Anecdote 1

In a book called Carmarthen and its neighbourhood by William Spurrell from 1860 in a list of local events the writer notes that in 1818, Sept. 6th, Sunday. John Elias was preaching in Water-street Chapel to a very large congregation and a man called Shon y 'Sanau (Johnny Socks) gave a false alarm that the gallery was coming down, and a most fearful confusion ensued, several persons being hurt, but no lives lost.