adorns the frontage, its plasterwork complete in every detail and carefully painted. Inside is a beam where soldiers scratched their names in 1817, two years after their regiment helped to win the Battle of Waterloo. To read more, scan the QR codes in the window, or click here
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 ...
[More]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 ...
[More]Taff’s Well railway station was called Walnut Tree Junction from 1858, and now the name has been revived by a café. The southern area of Taff’s Well was known as Walnut Tree long before …
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