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Talybont's drawbridge tradition
Mar 16, 2019The modern steel drawbridge over the canal at Talybont-on-Usk may look like a modern invention, but if you scan the new HistoryPoints QR codes near the bridge with your mobile you'll see a photo of the wooden drawbridge ...
[More]Novelist's furtive beginnings
Mar 12, 2019Roberta Leigh was a prolific writer of romantic novels, many published by Mills & Boon, and her first attempts at writing took place in torchlight under the bedclothes at St Mary's Convent School in Rhyl. She had been evacuated ...
[More]Swansea slum to Swedish palace
Mar 1, 2019Lillian Davies began her life in what was considered to be slum housing in Garden Street, Swansea, now the southern area of the Quadrant shopping centre. Before her death in 2013, she lived in royal palaces for decades ...
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