History & Memories

All posts on "North East Wales Weblog" in the category: History & Memories

• Gresford Disaster: A tragedy still being felt 75 years on - 11:11 UK time, Wednesday, 16 September 2009
• 100 year old photos of local landmarks found in U.S archives - 15:13 UK time, Monday, 27 July 2009
• Photos: Kinmel Park Camp riots of 1919 - 14:50 UK time, Wednesday, 15 July 2009
• Site changes [pt.4] - 10:12 UK time, Tuesday, 26 May 2009
• Rebranding Rhyl using sun, sea, sand and 60s sex appeal - 08:16 UK time, Friday, 8 May 2009
• Newsletter [07-05-09] - 15:33 UK time, Thursday, 7 May 2009
• Drovers' roads and digging up the past the old fashioned way - 09:33 UK time, Wednesday, 29 April 2009
• Newsletter [22-04-09] - 09:27 UK time, Wednesday, 22 April 2009
• Photos: Locos steam into Llan - 08:14 UK time, Tuesday, 21 April 2009
• Charles Darwin's local links - 15:15 UK time, Tuesday, 14 April 2009
• Wrexham's Hippodrome demolished - 16:54 UK time, Monday, 6 April 2009
• Lurve dance, seaside sideshows and newsletter [25-03-09] - 11:03 UK time, Wednesday, 25 March 2009
• Before they were famous and newsletter [19-03-09] - 11:31 UK time, Thursday, 19 March 2009
• Roadworks drive you potty - 10:25 UK time, Tuesday, 17 March 2009
• Doing 'Something Funny for Money'? - 11:03 UK time, Thursday, 12 March 2009
• Quote of the day: Before players kissed and hugged - 13:21 UK time, Wednesday, 11 March 2009
• Make mine a pint of Wrexham - 09:24 UK time, Thursday, 5 March 2009
• Jobs, festivals and this week's newsletter [04-03-09] - 13:05 UK time, Wednesday, 4 March 2009
• Miners' audio archive, St David's Day parade and newsletter [25-02-09] - 09:34 UK time, Wednesday, 25 February 2009
• Big cats, burlesque dancing, newsletter and podcast [20-02-09] - 10:35 UK time, Friday, 20 February 2009
• Podcast [30-01-09] - 14:51 UK time, Friday, 30 January 2009
• Markets, tripe and Communism - 08:29 UK time, Wednesday, 21 January 2009
• Podcast and newsletter [16-01-09] - 12:03 UK time, Friday, 16 January 2009
• Site changes [pt.3] - 10:26 UK time, Tuesday, 13 January 2009
• Podcast [09-01-09] - 11:18 UK time, Friday, 9 January 2009
• Nadolig Llawen - Merry Christmas - 12:39 UK time, Tuesday, 23 December 2008
• The end of the village pub? - 11:08 UK time, Tuesday, 25 November 2008
• 'What once was great - now lost in time', Ben's quote of the day - 10:07 UK time, Tuesday, 11 November 2008
• Why we love Moel Famau so... - 10:14 UK time, Monday, 10 November 2008
• Uncovering the past - 12:04 UK time, Thursday, 6 November 2008
• Erddig homes saga continues - 12:13 UK time, Monday, 3 November 2008
• Denbigh Hospital, and there's no such thing as bad publicity - 12:00 UK time, Monday, 3 November 2008
• 24 villagers get naked, Feeder gig photos, and other links [22-10-08] - 09:25 UK time, Wednesday, 22 October 2008
• Will patients be turning in their graves as Denbigh Hospital hosts TV's Most Haunted? - 12:32 UK time, Thursday, 16 October 2008
• We're on the telly, our contributors are on the radio and you can have a go - 08:14 UK time, Thursday, 9 October 2008
• Rayon Queens, newsletter and podcast [03-10-08] - 11:04 UK time, Friday, 3 October 2008
• Rhyl funfair footage, Wrexham record beaten and links [01-10-08] - 10:35 UK time, Wednesday, 1 October 2008
