Showing posts from February, 2016
We hear that the Craft Centre may be in trouble. Having tried to attract a new cornerstone tenant for the vacated café, to our amazement, there has been zero concrete interest. Without a café, it's hard to imagine the centre attracting locals let …
What do Joe Woolford, Matt Monro, Sandie Shaw, Cliff Richard twice, Lulu, Mary Hopkin, Clodagh Rodgers, The New Seekers, Olivia Newton-John, The Shadows, The Brotherhood of Man, Lyndsey de Paul (and Mike Moran), Bucks Fizz, Michael Ball and Bonnie Tyl…
I counted six Joe 'n' Jake posters in Clwyd Street, one in Upper Clwyd Street and 11 on Well Street. There was none on St Peter's Square. Tesco had one but the Co-op did not. That's the Co-op blacked, then : ) Rhuthun/Ruthin sing…
In the latest lecture before the Ruthin Local History Society, the audience this evening heard Gwyn Jones of Llannefydd speak of the Vale of Clwyd and district in the 1700s. To Jones's credit, he did so without the prop of a Powerpoint presentat…
The Seven Oaks Garden Centre Café on Lôn Parcwr opened during the summer. In terms of the staff therein serving, it's kind of Siop Nain meets Crown House meets Annie's. The short order cook once worked at Siop Nain—but she's left the stale…
Front page and page three of the Free Press of yesterday's week features the A494 crash on the Mold side of the Clwyd Gate. It involved two cars and a bus. It comes no more than 30 years after a motorist died when, on the wrong side of the road at…
Today, Bryn Eryl joins Y Parc and about two-thirds of the Bro Deg/Maes Cantaba agglomeration in receiving new 2016-style lamp column heads emitting the cold, frosty light of LEDs . They look kinda spacey. It's part of a scheme paid for by an int…
There's been something of a tidy-up this month at the Walled City. First, the wooden Glasdir boundary fences are all mended. This is positive news as, progressively, they were literally being pulled (or were just falling) apart. The fencing w…
It is with some considerable sadness that we report the imminent closure, at the end of this month, of Rhuthun/Ruthin Country Market. Unless, that is, at least two new producers come out of the woodwork. It's been with us for some 30 years, starti…
"This is wrong on so many levels". How often do you hear that statement? What does it actually mean? I suppose it's a modern way of saying something is wrong in any way you wish to look at it. Front page headline from today's De…
It's been seven years since we last discussed shops closing on Mondays . What's changed? In January 2009, the following shops were closed on Mondays, with updates in yellow): Capricorn charity shops (new shop since last survey) (VACATED R…
