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Dec 31, 2023

When soldiers heckled clowns

Will Catlin's famous pierrot clowns were a big attraction on Colwyn Bay seafront, but one performance in 1915 was interrupted by locally-billeted soldiers from South Wales who asked why the performers hadn't joined the army. Around 7,000 soldiers and civilians massed there the next ...

evening, but the feared riot didn't break out because an army officer had ordered Will to cancel that night's show. For more about the pierrots, use your smartphone to scan the new HistoryPoints QR codes on the sea wall near the Parisella ice cream outlet - opposite where the clowns' Arcadia theatre used the railway embankment for tiered seating. Or click 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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