• When Penycloddiau and Moel y Gaer were at the heart of local life - 08:24 UK time, Wednesday, 24 September 2008
• Watch as secrets revealed - 09:37 UK time, Friday, 19 September 2008
• Choking on the fumes - memories from the factory floor - 14:30 UK time, Thursday, 4 September 2008
• Riding pigs, newsletter and podcasts [22-08-08] - 13:46 UK time, Friday, 22 August 2008
• 'I was Slade's minder', newsletter and podcast [25-07-08] - 13:12 UK time, Friday, 25 July 2008
• 'Famous Wrexham Gingerbread' - first cooked up in 1870 - 08:26 UK time, Wednesday, 23 July 2008
• Should we move Deeside into England? - 09:10 UK time, Monday, 21 July 2008
• 50 inch knickers? That's nothing! - 10:26 UK time, Tuesday, 15 July 2008
• Mining the past and Deeside's annual spectacle, 'The Fall of Rosita' - 08:57 UK time, Tuesday, 15 July 2008
• WWII veterans reunited for first time since parachuting from stricken bomber - 13:58 UK time, Monday, 14 July 2008
• Time travel, newsletter and podcast [11 07 08] - 12:04 UK time, Friday, 11 July 2008
• Fixed! - 07:50 UK time, Thursday, 10 July 2008
• Nuns run B&B, newsletter and podcast [04-07-08] - 09:04 UK time, Friday, 4 July 2008
• Returning to Rhyl after 20 years - 14:09 UK time, Wednesday, 2 July 2008
• Newsletter and podcast [27-06-08] - 08:39 UK time, Friday, 27 June 2008
• BBC Radio Wales and BBC Merseyside simulcast - 14:41 UK time, Tuesday, 24 June 2008
• Newsletter and podcast [20-06-08] - 09:01 UK time, Friday, 20 June 2008
• PoW Cryil survived Hiroshima, Charlie beat Auschwitz and soldiers' letters from the frontline - 08:56 UK time, Thursday, 19 June 2008
• Stone Age site found at Borras quarry - 09:54 UK time, Wednesday, 18 June 2008
• Mentioned in dispatches - stories from the frontline - 13:02 UK time, Monday, 16 June 2008
• Old photos, Wrexham brewery heritage and a window into the past - 15:33 UK time, Thursday, 29 May 2008
• Where shall we spread your ashes? - 11:01 UK time, Friday, 23 May 2008
• Cefn without the works? - 08:04 UK time, Thursday, 22 May 2008
• Liverpool or Cardiff? - 14:26 UK time, Tuesday, 20 May 2008
• Education's wasted on the young! - 07:49 UK time, Tuesday, 20 May 2008
• Newsletter [10-05-08] - 09:55 UK time, Saturday, 10 May 2008
• Watch - history comes to life - 10:40 UK time, Thursday, 1 May 2008
• Myspace or Marubbi's | Facebook or Sidoli's? - 09:48 UK time, Wednesday, 30 April 2008
• Fron Aqueduct - world class - 09:31 UK time, Thursday, 20 March 2008
• Links and stories of interest [29-02-08] - 09:24 UK time, Friday, 29 February 2008
• Wales' oldest coin unearthed - 10:01 UK time, Wednesday, 20 February 2008
• Should we annexe Oswestry? - 10:45 UK time, Wednesday, 13 February 2008
• Memoryshare - let's see your photo albums! - 10:44 UK time, Friday, 8 February 2008
• Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is UK nomination - 12:23 UK time, Friday, 11 January 2008
• Links and stories of interest [08-01-08] - 14:54 UK time, Tuesday, 8 January 2008
• The hero and the wartime mystery solved - 13:01 UK time, Monday, 7 January 2008
• Memoryshare - the new way for us to preserve the past - 13:12 UK time, Monday, 31 December 2007
• This week's highlights - 09:49 UK time, Friday, 14 December 2007
