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May 13, 2012

We're now on track, literally

The Great Orme tramcars have been ferrying people to the summit for over a century. Now passengers ...

can read all about the tramcars and how they work by scanning the HistoryPoints QR codes inside the vehicles (look behind the driver's position at each end of each car). Or you can click here. For info about the tramway infrastructure, scan the QR codes by the entrance to Victoria Station, Llandudno.

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Capel Curig's bounty

Jan 21, 2023

Centuries before the Levelling Up Fund and other grants for under-privileged areas, Queen Anne set up a bounty scheme to enable poor clergymen to receive steady incomes. Capel Curig's churchwardens successfully applied in 1740 and acquired Bryntyrch ...

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Whale-bone cutting in Pembs

Jan 13, 2023

The diary of Abiel Folger, one of the American settlers who developed Milford Haven, records that her husband Timothy cut whale bone in his last years. A relative of Benjamin Franklin, he was a whaling-ship captain but was ostracised in Nantucket for ...

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People power in Abergavenny

Jan 5, 2023

The survival of Abergavenny's large parish church is down to people power - in the 16th century. It belonged to a Benedictine priory but townspeople were already worshipping in part of it before King Henry VIII ordered the ...

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