Notorious House Parties at Tredegar House: 1934-1938

Tredegar House : Weekend Parties, Frolics and Fun

 Evan Morgan, Lord Tredegar's

House Guests  1934-1938 

A NEW BOOK FROM WILLIAM CROSS

In its heyday of the 1920s and 1930s the country house weekend house party was an example in Britain of the 20^th century oozing class and propping up the flagging class structure. It was a ritual full of  frivolity.   Often, as in the case of South Wales, there were hundreds of families within a stone’s throw of the large mansions houses (like Tredegar House) who were struggling in poverty. [i] Two different worlds in the same town.

Evan  Morgan, the Lord of the Manor at  Tredegar  House, Newport  was one of  those who  staged  these large, lavish and lazy  weekend parties, whilst in the nearby hamlets of  Pill and Duffryn the unemployed tried to make ends meet.  In history,  the era was dubbed  “The Marching Thirties”.    

Evan’s parties are a  legend,  a  part of  the Evan - legacy  between 1934 and 1949  when he reigned supreme  as  the  last  Viscount  Tredegar .

In this book Newport Historian William Cross reveals the hundreds of people who were guests of Evan Morgan, Viscount Tredegar.

The book is available direct from the Author and on E-BAY and AMAZON.

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williecross@aol.com

An illustrated talk is available on the book.

  

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[i] A good example of this comes from Christmas 1934  when  a concert was staged at the Olympia Cinema in Skinner Street , Newport on behalf of the Mayor of Newport’s Distress Fund for the poor in the town.