Showing posts from November, 2014
Those who were at the town council last night will have heard the town centre co-ordinator pitch that what Rhuthun/Ruthin needs is a marketing logo and with it a brand. "Logo" and "brand" are two very throw-away words, these days…
The effort put in to the Christmas market and celebration was rewarded today with what was one of the busiest Christmas events of its type, in modern times. The mild and dry weather helped. The children's performance in St Peter's also assis…
The Bwlch yr Oernant/Horseshoe Pass isn't the busiest road for people from Rhuthun/Ruthin but it is Rhuthun's gateway to the A5, the English midlands and the M6(S). Threatened consultation on a speed limit or none, the A542 that goes over the …
Is this a sign that we may have returned to some sort of economic growth in the Vale? A sign of renewed confidence? The Llanrhaeadr Springs health farm that's been closed and on the commercial market for about four years has sold. Its asking pri…
The roads around Rhuthun/Ruthin have certainly seen their share of new surfaces so there's nothing particularly unusual about the work on the A525 near Ruthin Precast Concrete (although here its scale is interesting, owing to the level of reconstr…
New signage appeared around town yesterday, pointing visitors to the most appropriate car park for Nantclwyd y Dre and, thereafter, guiding pedestrians to the house itself. This, we understand, was at the behest of the county council's economic re…
I suppose it was inevitable: I have to say that I remain concerned about some of the content within the Fans of the Old Ruthin Blog Facebook page. Much is worthwhile, of course, but some of it is bonkers or worse. I suppose my main gripe is a lack…
The History of Ruthin has tackled the Glyndŵr siege rather well. Available from this afternoon from Siop Elfair and the Rhuthun/Ruthin Bookshop and priced as expected at just £9.99*, for me, the way in which the authors treated the AD 1400 rebellion w…
Today, Denbighshire has voted to merge itself out of existence. Well, to explore the potential for a merger with Conwy that may lead to an expression of interest. There are implications for Rhuthun/Ruthin, a town that gained, lost, regained and will n…
It may be a year overdue and it's not out till towards the end of the month but your blog author can claim to be one of the first to have handled a copy of The History of Ruthin, thanks to one of its editors, Gareth Evans & Arnold Hughes. A qu…
... in town. The longest shopfitting-out ever at last seems to be within days of readiness. Working within Castlemews Carpets today were two people who were putting up carpet racking. Shop signage's been up for months, a small selection of carpe…
They promised us the return of the flower boxes that used to adorn Ye Olde Anchor Inn . In spite of the conversion being finished in July and occupied from September 2014, flowers look less and less likely. Instead, though, Ruthin School has broken…
It was 25 years ago today that applicants Messrs H E, E H, H S & V P and Miss P E Jones submitted an outline planning application for the development of a total of 28.7 acres of land between Dog Lane and Lôn Speiriol Isaf. It included a residentia…
I don't usually comment on some of the crasser side of the Fans of the Old Ruthin Blog Facebook site but this one-question survey fits into the "daft" category. It's from Kelly Benton and it asks whether Denbighshire council should d…
