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Wales v England at the mill

Jul 11, 2019

There was trouble at t'mill in Newtown in 1875 after English workers were brought in to work new weaving looms. They resented Welsh employees being trained on the machinery, and violence broke out. The chief constable ...

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All craters, great and small

Jul 4, 2019

Walking the Wales Coast Path near Marros, Carmarthenshire, takes you through a minefield, but fear not - the explosives were detonated at the end of WW2 when invasion was no longer a threat. Many people pass the craters ...

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Wed-lock in the police station

Jun 28, 2019

A butcher in Bethesda, Gwynedd, was so unimpressed when his wife got drunk one night in 1906 that he took her to the police station and locked her in a cell. When the sergeant came to investigate ...

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