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Bethan Jones visits the Green Flag Award winning Morgan Jones Park

(24.05.2009)

On the 24th May 2009, Bethan Jones and her parents Gillian and Gareth came all the way from Bracknell in Berkshire, to have a look at Morgan Jones Park in Caerphilly. Bethan had been doing research for a school project about South Wales, and discovered the Park.

Bethan is the great, great niece of Morgan Jones, whom the Green Flag Award winning Park in Caerphilly is named after.

Bethan has been researching her Great great Uncle and has discovered he was educated at Reading University, and became a teacher by profession. He first entered politics as a Glamorgan County Councillor. In the First World War he was imprisoned as a conscientious objector.

Morgan Jones was elected Member of Parliament for Caerphilly at a by-election in 1921, following the death of Labour MP Alfred Onions. Jones held the seat until his own death in 1939, shortly after returning from a trip to the West Indies his successor was fellow conscientious objector Ness Edwards.
Morgan Jones served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education in both the first two Labour Governments, 1924 and 1929-1931.

Bethan said on leaving “We will now visit the park regularly as it’s very beautiful!”