Site of Rhos-on-Sea pier

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Pit claimed 3 lives before it opened

Aug 22, 2015

The 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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U-boat's wartime visits to Llandudno

Aug 14, 2015

One hundred years ago, a German submarine came right up to the shore of the Great Orme, Llandudno, on three successive nights to try to collect three officers who had escaped ...

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Former doorway to higher education

Aug 11, 2015

The isolated portico of the old Penrhyn Arms Hotel makes an odd sight at the roadside in Bangor, but what makes this stonework special is that the University College ...

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