Welsh War Memorials

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Dolgarrog dam disaster 90 years on

Nov 2, 2015

Today's fine weather could not be further removed from the stormy conditions which precipitated the Dolgarrog dam disaster on 2 November 1925. Ten adults and six children ...

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Remembering the flannel factory flood

Oct 30, 2015

When a dam broke at Cwmcarn, in the Gwent Valleys, in 1875 the resulting torrent was powerful enough to demolish the flannel factory where John Hunt and his family ...

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Mining town's pioneer church

Oct 21, 2015

The Church in Wales separated from Britain's established Anglican church in 1920, but another five years passed before it built its first church, in Llay, near Wrexham. The ...

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