Showing posts from March, 2016
20 years ago today was the last day of the former Clwyd County and Glyndŵr District Councils. We celebrate this occasion with a look at nine images of artifacts that are still visible, even after this length of time. That these remain at all is surpri…
The highways department was out this weekend renewing white and yellow lines—though generally either on the periphery of the town centre or simply renewing less controversial lines within the town centre itself. In contrast to the furore of July 20…
Tonight's town council was its usual mix of extreme trivialities and excessive banalities. It probably merits the usual no mention whatsoever other than a humourous revelation (see third para—an early April fool). Meanwhile, as elsewhere in De…
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 …
The final meeting of the season of the newly reconstituted Ruthin Local History Society took place yesterday. Dr Bob Sylvester, who has the splendid title of the Hon. Diocesan Archaeologist, compared three churches in the Vale: St Marcella's, Llan…
This afternoon, Rhuthun/Ruthin's most intriguing thoroughfare reopened. The county council closed the Cunning Green in May 2013, owing to safety concerns. This was because a section of the castle wall had collapsed and other parts were dee…
Launching on Thursday will be the town's new Visit Ruthin website plus, at long last, the official launch of the new logo . That logo's taken well over a year to get out there and we thought it had been quietly dumped. Not so. At first, we w…
Notices have appeared today on car parking machines in Rhuthun/Ruthin advertising new parking charges with effect from April 1st. There's going to be something of a backlash. This follows a decision way back in October 2015 to restructure car pa…
