Mary Hopkin
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Mary Elizabeth Blodwen Hopkin, credited on some recordings as Mary Visconti from her marriage to Tony Visconti, is a Welsh singer best known for her 1968 UK number one single "Those Were the Days". Sh
Hopkin at the Eurovision Song Contest 1970
Hopkin in 1982
Album cover of Y Caneuon Cynnar – The Early Recordings
Pontardawe
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Pontardawe is a town and a community in the lower Swansea Valley. It had a population of approximately 7,172 in the 2021 Census for Pontardawe Parish, and forms part of the county borough of Neath Por
Mary Hopkin
…Days". She was one of the first artists to be signed to the Beatles' Apple label. Mary Elizabeth Blodwen Hopkin was born into a Welsh-speaking family in Pontardawe, Glamorgan, Wales. She took weekly singing lessons as a child and began her musical career as a folk singer with a local group called the Selby Set and…
Looking north over Pontardawe
The Swansea Canal and the spire of the Church of St Peter
Pontardawe from the Graig above Alltwen
Three bridges at Pontardawe. The old stone bridge was built by William Edwards of Eglwsilan