Showing posts from April, 2015
They were out on the streets within a day of each other and they both featured Rhuthun/Ruthin within their pages. One offered first a positive outlook on Welsh culture and the other was pessimistic about the language's future. Here was certainly s…
Appeared in today's Daily Post were five of Rhuthun/Ruthin's St John Ambulance volunteers. They each made comment on how people could benefit from joining. Phrases such as "new skills" and "meeting new people & friends"…
The blinds are down on another Rhuthun/Ruthin café. The Castle Park Café has closed. It's on the market but the for sale sign actually now reads "Let Agreed". Maybe this refers to the flats above. The current owners have decided to re…
As predicted , the speed limit at Llanrhaeadr is set to fall to 30 mph. The evidence was installed yesterday, with two new columns that will delineate the new 30 mph zone (see above). These are well north of Pentgre Llanrhaeadr village. Meanwhil…
The last newsagent in Dinbych closed a fortnight ago. Well, the last one in the town centre. There's still McColl's at Dinbych Townsend, now with added post office. Before Christmas, a corner shop cum off-licence cum confectioner opened on D…
This scan of a 1970s photograph comes courtesy of the Denbighshire Archive and was originally deposited on behalf of Leonard Roberts or Len Machine. Messrs E, W & L Roberts owned this site, known as Cae Capel, Bryn Eryl Gardens. It was a true exam…
The useful website Rhuthun Weather closed on March 14th, 2015. Enquirers who visit the site now see a message that says, "Due to relocation this site is now permanently closed. Thank you" That's not a website relocation but a house…
The Rhuthun/Ruthin Blog can exclusively reveal that Aldi is seeking permission to come to Dinbych. Why is this relevant to Rhuthun? Because, unlike from 1982 to 2005 when Rhuthun had a discount supermarket called KwikSave, our town now has none . Disc…
Thanks to the presentations yesterday , I've discovered that there are more such pictures on Facebook . This time, they're on the "official" Rhuthun/Ruthin page (though this might be self-styled: if it were official then surely this …
Gittins & Beech (usually just known as Beech's) on the corner of Well Street & Market Street hasn't really changed much. Beech's sold and repaired bicycles and, towards the rear, was an ironmonger. Before Cavendish Ikin, the sho…
Back in 2010, when the Guardian gave Rhuthun/Ruthin a terrific write-up as a desirable place to live, it said, "Well connected? You'll need a car..." With council cuts to the bus network coming in force this week we wonder how neces…
Bus services change today. Here's an article on those revisions from the Civic Association's March 2015 newsletter "Bus services in rural Denbighshire are the best that they have ever been. If that sounds subjective, you can compare cur…
As a nation, we might've fallen out of love a little with Tesco but there was scant evidence of this at lunchtime today. Regular readers will know that from time to time we count things (and people, such as the number using Tesco). So, after the …
You'll've seen them in their green uniforms walking dogs. The Rhuthun/Ruthin business by the name of Pet & Equine Services is hiring a part time member of staff. Interestingly, they need someone who is CRB checked annually. Leaving aside t…
On yesterday's de rigueur Sounds of the Sixties (BBC Radio 2 8.00 a.m.), I heard veteran broadcaster Brian Matthew play a song called "Goody Goody Gumdrops" by the 1910 Fruitgum Company. It reminded me of sixties' tobacconists & …
In January, a 19 year old male driver crashed his aged Cotroën Saxo into the Crown Hotel, Llandegla. This in spite of the naturally speed reducing effect of the traffic signals in place there since 2005. No one else was involved. Perhaps I'm jum…
This, the first in a short series on Rhuthun/Ruthin's history, is inspired by the editors of Hanes Rhuthun/The History of Ruthin "To cope with this increase in population, the twentieth century saw significant house building within the town…
The Ruthin Wikipedia page lists a number of notable people with connections to Rhuthun/Ruthin. This is an example of where Wikipedia really struggles . There's no mention whatever of Gabriel Goodman or John Ambrose or Geoff Dwight or Godfrey Le…
The rejection by the People of Britain of Rhuthun/Ruthin's Joe Woolford during Saturday's live public vote on the BBC TV semi-final of The Voice* does not appear to have done the lad any harm at all. Quite the reverse. As all the "V…
