Showing posts from December, 2007
Think you Known Rhuthun?Since the very beginning of December, over each of the subsequent 24 days, we’ve uploaded an image of Rhuthun. We’ve challenged those who read this blog to think about where in town each is. We’ve called it a Christmas quiz, t…
Saturday Retrospective There were some mixed feelings about Saturday. Some traders were happy with the numbers in the town. One felt powerless because the so-called “credit crunch” was having an effect. Another felt that Saturday’s pedestrianisation…
All pictures by "Maddewch iddyn Nhw". About 250 brave souls watched in the cold and intermittent rain yesterday morning as the first Mari Lwyd parade unfolded. This featured a grey mare at the front of a small procession from the Castle vi…
So there it is, then. Perhaps it’s all a dark conspiracy . Yesterday’s Denbighshire Free Press’ front page shouted, “Nuke plant shocker” and although any North Wales atomic power station’s unlikely to be on the shores of Llyn Brenig, it could be at Tr…
“In the run up to Christmas, traders should abandon the idea of late night opening and concentrate on weekends. Late nights have been poor for a number of years”. So said a Rhuthun town centre trader this week. Tonight’s the last late night before C…
Fewer comments of late but perhaps its quality not quantity. Wind Farms Invisus comments, “Having spoken with someone who lives by the Llangwm ones, [the turbines] are extremely noisy and sleep-disturbing a kilometre away.” An anonymous Melin y …
We tend to disagree with the editorial in yesterday’s Denbighshire Free Press when it hints that we should enjoy the hundreds of lights that illuminate our towns at Christmastide without worrying too much about the impact on global warming. We shoul…
Gweledigaeth Rhuthun (Ruthin Vision) is offering a chance to win some startling local prizes in its first Christmas raffle. 12 prizes include a free tank of petrol each month§, free bottle of wine each week, and a free family lunch each month for four…
Did you take the opportunity to visit the art exhibition and sale at the former Banton opticians, Clwyd Street, on Saturday? Open for one day only, there was the opportunity to step across the threshold of this lock-up shop for the first time in, wha…
Rhuthun’s refurbished police station has come back on line. It was open to the public on Saturday, following its closure for remodelling from early July. During the work, there’s been a temporary station on the fire station forecourt. It’s gratifyin…
Delivered throughout the town centre and to stores yesterday afternoon were fliers for “Nadolig Rhuthun”. Just when you thought there was no town marketing effort this Christmas, we’d say Gweledigaeth Rhuthun (Rhuthun Vision) has actually excelled its…
In an exact repeat performance of last year, Rhuthun’s first night of late night shopping was again washed out by bad weather. If it’s possible for this year’s to be worse than last, then it was. Though mild, lashing rain had by 6 p.m. caused signifi…
Here we are in the midst of autumn and the British apple season. You’d expect our supermarket shelves to be teeming with home grown varieties. But no. Is it that our tastes have changed? Or is it that supermarkets only consider a handful of native app…
... in our heritage, that is. From time to time on this site, we’ve featured a number of homes for sale that will appeal to those with a sense of local history. They are the antidotes to the modern dwellings currently under construction at Parc Rhut…
Assuming 40 mpg and paying £1.03 unleaded, a round trip from Rhuthun to either Y Rhyl or Wrecsam costs in the order of £5. The price of petrol is certainly a talking point at the moment. Just about everyone in the national needs to travel, by car or…
It’s with some relief that today the Christmas curtain lights went up in Rhuthun. It seemed that they weren’t going to happen, even though last weekend a gang had been checking the wires slung between buildings. For the last two years and now this,…
A week last Wednesday we posted on Lewis Electrics’ decision to withdraw from the toaster and kettle market. And bulbs and batteries. Though it may seem surprising for an electrical retailer *not* to stock such items, it squarely blamed competition f…
