Mention was made of Aibee's in some recent comments. That takes me back.
Aibee's was a grocer & fruitier on Mwrog Street, opposite Lôn Fawr. It was owned by the family who still live at Firgrove, Llanfwrog. Perhaps a strange location for such a shop, it had closed by about 1993, following the arrival of Lo-Cost (our modern day Co-op, Station Road). It wasn't the first fruitier to finish following the coming of modern supermarket retailing in Rhuthun/Ruthin.
Soon after, the premises became a business & domestic laundry and ironing service that closed immediately after the 2000 floods; the premises, like all of Mwrog Street from Lôn Fawr into town, were badly affected. It moved onto Lôn Parcwr and the Mwrog Street premises have been vacant ever since.
I don't know whether the building is currently in the ownership of the Welsh Assembly Government pending a road scheme but there were plans for such a possibility. This was seriously discussed in the 1980s and early 1990s at the time when the Welsh Office was also considering options for the A494 Llanbedr by-pass.
The favoured route of the Llanbedr by-pass was from just west of the Clwyd Gate to Pentre Smithy, cutting a straight-ish swathe across country to the south of the existing road, partly in a cutting but still very much exposed as viewed from Rhuthun, as a scar across the landscape.
To imagine the visual impact of this incision, take a look towards Llanbedr today from the distant perspective of Rhuthun and you'll see the newly bared, artificial barrenness of the existing road, following edging & drainage works. It's just below the coniferous tree line. It seems unnatural without foliage and cover.
The Llanbedr by-pass was designed to join on to a later by-pass for Rhuthun, from the Smithy to Lôn Fawr, finishing at the site of the former Aibee's, before continuing as along the A494 out of Rhuthun as before. It was to follow the alignment of the current Northern Relief Road from Lôn Parcwr to Dyffryn Services before running along the backs of Maes Hafod & Llys Erw.
The town by-pass Western Link (Dyffryn Services to Aibee's) is not programmed but I think land is safeguarded from future development, in case. This includes a spur that by-passes upper Mwrog Street. Once built, with the Northern Link Road, Rhuthun would have a proper by-pass. The Llanbedr by-pass is technically deferred though land is not safeguarded.
Aibee's was a grocer & fruitier on Mwrog Street, opposite Lôn Fawr. It was owned by the family who still live at Firgrove, Llanfwrog. Perhaps a strange location for such a shop, it had closed by about 1993, following the arrival of Lo-Cost (our modern day Co-op, Station Road). It wasn't the first fruitier to finish following the coming of modern supermarket retailing in Rhuthun/Ruthin.Soon after, the premises became a business & domestic laundry and ironing service that closed immediately after the 2000 floods; the premises, like all of Mwrog Street from Lôn Fawr into town, were badly affected. It moved onto Lôn Parcwr and the Mwrog Street premises have been vacant ever since.
I don't know whether the building is currently in the ownership of the Welsh Assembly Government pending a road scheme but there were plans for such a possibility. This was seriously discussed in the 1980s and early 1990s at the time when the Welsh Office was also considering options for the A494 Llanbedr by-pass.
The favoured route of the Llanbedr by-pass was from just west of the Clwyd Gate to Pentre Smithy, cutting a straight-ish swathe across country to the south of the existing road, partly in a cutting but still very much exposed as viewed from Rhuthun, as a scar across the landscape.
To imagine the visual impact of this incision, take a look towards Llanbedr today from the distant perspective of Rhuthun and you'll see the newly bared, artificial barrenness of the existing road, following edging & drainage works. It's just below the coniferous tree line. It seems unnatural without foliage and cover.The Llanbedr by-pass was designed to join on to a later by-pass for Rhuthun, from the Smithy to Lôn Fawr, finishing at the site of the former Aibee's, before continuing as along the A494 out of Rhuthun as before. It was to follow the alignment of the current Northern Relief Road from Lôn Parcwr to Dyffryn Services before running along the backs of Maes Hafod & Llys Erw.
The town by-pass Western Link (Dyffryn Services to Aibee's) is not programmed but I think land is safeguarded from future development, in case. This includes a spur that by-passes upper Mwrog Street. Once built, with the Northern Link Road, Rhuthun would have a proper by-pass. The Llanbedr by-pass is technically deferred though land is not safeguarded.
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