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One Saturday morning in May 1891, in the unchurched and sprawling industrial area of East Moors, Splott, Cardiff, two men could be seen putting up a large tent.

The older man of 45, John Pugh, was unused to swinging a sledgehammer and he had lumbago for a month. The younger man, Seth Joshua, who was in his early 30s, was adept at the job. Just as they finished, one of the rough characters of the area passed by. He was curious as to what was going on.

In his 1960s' biography of the evangelist Billy Graham, John Pollock says that Graham began his ministry in Britain in the South Wales town of Gorseinon.

He has since corrected that. The first two meetings were held in October 1946 at the Gospel Temple in Bristol, which is now demolished.