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Dec 23, 2012

A window for each day

The offices of the Barry Dock Railway were designed to broadcast the success of Britain's largest integrated ...

railway and docks business. This company's brisk coal trade soon outgrew the biggest enclosed dock in Britain, and the office building - with 365 windows, one for each day of the year - was opened in tandem with the second dock at Barry. After fire damage and restoration, the building's now occupied by Vale of Glamorgan Council. To read more, scan the QR codes in the reception area or on the tourist information board outside. Or click here

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Towyn floods illustrated

Oct 9, 2024

Hundreds of people have read our information about the 1990 tidal flood at Towyn since we placed QR codes on the sea wall near the funfair in 2012. Now we've updated our web page about the sea defences with photos of the floodwater ...

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Porthgain's steam railway

Oct 2, 2024

Today Porthgain is a rural Pembrokeshire idyll, so walkers on the coast path may be surprised when they scan new HistoryPoints QR codes which reveal the extent of the steam railway that once served a granite quarry. Before the first steam ...

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Llanengan's isolated chimney

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The tall chimney which stands in isolation on a hill above Llanengan, near Abersoch, may puzzle some visitors, but now you can scan HistoryPoints QR codes nearby to discover that it was built for a Victorian lead mine which had a steam-powered ...

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