Llanfairpwll railway station
Killed by a pinprick
Aug 11, 2016Sarah 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 ...
[More]Suffragette fears at Eisteddfod
Aug 2, 2016When the National Eisteddfod of Wales was held in Abergavenny in 1913 there were concerns that suffragettes might use the event to protest for women's votes. A hayrick near the maes in ...
[More]The king's double in North Wales
Jul 25, 2016Llandudno newsagent GR Thompson looked uncannily like the reigning monarch, King Edward VII. So much so that he had his own portrait printed on the backs of postcards ...
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