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May 2, 2012

Welcome to our Chinese visitors

Britain is welcoming growing numbers of Chinese visitors, and now we're doing our bit to ...

ensure they can learn more about the history of places they visit in North Wales. Mandarin - 普通话 - is the eighth language to feature on HistoryPoints. You can read one of our translated pages here - which is all about this place: 英国最小的房子，下东门街，康威.

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Cardiff's own 'Little Ireland'

Mar 19, 2023

Our new QR codes in Tyndall Street, Cardiff, reveal to passers by how the area to the north - now occupied by office blocks - was previously the community known as 'Little Ireland'. The housing, which you can see in an aerial photo when you scan ...

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Rovi the 'Welsh wizard'

Mar 13, 2023

By day Ifor Parry was a printer in Caernarfon, but his magic tricks and unique brand of entertainment took him around the world and earned him the Magic Circle's title 'King of Cards'. Now a slate plaque and accompanying HistoryPoints QR codes have ...

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Brecon-born doctor honoured

Mar 6, 2023

A purple plaque has been unveiled in Brecon town centre marking the birthplace of Frances Hoggan, who became only the second woman in Europe to gain a medical doctorate. You can scan the HistoryPoints QR codes on the Nicholls shop window below ...

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