Book on Welshpool personalities

 

The 20-page Welshpool Personalities No 9 is now available, and is the latest instalment researched and edited by Roger L. Brown who has chronicled the town’s history for many years.

 

Among the srticles features is one on William Claxton Peppe who moved to work as a rice planter in the borders between India and Nepal, and is believed to have discoevered the bones of Buddha during an archaeological excavation!

 

Another article recounts how John Armishaw became the first policeman in Welshpool in 1835 and from some of his surviving letters describes his work in the town.

 

Further articles deal with the last coracle fisherman on the Severn, who lived at Leighton and the visit of two men from Welshpool to the Great Exhibition of 1851, who walked to Shrewsbury, took a coach to Stafford, and then caught the train to London which took 13 hours to arrive at its destination!

 

The book is available from the Welshpool Tourist Information Centre or from members of Welshpool Rotary Club. All profits go to one of International Rotary’s concerns, Water-Aid.