Frederick James Hando MBE (23 March 1888 – 17 February 1970) was a Welsh writer, artist and schoolteacher from Newport. He chronicled the history, character and folklore of Monmouthshire, which he also called Gwent, in a series of nearly 800 newspaper articles and several books published between the 1920s and 1960s.
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After a number of years, Hando married again to Daisy, a staff member at his school. The couple soon had a son, Robert. FredHando unlocked our prison and...
Machen, as a pen name.[citation needed] Local historian and folklorist FredHando suggests Machen's early interest in the occult came from an article of...
Parliament. Construction began in 1794, and the local author and artist FredHando records that the building "was completed within two years". The building...
Llareggub Hill in his Under Milk Wood. Local historian and folklorist FredHando tells of the "Mountain Organ" produced by the wind on the southern slopes...
visited by approximately 70,000 people every year. The Monmouthshire writer FredHando records the tradition of Tewdrig, King of Glywysing who retired to a hermitage...
the account of the Book of Llandaff. In 1958 the writer and illustrator FredHando recorded a story told to him by an old woman, long resident in Mathern...
1941 for the installation of the gates, although FredHando records this as happening in 1961. Hando is supported by the school's historian, H. A. Ward...
covered in more anecdotal form by the Monmouthshire writer and artist FredHando, who chronicled the highways and byways of the county in some 800 newspaper...
crafts and visual arts. Writing in 1951, local historian and folklorist FredHando described the traditional journey through Caerleon of the Mari Lwyd or...
made him abandon what would have been his second novel. At a local level FredHando (1888–1970) chronicled and illustrated the history, character and folklore...
with thyme or another fragrant herb and held by a skewer." Similarly, FredHando in his 1944 book "The Pleasant Land of Gwent", reproduces an illustration...
Greene (trained as an engineering draughtsman at Newport College of Art) FredHando (writer, artist and schoolteacher) Lyn Harding (actor) Anne Hegerty (TV...
equalled in any other part of Monmouthshire." The author and illustrator FredHando also visited and wrote an article on the manor and folly for the South...
Henry V in their French wars and the Monmouthshire author and artist FredHando records the legend that Henry V's crown jewels were kept at St Pierre...
Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld Rhys Davies – Black Venus FredHando - The Pleasant Land of Gwent Jack Jones - The Man David Alun Lewis - The...
Monmouthshire Sketchbook by the author and artist FredHando for the South Wales Argus between 1922 and 1970. Hando wrote that the cross was one of the only two...
broken font was lying on the floor, among the weeds and elder trees". FredHando, the Monmouthshire writer and illustrator, who visited about 150 years...
been called the "most crooked church in Great Britain." Local historian FredHando (1958) calls it "the Church below the Landslide" and describes the chancel...
in 1876 after being accused of polluting Mounton Brook. According to FredHando one of the mills produced the paper used for Bank of England notes, but...
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