The Bradwan homepage

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Welcome to the websites of Glyn Watkins, poet, writer and showman.

News and future events

NEXT SHOW: Pie & Priestley Shows 13th Sept (Priestley's birth date and my 50th birthday). It will be at the Gatehouse, Highgate (a J D Wetherspoon house) very close to where Priestley lived. I will be doing reading from the works of Priestley, including When We Are Married; English Journey; and his WWII, BBC Postscript, broadcasts. Tickets are £15 for the show, a meat & potato pie (or veggie pie), mushy peas and mint sauce. Tickets are already available to personal callers at the pub, or from me (e-mail me with link at top or bottom). They will be available from this site, with PayPal, soon.

Home of the iPie

25th Anniversary of the Bradford City Fire

Those of us left to remember
Should always remember
Those who are not here
To share the wealth
we have gained

Written about the 11th May 1985. I was on the Bradford End.

Some of the shows Glyn Watkins has written and produced:

• Little Britton Festival. Celebrating Thomas Britton, the musical coalman of Clerkenwell Green •
• Uncut Fringe page. Including the International Ilkley Moor Baht 'at Day and The UK Hat Throwing Championship, page. •
• J.B.Priestley Night (Pie & Priestley) •
• Curry & Kipling Rudyard Kipling •
• Crawley, Carr & Kipling (not the cakes) -
• Bard of the Red Beard •
• South Milford Poet of Fate Show. plus Old Rhyme Music Hall •
• Walburgas shows Annual event on 25th Feb.•
• Hayseed Dixies Loopallu Poet in Residence •
• City Till July •
•Yorkshire Steam and Midland Lines. Lines on the railways, with Mark Neale.•

Walburgas 10 card now here

Bradwan 2009 Christmas card now here

Save Our Odeon, my view of holes to come
Website Note My blog appears first on my bradwan blog site but I do run a shadow blog site. This is now on wordpress I have few visitors at present, so I would be grateful if you visited, especially if you use wordpress yourself and are willing to link.

I am still having many issues with virgin media worst broadband in the world. Change of provider should result in no change to these sites, but once it happens it may mean there will be a lack of new stuff for a while, once I go for better.

Walburgas 09 a triumph! Universal praise Walburgas 09 card and poem The bradwan 2008 Christmas card and verse, linking with text of verse and some background is now on its own page.

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My hand painted t-shirt linking to large image

One of my many hand painted t-shirts.

This site is a member of WebRing. To browse visit here.

This website was built in a rush for the launch of my first book Walburgas forgetting - forgiving in June 04. and has grown in a 'close to the edge of chaos' way.