 The memorial was originally erected by Sir Pyres William Mostyn Baronet to commemorate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee 14 August 1897.Frank Nicholson, of Gwespyr, the famous Welsh baritone, a National Eisteddfod winner, and a wireless singer, was attacked and killed by a stallion while walking home on a footpath leading from Talacre Abbey (known by the locals as "the park") to Gwespyr on Monday 8 October 1928.Three weeks later a woman was seriously injured by the stallion at the same place.