Garw Gleanings

These comic newsy items appeared in the Glamorgan Gazette over many years a century ago, contributed by a Blaengarw schoolmaster under the pen-name Lloffwr Arall. The persons written about were never named but most readers would have known who the item referred to. During WW1 in particular they often provided light relief and a contrast…

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Luther Stephens: Lloffwr Arall

Luther Stephens was born in 1888 in Llanelli. His father was a Brewery Dray man. Luther became a student teacher and got a job as an assistant teacher at Blaengarw Boys School and took lodgings  at Victoria St, Pontycymer. At the outbreak of WW1 he was the regular Garw Correspondent for the ‘Glamorgan Gazette’. Under…

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