AN appeal for information about an invalid carriage led to its original owner being identified as Emrys Williams, a former Cambrian News writer.

Roland Malcolm appealed to Cambrian News readers for information about this vehicle, and a number of people got in touch to name the owner and explain how he once wrote ‘Wireless Whispers’ for the paper.

Now, a relative has been in touch to shed more light on the man.

David Martin has been in touch with us to say Emrys Williams was his uncle and lived with his brother Dewi Williams at 48 Portland Street, Aberystwyth.

His father was David Rowland Williams, pastor at Salem Chapel.

“Uncle Em wrote a weekly column for the Cambrian News under the name of ’Peter’, called Wireless Whispers from the 1920s to the 1960s,” said David.

“My father, Gwyn Martin, took the column over for a while when Emrys passed away.”

“The Cambrian News wrote: Emrys Williams, an Aberystwyth character who was badly injured when he was knocked down at the age of 18 while riding his bicycle when he worked for Barclays Bank in Birmingham.

“The accident ruined a promising career in athletics and sadly “Peter” contracted rheumatic fever, confining him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

“He was a familiar sight in his straw sun hat, playing chess or gossiping on the Promenade near the bandstand.

“He was also a regular at the Town Football Club’s Park Avenue ground.

“He wrote ‘Wireless Whispers’ regularly between the 1920s and 1960s and - thanks to the devoted love and care of his family and friends - he was over 70 when he died.”

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