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Feb 22, 2012

Our oldest HiPoint yet, 450 million years ago

HiPoints normally relate to the last few centuries, but now we've added one for a site that dates back 450 million ...

HiPoints normally relate to the last few centuries, but now we've added one for a site that dates back 450 million years. The rocks on Conwy Mountain are remnants of volcanic activity back then. More recently they helped give Britain its daily bread when war threatened to disrupt flour production. Read all about it here

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Aberystwyth’s phoenix from ashes

Oct 3, 2023

Demolition beckoned after Aberystwyth’s old town hall, dating from the 1840s, was badly damaged by fire in 1957. But noted architect Sidney Colwyn Foulkes was brought in, and you can now use your smartphone to compare his …

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Anti-vaxxers in 1876

Sep 25, 2023

During a smallpox outbreak in the Cwmbrân area in 1876, several parents were charged with not allowing the local doctor to vaccinate their children at his home, Cwmbrân House. One mother said the house, at Five Locks, was too far from the family home …

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Death at the Llangollen Canal

Sep 16, 2023

As you visit the peaceful, wooded setting of the Llangollen Canal at Pentrefelin you can now scan HistoryPoints QR codes to discover how the wharf there was still in industrial use when one of its cranes collapsed in 1877. The crane was loading slate slabs ...

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