Elmira/Myra Evans was the daughter of Captain Thomas and Mary Rees of New Quay. She was a local historian and artist, who had also written a children's operetta. Her portrait of Dylan Thomas can be found in D. N. Thomas (2000) Dylan Thomas: A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow p104, Seren. Her husband, Evan Jenkin Evans (1882-1944), had been professor of physics at Swansea since 1920. For more on Myra and her work, see Myra Evans
New Quay's harbour and pier date from the early 19th century. See chapter 2 of S. C. Passmore (2012) Farmers and Figureheads: the Port of New Quay and its Hinterland, Grosvenor. They are both still in use today (2022).
Laugharne's harbour had vanished under saltmarsh and silt long before Thomas' time. Ever since the 17th century, “…the incremental growth of the salt marsh deprived the town of both beach and harbour and landlocked its castle.” See S. Read et. al. (2021), The geomorphology of the Taf Estuary at Laugharne harbour lost to salt marsh See also Laugharne harbour history
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See D. N. Thomas (2000) p57 on Plas Gelli and the film crew at Gelli in August 1942. The film comes to an end with a panoramic sweep of Cardigan Bay from Pengraig cliff above New Quay, followed by a shot of Carreg Walltog rock on the shore below. You can view the film here: Green Mountain etc
Nautical School website. See also a letter from Dylan Thomas to Donald Taylor, 26 October 1944, in the Collected Letters of Dylan Thomas in which he notes he had been asked to find films for the pupils.
New Quay's harbour and pier date from the early 19th century. See chapter 2 of S. C. Passmore (2012) Farmers and Figureheads: the Port of New Quay and its Hinterland, Grosvenor. They are both still in use today (2022).
Laugharne's harbour had vanished under saltmarsh and silt long before Thomas' time. Ever since the 17th century, “…the incremental growth of the salt marsh deprived the town of both beach and harbour and landlocked its castle.” See S. Read et. al. (2021), The geomorphology of the Taf Estuary at Laugharne harbour lost to salt marsh See also Laugharne harbour history
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Data from the National Maritime Museum, and available on Ancestry online, and reproduced at Llareggub 1939 War Register
58 sailors active and retired. Data from the 1939 War Register and available online at Findmypast and reproduced at Llareggub and the 1939 War Register
For photographs of Majoda, see Majoda photos. There is an architect's drawing of the room plan of Majoda made in 1945 in D.N. Thomas (2002) The Dylan Thomas Trail, p98, Y Lolfa
Evelyn lived in Traethina. (Register of Electors, 1945). There is more on Thomas's friendship with Vera at Vera and Dylan. Vera and Evelyn's mother, Margaret Phillips, had been born in Llanarth, the next village to New Quay. See Thomas (2000) pp. 27–28.
He and his wife Olive lived in Tylegwyn, New Quay, for much of the 1939-1945 war. (Register of Electors, 1945). There’s an interview with Olive in D. N. Thomas (2004) p. 100 Dylan Remembered 1935-1953, vol. 2, Seren. For the family tree linking Dylan and Ira, see Ira and Dylan family tree For more on Dylan and Ira Jones in New Quay, see the index of D. N. Thomas (2000) A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow, Seren. See also Dylan’s comment on Ira Jones in his letter about New Quay to Margaret Taylor, 29 August 1946 in Collected Letters
Analysis of Llareggub sketch, Google Sites. First published on Discover Dylan Thomas: the official Dylan Thomas website, September 2021.
Annie Davies was the wife of Thomas Ogmore Davies whose drapery shop, Bon Marché, stood at the top of Church Street, next to the Queens Hotel. There's a period photograph of Bon Marché here: Bon Marche
Eluned Pritchard-Jones was the wife of Barclays bank manager, Richard Pritchard-Jones, Bank House, Church Street. (1945 Register of Electors.) There's more on her household fastidiousness in the Wikipedia entry for Under Milk Wood, which draws on an account of Mrs Pritchard-Jones provided by her daughter: C. Edwards-Jones (2013), New Quay Wales Remembered, pp. 60-61, Book Guild Publishing.
Always known as the Sailor's Arms locally, and in newspaper reports and in some census returns. See Sailor's Arms See also D. N. Thomas (2000) A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow pp. 212-213, Seren, for more on the Sailor's Arms.
First Voice: “The windy town is a hill of windows…..” See W. Davies and R. Maud, eds (1995), Under Milk Wood: the Definitive Edition, p59, Everyman. For two photos of New Quay as a "hill of windows", see hill of windows with another photo in D. N. Thomas (2000) A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow, p. 206, Seren.
For more on New Quay names in the play, see Thomas, D. N. (2000), op. cit. pp. 206–216, and online at New Quay names
D. N. Thomas, (2019) Llareggub and the 1939 War Register, first published in 2019 on Discover Dylan Thomas, the official Dylan Thomas website. It's also online at Llareggub/1939 War Register
