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We need your help! Can you fill in the blanks on these famous folks' connections with north west Wales? Or do you have a famous face that you think is missing from our Hall of Fame? Let us know.

Mike Rogers from Colwyn Bay has a suggestion: "A famous (sort of) person to add is the actress Angela Hazeldine. She has been in Kavanagh QC and was in Family Affairs for four years."

Mike thinks she's from Colwyn Bay - can you tell us any more?

Nick Gausden from Rhyl wants to include: "Carl Dale - footballer born in Deganwy, played for Conwy Utd, Rhyl, Bangor City, Chester City and Cardiff City where he was first choice striker for many years. It was only the likes of Ian Rush and Mark Hughes that prevented Carl from becoming an International player."

Can anyone tell us more about Carl's footballing adventures?

Jay from Amlwch suggests: "Ben Roberts, born in Bangor and played football for QPR."

Wynn Wheldon from London thinks we should include: "Richard Hughes, novelist and author of A High Wind in Jamaica. He lived opposite Portmeirion, on that round island, the name of which presently escapes me. I'm told he used to keep a large mastiff bitch.

There's also Osian Ellis, the great harpist who I remember visiting as a child somewhere on the Llŷn.

Finally, there's Robert Jones, Rhoslan, the founding father of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Connexion and author of the classic Drych yr Amseroedd, which was published in 1820 when Jones was 75 years old.

Comment on this story

Rodgers Sydney Australia
I have come across an old family letter sent in 1958 from a Fred Gille in Liverpool who states he owned an old stone house on a headland at Aberdaron with ocean views from every window in every room. Can you help me find out if any of the Gille Family still live in Aberdaron
Mon Mar 31 10:02:23 2008

Paul Norton-Ashley. Canvey Island, Essex
'The finest Tenor in North Wales', known as Mawddach Nightingale. Ellis Morris Evans, born 1871.
Tue Aug 14 14:49:18 2007

David Matthews from Poole
One of the greatest truly Welsh heroes was surely Owain Glyndwr.
Fri Jan 27 22:21:02 2006

Arwel,Congleton
Osian Ellis went to Denbigh Grammar School about 5-6 few years ahead of me. There are photographs of him as the goalkeeper in the school team.
Wed Oct 27 16:44:39 2004



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