Saturday, 8 July 2017

70) Watching the Lions v. All Blacks - Twelve Knights pub, Margam

I sketched this surreptitiously during the second test between the British Lions and the All Blacks, in the Twelve Knights Pub in Margam. This is only one small part of  large pub restaurant. If you're wondering whence it derives the name, there was a legend which persisted up until the 19th century that Robert Fitzhamon, a Norman follower of William I, conquered the whole of Glamorgan with just 12 knight followers. Fitzhamon existed, and most of the knights ascribed to him also definitely existed. However the legend is just that, a legend, with little or no literal truth behind it. 

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