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Red Warth Bay: it's all in the name

Aug 19, 2016

Red Wharf Bay, Anglesey, is popular with visitors but few of them probably know that the name is an old corruption of Red Warth Bay. Unless, that is, they've spotted the new HistoryPoints ...

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A bark door exit in Brecon

Aug 16, 2016

Dogs which interrupted the sermon at St Mary's Church in Brecon would be seized with special tongs and ejected through a purpose-built dog door, which you can still ...

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Killed by a pinprick

Aug 11, 2016

Sarah Franke of the Old Vaults Inn, Ruabon, pricked herself with a pin in 1891. She suffered blood poisoning and died, aged 47. Her husband Oscar was an immigrant ...

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