George IV Arch and Salt Island, Holyhead
Conwy landlord's dry Sunday sin
Sep 5, 2015An hotel landlord in Conwy was one of the first to be fined after boozing on Sundays was banned in Wales in 1881. Bona fide travellers were allowed to consume ...
[More]Niches for knees
Aug 31, 2015When you walk towards the impressively large church in Corwen, Denbighshire, look to your left to see gravestones with distinctive semicircular niches. Grieving relatives ...
[More]Pit claimed 3 lives before it opened
Aug 22, 2015The site of Cwmcarn Colliery's pithead is now a forest glade, but in 1876 it was a site of tragedy as the bodies of two men were removed from the embryonic shaft. They had ...
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