Wolfgang von Tirpitz lunched with Mr and Mrs Winston Churchill after tennis in summer 1913. The following summer, soon after war broke out, he was captured and sent to Llansannan (now in Conwy county) with fellow German officers. Winston ...
Ethel Lina White of Abergavenny was such a talented writer of thrillers that she was compared in her day to Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers. Alfred Hitchcock was among the directors ...
On 6 July 1899 a collective funeral was held in Deiniolen, near Llanberis, for most of the nine children and three parents who drowned when a boat capsized off Pwllheli. The slate-quarrying community was shocked by the accident, which ...