Post categories: Connah's Quay, Flint, Flintshire, Music / Entertainment, Photos, Shotton
|11:59 UK time, Thursday, 30 April 2009
There's a massive sports festival for young people being hosted at Deeside College today and among the line-up are dance group, Flava. The college is covering the event via twitter.
Post categories: Flint, Hot Topics, Wrexham
|11:17 UK time, Thursday, 30 April 2009
Given the choice would you flatten Hightown flats or refurbish the 70s building?
A meeting's being held today to consider the building's future because officials reckon £17m is needed to bring them up to scratch.
There's a similar issue going on in Flint regarding the maisonettes which we've blogged about previously under the headline, love and loathing for home.
There's certainly love for Hightown's flats - and that's backed up by the people interviewed in tonight's Evening Leader.
Post categories: Denbighshire, Flintshire, History & Memories, Wrexham
|09:33 UK time, Wednesday, 29 April 2009
I've been doing some good old fashioned research of late by visiting local libraries and archives to find information about drovers and their routes in NE Wales. It has made a change to use something other than a computer, typing in a search term in Google and clicking 'go'.
I did the obvious trawl of trusted websites like Genuki to get up and running. I then tried some web searches of catalogues and indexes held in local libraries and archives to find reading material like this info for Denbighshire and available in the archives offices at Ruthin Gaol [an atmospheric location in which to work].
It was all so easy. I was reading a book first published in the 1940s called 'Wales and the Drovers' by P G Hughes while sitting in Wrexham Library. It made reference to an article published in 1945 which was worthy of note and, faster than you could type the search term 'Caernarvonshire History Society Journal', all it took was a short walk across the first floor of Wrexham Reference Library to find the journal and the article therein, A Drover's Account Book.
The Archives Network Wales is another way to find out what's held in local libraries and archives and also proved useful.
My thanks also go to people like John Turner who has taken it upon himself to photograph drovers' roads.
And David Rowe from Mold Civic Society is forever a source of useful information. His suggested reading material was:
- Roads & Trackways of Wales by Richard Moore-Colyer (Landmark Press 2001)
- Hidden Highways of North Wales by R.J.A Dutton (Gordon Emery 1997), includes local the packhorse trail starting in Caergwrle
- The History of Halkyn Mountain by Bryn Ellis, p209 details the Turnpike Trusts and charges
My article is a way into the subject of droving and will be added to when time permits. It tries to pinpoint some drovers' routes as we look on BBC Local at ways of providing info about things to do and places to to visit as well as local history.
Post categories: Buckley, Chirk, Connah's Quay, Corwen, Denbigh, Flint, Flintshire, Holywell, Hot Topics, Llangollen, Mold, Prestatyn, Rhyl, Ruthin, Shotton, St Asaph, Wrexham, jobs
|08:50 UK time, Wednesday, 29 April 2009
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Post categories: Hot Topics, Photos, Wrexham
|08:19 UK time, Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Pontfadog County Primary School, Ceiriog Valley, is fighting closure - with old socks! The stunt is based around their campaign, Save Our Community School, aka SOCS, to drum up support for their cause.
Wrexham Council is holding a public meeting to discuss the plans for closure on Wednesday 6 May at the school. Campaigners are urging the community to turn up to show their support for the school.
Post categories: Connah's Quay, Denbigh, Flintshire, Hot Topics, Llangollen, Prestatyn, Rhyl, Shotton, St Asaph, Wrexham, jobs
|10:45 UK time, Friday, 24 April 2009
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This week, we report from the Air Products factory in Acrefair following the announcement of plans to close it with the loss of 200 jobs. A mother from Shotton tells us how she escaped from a fire at her home with her four children, residents in Rhyl explain why they're hiring security guards for their street and business is booming for a St Asaph gardening firm. Residents of Denbigh enjoy a tea dance courtesy of the All Wales Convention and Brendon Williams hops onto the foot plate with members of the Llangollen Steam Railway.
Post categories: Buckley, Chirk, Connah's Quay, Corwen, Denbigh, Flint, Flintshire, History & Memories, Holywell, Hot Topics, Llangollen, Mold, Music / Entertainment, Photos, Prestatyn, Rhyl, Ruthin, Shotton, St Asaph, Wrexham, newsletter
|09:27 UK time, Wednesday, 22 April 2009
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Post categories: Corwen, Denbighshire, History & Memories, Llangollen, Music / Entertainment, Photos, Wrexham
|08:14 UK time, Tuesday, 21 April 2009
Thanks to Tom and others for posting photos showing some of the steam engines and locomotives in action in Llangollen this week as part of the event, Steel, Steam and Stars II.
Meanwhile, listen to a BBC Radio Wales report from my colleague, Brendon Williams, on one of the footplates.
Post categories: Hot Topics
|15:41 UK time, Friday, 17 April 2009
Podcast - NE Wales Update
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This week, we mark the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster with interviews with some of those directly affected by the tragedy in North East Wales; organisers of St Asaph's Party in the Parc festival explain why this year's event has been cancelled and Science Cafe discovers how a Deeside firm is making good use of waste products. Good Morning Wales discusses the merits of home births, the phone-in programme asks if health and safety concerns are being taken too far after hanging baskets were banned from Abergele and the oldest member of the Territorial Army celebrates his 105th birthday with reporter Matthew Richards.
Post categories: Wrexham
|13:51 UK time, Thursday, 16 April 2009
Protesters in Rhosymedre are planning to stage a mass picnic as part of their campaign to try and prevent the Cefn Druids football team's ground from being moved to an area known as 'The Rocks', reports the Evening Leader. The protesters are trying to get 'village green status' for the site however website contributor Al from Rhosymedre thinks there are plenty of other green spaces in the village while Christine remembers football being played on the site in the '70s. Do you live in the area and what are your views?
Post categories: History & Memories, Ruthin
|15:15 UK time, Tuesday, 14 April 2009
Ruthin is joining in the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth by renaming the master suite at the Castle Hotel The Darwin Suite, reports the Evening Leader. Darwin stayed in the hotel almost 180 years ago during a geological field trip to north Wales.
Post categories: jobs
|12:00 UK time, Wednesday, 8 April 2009
For once there's some good news on the jobs front as the Denbighshire Visitor reports that Prestatyn's former Woolworths store is to be taken over by discount retailer Home Bargains with the creation of between 30 and 40 jobs.
I was surprised to read at the end of the article that there were 200 Woolworths shops in total in north Wales, so at least that's one less empty shop.
Post categories: History & Memories, Hot Topics, Music / Entertainment, Photos, Wrexham
|16:54 UK time, Monday, 6 April 2009
The old Hippodrome cinema in Wrexham has finally been demolished and makes for rather a sad sight in the town centre. Many people have shared their happy memories of watching films there.
Post categories: Denbigh, Hot Topics, Prestatyn, Rhyl, jobs
|11:03 UK time, Thursday, 2 April 2009
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40 jobs go at Denbigh feed mill
These losses bring the total to 1406 in 2009 in our region alone. And you can add that to the 1600 job losses in 2008 which we started counting in May when the credit crunch began.
Also this week came the news that nine jobs are going with the closure of Rhyl's DIY store Dee Jays 25 years to the day it opened.
Tags: credit crunch - jobs
Post categories: Buckley, Connah's Quay, Denbigh, Denbighshire, Flint, Flintshire, Hot Topics, Mold, Ruthin, Shotton
|08:58 UK time, Thursday, 2 April 2009
What's the connection between the traffic problems at Shotton and Welsh lamb from a Denbigh farm served by Jamie Oliver at the G20 leaders' dinner last night?
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