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Bridgend's hi-tech demo of 1790

Mar 17, 2014

The Spinning Jenny was the bee's knees when the Glamorgan Agricultural Society set up its model woollen mill in Bridgend in the ...

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Lord didn't have mercy on Aber

Mar 12, 2014

Residents of Ceredigion have never forgiven Lord Beeching for shutting the railway from Aberystwyth to Lampeter and Carmarthen, but his name ...

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Vicar's tithe-ing troubles in 1887

Mar 9, 2014

When the vicar of Llandrillo-yn-Rhos, near Colwyn Bay, rejected farmers' demands for relief from tithes (church taxes), one of his churches was burnt down, troops ...

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