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commemorates the fact. Though located in Builth Wells, he covered large parts of Mid-Wales and was involved in press photography, publishing postcards as well as the stock in trade studio portraits and weddings. He was also appointed the official photographer by
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Abery photographed many aspects of rural life, many of which photographs have now disappeared. He died on 20 January 1948, and his ashes were scattered in the sea off
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