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Oct 17, 2023

Cardiff park's Roman villa

Trelai Park in Ely, Cardiff, may look like an ordinary park as you enter, but if you scan the new HistoryPoints QR codes at the entrances you can read about the Roman buildings which stood there, including a villa, and see a photo of a mortarium ...

fragment found there in 1894. A mortarium was a bowl with embedded grit for mixing food. Our Trelai Park web page also explains that the park was previously the venue of the Welsh Grand National, complete with grandstand. You can view it by clicking here or scanning the QR codes with your mobile

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Jazz singer's WW2 loss

Dec 8, 2024

Patti Flynn was familiar in Cardiff and further afield as a jazz singer and radio broadcaster. Less well known was that she lost her father and two brothers in the Second World War. as you can now read by scanning the HistoryPoints QR codes ...

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Marvel of Moelfre mariner

Nov 27, 2024

Anglesey mariner Thomas Lewis had almost starved to death when rescued from a boat drifting on the ocean 150 years ago today. He and two others had to consume blood and livers from fellow boat occupants who had died during their ...

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Dutch gables in rural Llŷn

Nov 22, 2024

Visitors to Llanengan, near Abersoch, might be surprised to see an old house with Dutch-style gable walls. Now HistoryPoints QR codes are on hand to explain that the building was originally the National School, associated with ...

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