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History with your Swansea cockles

Mar 24, 2019

The next time you buy cockles and laverbread in Swansea Market, scan the HistoryPoints QR codes on the cockle stalls with your mobile to discover the remarkable tradition of women selling cockles there. Some routinely walked ...

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Talybont's drawbridge tradition

Mar 16, 2019

The 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 ...

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Novelist's furtive beginnings

Mar 12, 2019

Roberta 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 ...

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