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Magazine focuses on HistoryPoints

Apr 24, 2014

The May 2014 edition of Family Tree magazine contains a four-page article about HistoryPoints, with some sample QR-code labels for readers ...

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Shipwrecked on arriving home

Apr 21, 2014

The Porthmadog schooner Owen Morris had spent seven months away from home, crossing the Atlantic twice, when it passed Criccieth in ...

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Crisps and a pint for my bull, landlord

Apr 18, 2014

A farmer in New Quay, Ceredigion, was so angry when the breathalyser arrived in 1967 that he rode his bull to the pub in protest. The bull went in ...

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Purple Plaque for deaf pioneer

Apr 26, 2024

A Purple Plaque was unveiled today at the former home in Rhyl of Dorothy Miles, a pioneer of sign language poetry and TV programming for the deaf, among other achievements. HistoryPoints recommended her house for a plaque after placing QR codes ...

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First comprehensive school

Apr 19, 2024

Rural Anglesey may seem an unlikely place to start overhauling the UK's education system, but if you use your phone to scan the new HistoryPoints QR codes outside Ysgol Syr Thomas Jones in Amwlch you'll discover that ...

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Discord at Nightingale Row

Apr 11, 2024

The lack of road access to Nightingale Row, near Cwmbrân, caused many problems for residents - including death. The 20 houses were built by an ironmaster and could only be reached via the towpath on the opposite side ...

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