Laura Ashley
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Laura Ashley was a Welsh fashion designer and businesswoman, who founded the eponymous fashion retailer. She originally made furnishing materials in the 1950s, expanding the business into clothing des
1970s printed cotton dresses by Laura Ashley exhibited at the Fashion Museum, Bath, in 2013
Floral Design with Peonies Lilies and Roses for Spitalfields Silk by Anna Maria Garthwaite 1744
Merthyr Tydfil
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Merthyr Tydfil is the main town in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Wales, administered by Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. It is about 23 miles north of Cardiff. Often called just Merthyr, it is
Laura Ashley
…designs – often with a 19th-century rural feel – and the use of natural fabrics. Ashley was born at her grandmother's home, 31 Station Terrace, Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. She was raised in a civil service family as a Strict Baptist. The chapel she attended in Dowlais (Hebron) was Welsh language and although she…
Hen Neuadd y Dref Merthyr
Richard Tevithick monument on Pendarren Road, Merthyr Tydfil
High Street, Merthyr Tydfil geograph.org.uk 356862
Pen-y-Darren locomotive (replica)