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Here are interesting stories that have been told by others.

 

Auschwitz

- GHOST ECHO OF THE DARK PAST -

 

Jill was eight years old and in a few days time the Berlin wall would start to be built (20 August 1961). The journey from Wales U.K. was a long one to Poland for three children, mother and father in a single car. But Jill absolutely loved travelling and car trips were her favourite window to the world. Victor her father had to drive far to take his family to his birthplace of Katowice Poland to visit his large family which he had infrequently visited since wartime...Plane travel was expensive and at the time flights to Poland fairly rare.

On arrival Brother Alois had taken a shine to Victors automobile and asked if he could drive it. So the next day an ad-hoc countryside drive was arranged, with Alois at the wheel and Jill begged to go along leaving the other children to play with their cousins.

Visiting many familiar places around Katowice Jill loved her father describing the areas where he grew up. Many twists and turns in the road and then for her father an unusual unfamiliar road was turned into.

Before any words could be said about the new route Jill started to scream uncontrollably from the rear seat.

Let me out!... Let me out!'... In an hysterical tone.

The brothers stopped the car and tried to pacify the little girl. She leapt from the car and started to run in the opposite direction to the main highway, her father managed to restrain her and get her back to the car. Alois had already tuned the vehicle around and then picked the pair up. Jill stopped the most unusual display as soon as she realised the vehicle was heading back to the highway.

'Has she ever behaved like that before?' asked Alois.

'No... Never' replied Victor... 'She loves the car I can't think what's wrong?'

'Do you know what is at the end of that road? asked Alois shaking his head... 'Oswiecim' (Auschwitz, a wartime Nazi death camp).

Victor just looked at his brother.Neither said another word (or Jill) until they returned home. A very strange event.

Jill today (although somewhat older) still vividly remembers the incident. But all she can remember of her hysterical behaviour that day in the car is that suddenly she could not see, or think properly and that everything went sort of black. And she has never had any sort of experience like that since.

 

Did Jill that day have some sort of an affinity with past events that day?

Or maybe just picked up on some sort of spiritual side... You decide.

 

 

- The motorbike Pope -

 

Pope John Paul II

The young Roman Catholic Priest dressed in leathers and roared around Katowice Town (Poland) on his fast motorbike. Also an accomplished skier, he loved to be the somewhat unconventional daredevil rebel.

However the townsfolk respected and admired the priest and after some of the people visited him at home, they were horrified to discover that he had no bed and could not afford to buy one, sleeping everynight on a cold uncomfortable floor.

To help the priest the townsfolk held a 'whip-around', collecting money to buy him a bed which they quickly raised. He was presented with this unaccustomed luxury of a present and was overwhelmed by the parishioners generosity.

The following week he was visited again at home to see how he was getting on. The visitors were surprised when they found him again sleeping on the floor. Sheepishly the priest had to admit that he no longer had the present.

'A young couple have just got married and have not a groszy (Polish money 1 Zloty=100groszy) to their name, only the love of each other. So they have need of a bed more than I and I gave it to them'.

The priest had total admiration and gratitude for the gift from the townsfolk but chose to dispense with comfort in knowledge that he was helping others. Even leather clad motorbike riding rebels can have the utmost good intentions, faith in their God and the respect of the community.

The Priest had been promoted for his general goodness, and lived under the title Pope John Paul II 265th holder of the office the first being St Peter.

 

Pope John Paul II picture and autograph.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chartist Reforming body 1839 and the Green house public House

The Working Class Reforming body 1837-1848 demanded the peoples charter for greater equality. This was, Annual Parliaments, equal electoral districts, universal male suffrage, a secret ballot, removal of the property qualification for MP's and the payment of members of Parliament.

The aim was to present a reformist charter of equality and National petition to Parliament.

In November 1839 Ironworkers and Mineworkers marched on the Town of Newport Monmouthshire to protest at the arrest of chartist leader Henry Vincent. Three separate groups of workers armed themselves and assembled in the hills. However many of the marchers had stopped at the Green House Inn on the way to the town to take refreshment. The 'one for the road' drink became many and the majority of the force never reached Newport deciding to remain at the Inn. Only the group led by John Frost (a draper and ex mayor) reached Newport and gathered around the West-Gate Hotel.

Troops hiding within the Hotel opened fire and many protesters were killed. Had the full force arrived all together the protest may have achieved it's aim peacefully with the soldiers holding fire due to the mass of numbers. This led to riots in other towns throughout Britain. In 1848 with Revolution sweeping across Europe as a whole the chartist's reforms were peacefully accepted to pacify the working class and in the end the greatest changes in Britain's political history came about by reason and discussion not force of arms.

 

Actor Ray Milland and the Lower New Inn public house

The actor was accustomed to using many different names to blend into one of his many film roles. Ray Lewis... (This second name borrowed from his Auntie to blend into the local Welsh community) regularly returned to his origin's and frequented the Lower New Inn Public house Pontypool Monmouthshire where he and his brother went for a drink while Ray was visiting at his brothers home.

Ray had worked in his youth and well before any fame at Pontymoile steelworks Pontypool Monmouthshire, a little piece of his history left out of his later biographies. He held a good job and position, being one of the better paid steelworkers, but he had always wanted to become an actor. So when he packed his bags and headed for the star lights he had to change his name. The fact that he worked in the mills and held the position of second leading hand lead to him choosing the name 'Milland'... Although to live up to the romantic image fostered on him by the film studios, he always gave a different, more acceptable source for the name.

 

 

 

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