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Powys, Wales

Experience of schoolgirl refugees recreated at Powis Castle

During the Second World War, Powis Castle provided refuge to evacuees from the Ashford Welsh Girls’ School in Middlesex where George Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis was a governor. Now, 80 years after the war began, this medieval castle is working with Theatr Clwyd

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