Showing posts from October, 2010
Talking of repaints as we were yesterday, the owners of the property at the junction of the Square and Well Street, now in the hands of Creative Image, were very quick to remedy the falling plasterwork and bubbling paint on its frontage, having done s…
The title of this post doesn't refer to the temperature of 15° in a cloudy though balmy Rhuthun yesterday Jane Gow also now known as the Mortgage Clinic and 75point3's Halifax agency closed at the end of last week. It now lies fallow before…
If you’re struggling with the crossword on page 9 of October's Clwyd Connection advertisement magazine, it may be that this will help. Never say we at the Rhuthun/Ruthin Blog are anything other than a community service. Trev's forgotten to in…
Today at about 1.15 p.m. marks the 200th anniversary of the laying of the Jubilee Tower's foundation stone. Yesterday marked the celebration. Our hearts go out to those who missed that celebration—but for those present, they enjoyed a memorable oc…
Today's marks the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone for the Jubilee Tower. Yesterday, came a comment, "Must be the most undersold under advertised event of the year (sic) 22k was a lot of money for…
The more observant of you will have noticed that the lights atop Moel Famau have been tested on at least three evenings this week, between about 7 and 9 p.m. And pretty good they've looked, too. This is all in advance of Sunday's 200th jubilee…
What aftermath? I'd've thought coming runner up in the Community Blog section of the Wales Blog Awards might've raised the profile of this blog just a little. Especially as there was so little interest from blogs in the North. True, a num…
Here, we're going to add to rather than repeat things. For, lots of people have already said lots of things about the lots of stones piled lots of feet up on Moel Famau . That's because, in exactly a week's time, organisers hope lots of pe…
The Free Press has a genuine scoop on its front page this week. It's reporting proposals to cull seven primary schools, all broadly in Edeirnion though two of the seven—Ysgolion Betws GG and Bro Elwern—are also loosely within Rhuthun/Ruthin's …
Blogging live from somewhere near the crowded Wales Blog Awards 2010 held in Caerdydd and we've just learnt that we were Runner Up in the Best Community Blog category... silver medal and all that for the North. Congratulations to the deserving win…
Correction: the Picture House is still open and we apologise for initially giving the impression it was otherwise. The opening of Maia florist and other recent changes means it's time to take a look at the occupancy rate in town. Excluding pubs…
2½ years after Lucinda Fashions closed , from today we can celebrate the re-opening of the unit once again, this time as a florist. Gone are the vandal prone large pains of glass in favour of an altogether more in keeping and attractive fenestration. …
We're approaching the 10th anniversary of the first of Rhuthun/Ruthin's autumnal floods , the floods that made headline news not just in Wales but in the UK. What caused the flooding? It was an unfortunate convergence of things. We'd had…
Decision makers need to know that there was overwhelming support for the conversion of the Bryniau Clwyd/Clwydian Range from an area of natural beauty to a national park . Of those who voted in the recent Rhuthun/Ruthin survey, over 75 per cent felt t…
'Tis a while since I've mentioned Tesco. And to think Tesco was the very reason why this blog had its genesis. But I cannot allow the arrival of a medium sized bright yellow sign in Tesco's "free" car park to go unrecorded. Th…
