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Bangor's MN sacrifice revealed

May 14, 2018

Research by the Merchant Navy Association (Wales) has revealed 18 additional Bangor men who died in the Second World War as a result of serving on merchant shipping. They are not named on the city's war ...

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Brecon baker's brushes with law

May 7, 2018

A Brecon baker landed in court several times before, during and after the First World War on various charges, including cruelty to the horse which delivered his bread. The driver of the cart, William Howcroft, was ...

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When cannons stirred tithe protest

May 1, 2018

Hundreds of police and soldiers descended on the village of Mochdre, near Colwyn Bay, in 1887 to accompany tithe collectors. Lookouts who had kept watch from a nearby hill fired cannons to alert residents, who ...

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