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Nov 3, 2023

Dinas Powys WREN remembered

Teenager Mary Cooke worked for a fur coat company, sometimes modelling coats, before the Second World War shattered her family's happiness. One night a bomb dropped near the family's garden in Dinas Powys, wrecking the ...

house windows. Mary joined the Women's Royal Naval Service, becoming a Writer at a barracks in Kent, where she was known as "Cookie". She enjoyed dancing and films in her time off, but eventually contracted tuberculosis and died at home, aged 23. You can now see pictures of Mary and read her story by scanning the HistoryPoints QR codes near Dinas Powys war memorial (they're on the information board) with your smartphone, then clicking on the soldier icon beside Mary's entry in the SWW list - or by clicking here.

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Purple Plaque for deaf pioneer

Apr 26, 2024

A Purple Plaque was unveiled today at the former home in Rhyl of Dorothy Miles, a pioneer of sign language poetry and TV programming for the deaf, among other achievements. HistoryPoints recommended her house for a plaque after placing QR codes ...

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First comprehensive school

Apr 19, 2024

Rural Anglesey may seem an unlikely place to start overhauling the UK's education system, but if you use your phone to scan the new HistoryPoints QR codes outside Ysgol Syr Thomas Jones in Amwlch you'll discover that ...

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Discord at Nightingale Row

Apr 11, 2024

The lack of road access to Nightingale Row, near Cwmbrân, caused many problems for residents - including death. The 20 houses were built by an ironmaster and could only be reached via the towpath on the opposite side ...

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