Qualla: Abermawr https://qualla.com/abermawr en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/abermawr-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Abermawr https://qualla.com/abermawr Abermawr: Introduction https://qualla.com/abermawr/ Photo credit Martyn Harries, CC BY-SA 2.0. The morse keys clicked inside a corrugated iron hut, and somewhere in the building a young telegraph operator transcribed the first words to cross from the New World to the Old. The hut stood at Abermawr, a curve of shingle on the Pembrokeshire coast where the cliffs drop low and the wind has nowhere proper to gust. From here, in 1866, the messages went down a wire to London, and the world got a little smaller. The hut is still there. A family lives in it now.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/abermawr-wp/gchr-abermawr-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Abermawr: The Storm of 1859 https://qualla.com/abermawr/ Photo credit Markus G. Klötzer, CC BY-SA 4.0. On 25 October 1859, the same Atlantic gale that built the modern pebble bank at Abermawr destroyed the ship Charles Holmes off this coast. All 29 people on board drowned. Their bodies washed up on the shingle here and at neighbouring Aberbach, and Captain C. H. N. Bowlby was buri...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/abermawr-wp/gchr-abermawr-the-storm-of-1859.mp3 0:06 2 full Abermawr: Brunel's Cable https://qualla.com/abermawr/ Photo credit Morhua, CC0. Isambard Kingdom Brunel changed his mind about Abermawr twice. First, in the 1840s, he surveyed it as the western terminus of the South Wales Railway, the place where London-bound trains would meet Atlantic ships. He rerouted the line to Neyland instead. Then, in 1866, Abermawr g...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/abermawr-wp/gchr-abermawr-brunels-cable.mp3 0:06 3 full Abermawr: Slow Goodbye https://qualla.com/abermawr/ Photo credit Markus G. Klötzer, CC BY-SA 4.0. A second cable came ashore at Blackwater in 1880, and Abermawr settled into a quieter rhythm as a relay station. During the First World War a small detachment of soldiers guarded the site, alert to a Britain whose conversations with America now ran along these few thin threads of...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/abermawr-wp/gchr-abermawr-slow-goodbye.mp3 0:06 4 full Abermawr: Walking the Path https://qualla.com/abermawr/ Photo credit Thruxton, CC BY 3.0. Today Abermawr is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, protected for the wildlife that thrives where shingle meets marsh meets ancient oakwood. Walkers on the coast path drop down off the headlands and step out into the bay between Porthgain and Abercastle, the air thick with s...

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