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 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.
CONTACT THE AUTHOR BY E-MAIL
williecross@aol.com
An illustrated talk is available on the book.
[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.
