linda_joyce | Entries tagged with st. fagan

It was a beautiful St. David's Day here in South Wales and once I had washed up , picked my meds from the Doctors and moved some bags of 'clean' rubbish to the recycling depot I decided to take the afternoon off and go some where. The some where turned out to be the Museum of Welsh Culture at St. Fagan's. I have about 120 photos but the bulk uploader is not loading for me at Photobucket so here is a taster. These are clickable thumb nails as I have left the pictures very large as you need it for some of my shots.

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They have a photography shop there where you can dress up and have your photo taken as your Great Grandmother might have looked, then they print it out in sepia for you at an extortionate price which I forked up. the photographer was kind enough to this photo with my own camera for me. Having stared at a portrait of my great grandmother Thomas(my mother's mother's mother) every day of my life while getting dress(it hung in my bedroom)until Gran died and I could take it down and hide it I know I do actually look very like her. I would be even more like her if I were dressed all in black.

Some of you who share clara_swift as a friend will have seen her photos of the medieval church paintings she found on one of her days out, beautifully faded by the centuries.
St. Fagan's has recently added a medieval church to its collection and as they found some badly damaged medieval paintings as they were dismantling St. Teilio's they decided to reconstruct it as it would have been 700years ago when it was first built.