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David Holmes

All pictures copyright John Pring/DNS

A narrow road behind a row of grey-brown brick cottages, with cars parked along one side
Brookside Row in Cwmtillery, where David Holmes was living at the time of his death.
Two former pit head wheels, encased in stone, with a row of cottages in the background.
Two former pit head wheels, with Brookside Row in the background.
A greenhouse and two stone sheds at the bottom of a garden, with a fir covered hill in the distance
The shed at the bottom of the garden where David Holmes kept his Citizens Band radio
equipment
A path bordered by bare trees beside a lake
Cwmtillery Lakes, where David Holmes used to walk his cocker spaniel.
Cars driver along a road with a the tree-covered hillside on the left and a fir-covered hillside in the distance
The road near Aberbeeg ambulance station where David Holmes suffered his fatal heart attack.