Wales Antiques

This blog will from time to time complement my Wales Antiques Web Site and its printed companion. The guide is a developing listing of general suppliers of antiques and collectables in Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Powys and beyond; it now including auctions and in the future specialist heritage related attractions. Over 23 years it has become an essential resource for anyone with an interest in buying and selling antiques and collectables in West Wales and Beyond. If you would like to know more visit the site here.

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Paul Williams Photo Gallery; Portraits

I was asked this week to provide some examples of  my photography portraiture.

Here’s what I posted in a bit of a hurry.

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Amanda Glover: 1958-2009

I’m posting today a photograph of a dear and beautiful friend who died last week after a long illness.

She would not thank me for the image but I think that anyone who knew her will recognise this joyful and typically ‘Mandy’ expression.

A tender soul who suffered too much.

My heartfelt condolences go to her family and her friends.

Amanda Glover

More pictures of Amanda Glover here at Ian Willson’s blog…

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Photo: River Teifi in flood at Llechryd

Another wet and windy day here in Cardigan. Clearly not as wet and windy as Cockermouth where hundreds are destined to be in temporary accomodation for months. So thanking my lucky stars, my journey home from viewing Stephen Jones’ Henllan Salerooms, allowed me time to stop on photograph the River Teifi. The broad winding stretch underneath the not so new castle at Newcastle Emlyn was happily colonised by sea gulls foraging for who knows what. At Cenarth Falls the spate was so great that the falls seemed to have disappeared; and down stream below the indomitable bridge the water was surging, twisting and doing its best to be thoroughly frightening. Towards Llechryd (home of my former band, the Llechryd Light Orchestra) the river course had spilled its banks and then some. The road was clear but the bridge was under though cars could splash across.

Anyway it was dusk and the skies were clearing enough to show a rosy glow and a skein of geese like me, driving themselves home.

In Flood; The River Teifi
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Stupid Crap Dull Meaningless Pictures



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The questioned posed by Bob Machin (\’When did taking stupid, crap, dull, meaningless etc. pictures become seemingly the only necessary qualification for being an exhibited photographer?\’) in response to Sara Ramos\’ Invasion of Everything That Was Restrained warranted much discussion on FaceBook.

So now\’s YOUR chance; one week, one image. The image must be colour, must have 50 words minimum explaining its meaning, and have a title that compounds the crime.




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The Longest Crawl Christmas Promotion

As far as I’m aware I appear in three books pseudonymously. In Mr Ian Marchant’s The Longest Crawl and Parallel Lines: Or, Journeys on the Railway of Dreams I appear under my ‘punk’ name, as photographer Perry Venus (a not very funny spoonerism) and in Real Aberystwyth I get to be the even less imaginative ‘Steve’.

For the Longest Crawl we were privileged to be guided around Lampeter’s Pubs by the then Mayor, Mr Hag Harris; and although this is not a picture of himself it does remind me of a rather jolly evening.

A Satisfied Customer; the Ivy Bush Lampeter 2004

Mythologised, if not immortalised, in print, and now digitalised by Whole Story Audio Books on the CD reading of The Longest Crawl.

As their Press Release so succinctly puts it;

Whole Story Audio Books – publishers of unabridged audio books – are offering The Longest Crawl for under £20 as part of their special Christmas promotion. Visit www.wholestoryaudio.co.uk for details.
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