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The start of the Commonwealth Games will remind older Cardiffians of the city's hosting of the equivalent event in 1958. Many others associate the 1958 games with one of its legacies - the Empire Pool. The modernist building was a city-centre landmark until its demolition in ...
[More]Wigs with curls down to the shoulders were still fashionable for men in the 18th century, when James Jones ran a business in Abergavenny which bleached goat hair for the town's wig-making industry. It all started with the king of France's hair loss when ...
[More]The dry summer of 1868 damaged industrial production in North Wales, including at the Pentrefelin slate slab works, near Llangollen. There wasn't enough water in the river Dee to power the various mills in the area which still ...
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