Crickhowell & District History Society is now closed but its website still exists. Click here to visit the website.
HiPoints collection:
Former Queen Coffee Tavern - philanthropists set up the temparance house and public library in 1884
Porthmawr Gate House - built in 15th century to protect a fortified manor house
Former home of embezzling clerk - he fled to Canada after his fraud was spotted, but detectives tracked him down
As well as founding the NHS, Aneurin ('Nye') Bevan improved housing standards for working people. Now you can scan HistoryPoints QR codes at the Cae Bricks housing estate in Beaumaris to discover how he was so impressed with the architecture ...
[More]Aberystwyth's lifeboat station is obvious to visitors and residents, thanks to its harbour-side location. Its Victorian predecessor is more obscure - well away from the sea. Now our QR codes on that building, in Queen's Road, enable anyone to discover its ...
[More]After visiting the Shrewsbury Flower Show in 1910, the train journey home came to a sudden and shocking end for Giovanni Tedaldi - one of a succession of Italians who ran the cafe in Abertillery Arcade - and his wife Mary. In darkness, the train ...
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