Showing posts from December, 2006
If you want to take a look around Rhuthun's Craft Centre, tomorrow’s your last chance. You probably won’t find much open other than the gallery and tourist info-cum-shop. After that, though, the place closes for redevelopment. Rumours circulatin…
This time last year, we speculated that with the coming of Tesco the seasonal pre-2006 Christmas queues at Rhuthun’s Co-op would be a thing of the past . Did we get that prediction right? Well, it was something of a surprise on the last full tradi…
The £46,000 pedestrian bridge over Yr Afon Clwyd between the Park Road car park & recycling centre and Clwyd Street for the Gaol officially opened on Friday 22 December 2006. It was part funded by the town council.
Here’s a quote from p22 of Thursday’s Free Press, a page-long article on how Rhuthun’s shopkeepers are turning their hand at reselling the town. “… according to a website allegedly authored by local people, there is an ‘air of despondency’.” Was i…
The rectangle of St Peter’s Square by the car parking area was closed on Saturday, as part of the produce market. How pleasant it was to enjoy what is the best of Rhuthun, unhindered by moving and (often illegally) parking vehicles. Could this be a mo…
Those of you Christmas shopping who yesterday (Saturday) queued for car parking and again at the shops in Caer/Chester, Wrecsam, Yr Wyddgrug/Mold or Llandudno – or queued for Tesco in Rhuthun – certainly missed out on Rhuthun town centre at its best. …
Not Miami, New York or anywhere else, for that matter. This remarkable shot shows a police scientist examining a burnt out car for clues at Ysgol Brynhyfryd this morning. The school entrance was sealed off today as a crime scene. It was reported tha…
On the Cyngor Sir Ddinbych/Denbighshire County Council website yesterday was news that Tesco’s will be going ahead with a new store in Prestatyn. This follows the Cynulliad/Assembly’s backing of the county council’s long running compulsory purchase or…
If you were in Rhuthun yesterday evening for late night shopping, you definitely weren’t in good company. There were so few people until 7 p.m. it was almost embarrassing. Things did liven up after 7 o’clock but to nowhere near the same extent as in s…
As I write this, skies over Rhuthun are largely clear. There’s a respite from the heavy and prolonged rain we’ve experienced more on than off, since Sunday. Roadside ditches are beginning to fill, the nentydd (streams, brooks) are all in spate, one dr…
Thank you to all those who have recently contributed with comments. This post stems from one such, on 29 November. And it’s somewhat timely, given the chancellor’s decision to increase petrol by 1¼ p at midnight yesterday morning. During both Tesco’…
Another important step in Rhuthun’s continued prosperity is complete today, with a further vacant shop open for trade. The former Lewis Electrics shop at 40 Well Street is now transformed and open as Nelson’s, a café-cum-cookshop, run by Victoria Le…
