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Braving the anti-suffragist mobs
Jun 11, 2019Suffragist leader Alix Minnie Clark endured the taunts and attacks of mobs opposed to women getting the vote, sometimes outside her Newtown home, but she continued campaigning throughout the ...
[More]Speeding to the grave in 1901
Jun 7, 2019Speeding on the roads has killed countless people in the age of the motor car, but Bethesda publican David Williams came to the same end with his horse-drawn "car" in 1901. He had been punished several times ...
[More]A bridge too far in Cardiff
Jun 1, 2019James Street in Butetown is now just an ordinary road where it passes the police station, but a giant steel swing bridge used to bisect it - and there were many grumbles about traffic being stopped for ...
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