Visitors to Port Talbot can view Welsh Martyr, Dic Penderyn's grave .
The
people of Merthyr Tydfil doubted Dic Penderyn’s guilt and 11,000 signed a petition
for his release. However, the British Government needed a scapegoat and he was
found guilty and hanged in Cardiff
at the age of 23 on August 23rd of that year. After his death he was
treated as a martyr in Merthyr and across Britain. In 1874, a man named Ianto Parker confessed on his
death bed, in the United States, to the Reverend Evan Evans that he stabbed Black and
then fled to America fearing capture by the authorities, thus exonerating
Dic Penderyn. Another man named James Abbott, who testified against Penderyn at
the trial, also later admitted that he lied under oath after pressure from Lord
Melbourne of the British government.
The pictures below are of CASTLE STREET. Just OUTSIDE the gates of the church the National Theatre have been busy constructing the 'UNDERPASS' (see bottom pic)