• I feel like Sherlock Holmes - 11:24 UK time, Tuesday, 11 December 2007
• What price progress? - 10:27 UK time, Monday, 10 December 2007
• Home cure remedies are just the tonic? I don't think so! - 10:15 UK time, Monday, 10 December 2007
• History on our doorstep - 10:35 UK time, Wednesday, 5 December 2007
• Under the skin of Real Wrexham - 10:13 UK time, Wednesday, 5 December 2007
• Villagers preserve Home Front stories online - 08:29 UK time, Thursday, 22 November 2007
• A funny story... - 11:40 UK time, Tuesday, 20 November 2007
• Ancient royal treasure unearthed - 09:42 UK time, Tuesday, 20 November 2007
• Owain in the spotlight - 08:43 UK time, Thursday, 8 November 2007
• Save Bersham slag heap? - 11:38 UK time, Monday, 1 October 2007
• Taste Ruthin's precious waters - 09:46 UK time, Wednesday, 26 September 2007
• Auction house is going, going... - 06:43 UK time, Thursday, 20 September 2007
• Erddig wins as UK's favourite - 14:47 UK time, Tuesday, 18 September 2007
• What do you reckon to Stumpy's new look? - 09:18 UK time, Friday, 14 September 2007
• Listen: Pavarotti and Llangollen - 10:01 UK time, Thursday, 6 September 2007
• Rhyl Fun Fair - old photos - 15:16 UK time, Monday, 3 September 2007
• Too much, too young? - 13:57 UK time, Tuesday, 21 August 2007
• Pubs & trams - 15:53 UK time, Friday, 6 July 2007
• Don't vandalise our history! - 09:42 UK time, Friday, 29 June 2007
• Library shake-up brings history - 10:49 UK time, Thursday, 21 June 2007
• Wrexham goes Victorian - again! - 09:28 UK time, Tuesday, 19 June 2007
• Llangollen's secret stash & the D-Day Landings - 12:22 UK time, Wednesday, 6 June 2007
• Llan's world music festival seeks pensioners! - 10:11 UK time, Friday, 1 June 2007
• The Beatles & the benefit of hindsight - 14:19 UK time, Tuesday, 29 May 2007
• Fun's over at Rhyl fair - 14:49 UK time, Tuesday, 15 May 2007
• Change - is it always for the best? - 10:20 UK time, Wednesday, 4 April 2007
• Ouch! Rio relives Wrexham trouncing - 07:53 UK time, Tuesday, 27 March 2007
• What do Rhyl & Sydney share? - 08:05 UK time, Monday, 19 March 2007
• When dad & taid were miners... - 12:06 UK time, Friday, 16 March 2007
• Buried treasure goes on show - 10:18 UK time, Tuesday, 6 March 2007
• Chirk's lost music turns up 300 years later - 16:28 UK time, Friday, 23 February 2007
• Scala works starts - did you ever doubt it? - 16:08 UK time, Thursday, 22 February 2007
• Harriot's death brings era to an end at Erddig - 12:43 UK time, Wednesday, 24 January 2007
• Hovercraft hopes for Rhyl - 12:27 UK time, Wednesday, 24 January 2007
• When everyone wore hats - 13:49 UK time, Friday, 19 January 2007
• Steaming ahead with railway plans - 09:51 UK time, Monday, 8 January 2007
• Normal service will resume - after a few mince pies - 11:31 UK time, Friday, 22 December 2006
• Christmas carol discovered - 08:05 UK time, Tuesday, 19 December 2006
• Our links with slavery come to the fore - 10:14 UK time, Thursday, 14 December 2006
• Old film reveals past at secret weapons site - 10:45 UK time, Monday, 27 November 2006
• Past lives in photos - 10:47 UK time, Thursday, 16 November 2006
• Past lives in photos - 10:47 UK time, Thursday, 16 November 2006
• 80s life & war-time evacuees who couldn't get enough - 08:25 UK time, Monday, 6 November 2006
