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I used to irritate my mother by telling everyone I was born in the Graig workhouse. She was quick to add I was born on the maternity ward and as it was a few months before the introduction of the NHS she had to pay for her care. My father’s mother (who died when I was three) was Katherine (Kitty) Jones nee John who nursed in the Graig hospital from the late twenties, to the early forties. Many of the stories in my “Hearts of Gold” series were related to me by my father when I asked him about her. Fascinated by the history of the workhouse and Pontypridd it seemed logical to draw on both when I was commissioned to write a book set in the thirties because “If you don’t write it now no one ever will.

My mother was born in Allenstein East Prussia in 1926. Like most surviving East Prussians she lost everything except the clothes she was wearing when the Russians invaded in January 1945. She was fortunate to escape with her life. My father, Glyn Jones, was a Welsh soldier serving in the British sector in Germany when he met Gerda who sought refuge t

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Catrin Williams’s biography

Catrin Williams is a well known artist. She creates welsh inspired art in a variety of different media.

Catrin Williams was born in Wrexham in north wales. She grew up near bala on a very high mountain farm.

Catrin Williams went to a primary school called sarnau. For a term she went to a small school in the middle of the countryside. Her secondary school was called ysgol Berwyn which is in bala. She did all her subjects apart from English in the medium of welsh. After secondary school Catrin did a foundation course in bangor and then she went to a art college in Cardiff.

Catrin Williams started painting at ten years old. She had an eisteddfod in sarnau with a competition for art and she won first prize. After that she thought shew as going to be a artist.

Catrin Williams first achievement in art was when she sold her first painting. Her first piece of art was hung in college when she had her degree show. In college she had to do a show of her paintings. It was all based on her farm community and her village.

Catrin Williams studio is in pwllheli

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Catrin Finch

Welsh harpist

Catrin Ana Finch is a Welshharpist, arranger and composer. She was the Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales from 2000 to 2004^[1] and is visiting professor at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and the Royal Academy of Music in London. Finch has given recitals at venues throughout the world.

Early life

Catrin Finch was born in Llanon, Ceredigion, and began learning the harp at the age of six. Her mother is German and her father English, and she is a fluent Welsh speaker.^[2] By the age of nine, she had passed her grade VIII harp examination.^[3] She was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at the age of ten, becoming the youngest of its members to play at The Proms.^[4] She studied harp with Elinor Bennett, who would become her mother-in-law, before attending the Purcell School, a specialist music school for children in Hertfordshire. She continued her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London where she studied harp with Skaila Kanga.^[5]^[3]