Doldowlod: Air crash
On 16 September 1943 an American Boeing B-17F Fortress Sondra Kay returning from a mission over Bordeaux ran into very bad weather. In bad visibility the aircraft flew into Rhiw Gwraidd at Upper Cilgee, Doldowlod, near Rhayader. The crew of ten was killed.
[Doylerush]
[Doylerush]
Doldowlod House
James Watt, the great Scottish steam engineer, bought a farm here and over the years added to it to create an estate with lands on both sides of the river Wye in the counties of Radnorshire and Breconshire. His son developed the original farmhouse in 1827, adding a wing in the tudor style matching Watt's home at Aston Hall. In 1878 the original farmhouse was replaced with a further range in the Elizabethan style by S.W. Williams local architect and surveyor.
[RT; Haslam]
[RT; Haslam]
Dolforwyn Castle
See Betws Cedewain
Doyle, John (c.1868)
". . . formerly a Bookseller in the town of Builth, aged about 30 years, 5 feet 8½ inches high, light complexion, light hair, no whiskers, rather slightly built, is an Irishman and has the Irish brogue; was for about twelve months employed at Swansea, under Blakie and Co. as a book hawker; was last heard of at Birmingham. He has left his wife and two children chargeable to the Parish of Builth, in the Union”.
[Taken from the Poor Law Unions Gazette 3 Oct 1868, copy in File 3M/25]
[Taken from the Poor Law Unions Gazette 3 Oct 1868, copy in File 3M/25]
Dyfed-Powys Police
Formed in 1968 with the amalgamation of the former police authorities of Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire with the Mid-Wales Police Authority (which covered the counties of Breconshire, Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire). [G.R.]
[P/CON/1-2]
[P/CON/1-2]
Dyke, Edward (d.1950)
Descendant of Sir John Meredith of Brecon (High Sheriff of Breconshire in 1762 and of Radnorshire in 1780, knighted in 1769 and a tablet to his memory was erected in Brecon Cathedral), whose sister Margaret married William Dyke in 1771 (it is claimed that it was William Dyke who fired the first shot at Waterloo in June 1815 [though most historians ascribe the first shot to the French artillery]). Mr Edward Dyke lived at Coch-y-dwst near Llandrindod Wells and died on 28 April 1950
[Newspaper cutting, un-named, but dated 6. 5. 1950 ].
[Newspaper cutting, un-named, but dated 6. 5. 1950 ].