A CENTURY ago a community of Belgians made a home for themselves in Llandrindod Wells. The First World War waged across Europe and by 1914 more than 250,000 sought refuge in Great Britain. Llandrindod Wells resident and quaker Charles Benyon organised the Belgian Relief Committee and by January 1915 the town was home to 20 refugees who were given Templefield House. The owner of the house, one Mrs Coleman, was the mother of soldier Louis Coleman, who died in Belgium three months later. Local people donated food to the Belgian Relief Fund while the refugees also earned their own keep by giving French lessons, making baskets and wood carvings.