'Gilmore' lands community champion prize
Delighted to hear that 'Gilmore' Jones won the Community Champion award at the Llanelli Star community awards night at Parc y Scarlets last night. Doubly delighted as I was one of the people who nominated him. Here's what I said in the nomination - Community champion Thomas Henry Gilmore-Jones. Thomas Henry Gilmore-Jones is better known to one and all in Llanelli as ‘Gilmore’. If you’ve shopped in Llanelli for the last 30-plus years, then you will recognise Gilmore as a familiar face. He managed the old Cooperative store when it straddled the old town centre precinct and Murray Street (anyone remember the famous pedestrian footbridge which spanned Murray Street?) When the store closed to make way for town centre redevelopment, ‘Gilmore’ could have found himself redundant and consigned to the history books in Llanelli. But Gilmore is as tough as Llanelli steel and tinplate and bounced back to manage the new St Elli Shopping Centre. The success of the shopping centre is there...