HistoryPoints News

Sep 20, 2013

St Asaph's musical heritage revealed


If you're in St Asaph for the North Wales International Musical Festival, be sure to take a smartphone or tablet and ...

follow the new 'Words and Music' trail around the city. The HistoryPoints QR codes will remain after the festival, so you can find out at any time the connection between St Asaph and the wartime hit song 'Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag', who wrote the 'Missa Sancti Asaph' and 'A Good Cup of Tea', and why composer William Mathias is buried outside the cathedral. You can even listen to some of the city's musicians on your phone as you go! You can start by scanning any of the QRs on the circuit. To follow the tour on your home computer, click here.