Memorial near Machynlleth to the Welsh broadcaster Wynford Vaughan-Thomas. SCO 8683
In 1967, after leaving the BBC, he was one of the founders of Harlech TV (HTV), now ITV Wales, being appointed Director of Programmes, as a frequent TV broadcaster himself throughout his early career with the BBC he had adopted the required BBC accent of the time but employed his more natural native Welsh accent to even better effect in his later career. He wrote numerous books, many on Wales and a favourite subject of his, the Welsh countryside. In May 1970, when President of the Council for the Protection of Rural Wales, he officially opened the Pembrokeshire Coast Path in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park at its southern end, at Amroth, Pembrokeshire. His wartime overview and experiences, and his successful broadcasting career later, enabled him to view life and its vagaries with what he called 'pointless optimism' - a perspective that certainly served him well. Memorial toposcope, September 2008He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1974, and raised to Commander (CBE) in 1986. He died in Fishguard in 1987. A memorial was constructed after his death, completed and unveiled in 1990 near Aberhosan in the form of a toposcope looking out over the rolling hills and mountains of Wales, with a depiction of Vaughan-Thomas pointing towards Snowdon, Wales' highest peak, which is just visible on a clear day.
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Location: Aberhosan, Machynlleth. Powys. Montgomeryshire. Wales. United Kingdom.
Photo credit: © David Gowans / Alamy / Afripics
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