• Pantos & jubilees - a town's history explained - 09:51 UK time, Thursday, 2 November 2006
• Long live the Queen? - 10:44 UK time, Thursday, 19 October 2006
• What price 'progress'? - 09:39 UK time, Monday, 9 October 2006
• A grave problem! - 13:01 UK time, Wednesday, 4 October 2006
• Old photos reveal resort's heyday - 08:43 UK time, Thursday, 28 September 2006
• Denbigh hospital - homes plan back on? - 08:49 UK time, Monday, 18 September 2006
• The ships, the smells & down on the farm at the asylum - 10:07 UK time, Tuesday, 12 September 2006
• Dennis bids farewell to Wrexham - 16:15 UK time, Thursday, 17 August 2006
• When Sir Cliff sings I smell burgers & coffee! - 09:18 UK time, Wednesday, 9 August 2006
• GI Joe returns to N Wales - 07:44 UK time, Tuesday, 8 August 2006
• Do me a favour! - 06:42 UK time, Tuesday, 8 August 2006
• Digging up the past - 07:21 UK time, Friday, 4 August 2006
• Frogs, escaped lions & a quiet pint! - 08:28 UK time, Thursday, 27 July 2006
• See you at the Jubilee - 08:39 UK time, Tuesday, 11 July 2006
• How our super rich neighbours live - 10:20 UK time, Friday, 7 July 2006
• Generations unite for jubilee - 09:11 UK time, Wednesday, 28 June 2006
• Journey of remembrance - 14:53 UK time, Tuesday, 27 June 2006
• Flint hosts eisteddfod ceremony - 16:15 UK time, Wednesday, 21 June 2006
• War heroes honoured - at last - 15:52 UK time, Tuesday, 20 June 2006
• Hospital plan just the tonic? - 08:12 UK time, Friday, 16 June 2006
• Silver surfers & a toothless lion - 15:54 UK time, Wednesday, 7 June 2006
• Take the tower tour - 08:36 UK time, Tuesday, 6 June 2006
• Landlord, make mine a Benno! - 13:51 UK time, Monday, 5 June 2006
• No more secrets at WWII site - 09:28 UK time, Wednesday, 24 May 2006
• What now for secret weapons site? - 12:04 UK time, Tuesday, 23 May 2006
• Going, going, gone! - 07:57 UK time, Wednesday, 17 May 2006
• Delve into your family's past - 14:08 UK time, Tuesday, 16 May 2006
• The Da Vinci Code connection - 11:05 UK time, Monday, 15 May 2006
• Ruthin Gaol - the hangman's back! - 07:59 UK time, Monday, 8 May 2006
• Workers big on barnets! - 07:09 UK time, Thursday, 4 May 2006
• Castle treasures saved - 08:16 UK time, Wednesday, 3 May 2006
• Is it wise to catch up with old flames? - 09:31 UK time, Tuesday, 25 April 2006
• Steel jobs for Shotton - 13:56 UK time, Wednesday, 19 April 2006
• Could bison be on the menu? - 10:56 UK time, Wednesday, 12 April 2006
• When villages had it all - 09:42 UK time, Tuesday, 11 April 2006
• I'm sorry for everything! - 12:48 UK time, Thursday, 6 April 2006
• Why our community is the best! - 08:42 UK time, Wednesday, 5 April 2006
• Gone but not forgotten - 08:22 UK time, Wednesday, 5 April 2006
• Legacies & memories from an industrial age - 08:10 UK time, Wednesday, 29 March 2006
• Sex & chores - how school life has changed - 08:31 UK time, Thursday, 23 March 2006
• A local hero around the world - 08:04 UK time, Tuesday, 21 March 2006
• When silence is deafening - 07:58 UK time, Friday, 17 March 2006
• Buckley Jubilee joy - 10:45 UK time, Tuesday, 14 March 2006
• Remember when... - 13:00 UK time, Wednesday, 8 March 2006
• When Wrexham was a brewery town - 13:14 UK time, Friday, 3 March 2006