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Penrhyn quarrymen's payday extra

Mar 18, 2016

Workers at the Penrhyn slate quarry, near Bethesda, used to knock off early on payday to walk to the central pay office, but after steam train technology arrived in the 1870s the pay packets ...

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Hero surgeon of Wind Street

Mar 12, 2016

The building which surrounds the Wind Street entrance to Salubrious Passage, Swansea, has a small inscription to note that surgeon Thomas Williams built it in 1803. He saved a teenage girl's life ...

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Thief took gold from police house

Mar 6, 2016

PC Gardner of Eglwysbach, Conwy Valley, returned from his beat one Sunday in 1887 to find that a burglar had stolen gold worth £8 from the village's police house, along with ...

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