Primroses beside the old canal at Pembrey in April 2006…
It’s April now, and icy as midwinter here in Wales. Spring’s growth has been set back a few weeks and my thoughts turn to an earlier and warmer Spring, when we walked beside the old canal at Pembrey, near Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.
Footpath beside the old canal at Pembrey…
These pictures were taken in an area called Ffrwd Farm Mire in Pembrey in April 2006, when I was looking for places associated with my paternal ancestors.
Blackthorn in bloom beside the old canal at Pembrey…
My great grandmother Ann Peregrine, whose parents James and Mary came originally from Llangendeirne, was born here in 1851.
Lichen on a tree beside the old canal at Pembrey…
Her address then was Canal End, so when I found an old canal in Pembrey I assumed this was the canal whose end she lived at. However, I later found there had been at least three canals in Pembrey. This was the last, while Ann had been born alongside the second canal, much nearer to the shore, in houses sometimes called Glo Caled or Stone Coal Houses. But more of that, along with more pictures, on my gallery page…
For now, this post features a few of my favourite images from that gallery page.
Watery trees in the old canal…
Fungi on a tree beside the old canal at Pembrey…
Are those green shoots flag irises coming through?
Hopefully warmer Spring days will soon return again here in 2013…
The Squirrelbasket 
A lovely looking walk – and I wish we had that feathery kind of lichen where I live!
We have lots of the feathery stuff but I have never found proper pixie-cup fungus. This site has wonderful images of lichen I can only dream of!
Best wishes 🙂
Agree about the Silverside site. Have known it for a while. Can sit and browse – or see how similar some lichens are – and dispair!
Stunning Pat. Can’t beat walking in those ancestors shoes … one February when it was freezing (not above 0) I took Pete and the boys to Tinterne so that I could do exactly that! Thanks for sharing those stunning photos x
Ah yes, your “Rose” family, wiremakers from Tintern in the 1600s. Well, I suppose the ruined abbey was there then – in fact newly ruined, I guess! History suggests Monmouthshire wasn’t in Wales at that time anyway. I think it slipped through the net in 1542 (see Wikipedia) and wasn’t properly in Wales until 1974.
I always feel very close to my roots when walking around Poole 🙂
Ah, that explains another branch that is in Gloucestershire! Might be able to make the link. Haven’t done any FH for a few years now… so thanks for that link!
It’s such a shame spring is taking so long to arrive this year. I enjoyed walking in the footsteps of your ancestors.
Sarah x
And as I write there are still flurries of snow in the air here in Cardiff!
Thanks for the kind comment – and I am always enjoying your Down By The Sea blog, too 🙂