Showing posts from March, 2015
It's been a year this month since Rhuthun/Ruthin's best-known café and card shop began a modernisation process. Out went the Davieses, who have run it for some 30 years, though they still live above the shop and they often eat within. What&#…
The first Castell Rhuthun Castle wedding of 2015 with fireworks has just occurred. Leaving aside the sheer decadence of watching hundreds of pounds literally going up in smoke, I wonder instead of a display that includes bangs, booms, crashes and loud…
I will miss Llais y Sir/County Voice. Keeping abreast of council business should be everyone's business. It's too important to keep to itself. Through County Voice, I learnt a lot about issues we all face. How else, for example, were we suppos…
Today, workers were tidying up another of the Rhuthun/Ruthin eyesores . Out go the concrete bunker mattresses. In comes fencing.
Who'd've thunk it. Idris Evans's Steptoe's is to close. I can't remember when he opened but it must be about 1986. "Things have changed and it is important to know when to finish" If you read the article on the Free …
Yesterday, 997; today 1,008 The human spirit can be very heartening. It can also be very destructive. As we consider the Fans of the Old Ruthin Blog's 1,000th member, we see both facets on that particular Facebook group page . It was good…
It's been a while since we've mentioned cafés and certainly quite an interval since we've commented upon them in the context of prosperity . On the basis that the wealthier we are, the more time & money we spend in cafés, we've pr…
As if to emphasise the point that discounters are on the rise, yesterday, one minute late at 0801, the refurbished Dinbych Lidl re-opened, after a 77-day refit. An investment such as this indicates nothing other than its success. At the door yest…
Taylor Wimpey states it is close to re-starting the build within the Walled City of Glasdir. They abandoned things soon after the flood of November 2012. To restart, they need to conclude negotiations to ensure there are commercial insurance premiums …
Once upon a time, Rhuthun/Ruthin had its own discounter. It was called KwikSave. 10 years after its arrival, in 1992 KwikSave was joined by another discounter, Lo-cost. If you wanted a mainstream supermarket, however, you had no choice but to travel o…
The Tweedmill at Trefnant is very popular with locals and visitors alike. People will come there from some distance to shop. Even before its 2014 expansion and rebuild, the Tweedmill would draw people into the area. It is probably more important in …
Another hole has appeared in Rhuthun/Ruthin—and we’re not talking of the three trenches recently on Well Street, the two on Ffordd yr Wyddgrug or the one that recently closed Upper Clwyd Street. No, there’s a new gap in town. I bet you hardly missed…
