavenny joins only ninety-nine other towns in the UK to gain this top walking accolade. How could […]
Fit for a King
The Kings Arms Hotel, located in the heart of town in St John’s Square, has been a familiar Abergavenny landmark since the sixteenth century. Big changes are afoot and now, under the expert management of award winning hoteliers Jon and Sacha Child, it’s set to become one of the central jewels in Abergavenny’s crown. I […]
New Beginnings: Part Two
Part two of our serialised story by Queenie Young The sewing machine made a scary noise, then it jammed and then the needle broke. A line of blood trickled down Lucy’s hand. She puffed out her cheeks and sat back in her chair. She felt like crying, not because of the broken needle, or the […]
Win Afternoon Tea for Two at The Angel, Abergavenny
Who doesn’t like tea? Who doesn’t like cake? Who doesn’t yet ‘Like’ The Abergavenny Focus on Facebook? Well, between now and 15th April, log onto our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/theabergavennyfocus and hit that little like button in the corner of the page, and you’ll automatically go into the draw to win a voucher for Afternoon Tea […]
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