Showing posts from December, 2017
After a relatively mild October and November, winter cooled right down in December. The first snow arrived on December 9th and 10th and small pockets remained to the 17th. This was the heaviest spell. Then, more but lighter snow arrived on 29th. …
The Fans of the Old Ruthin Blog Facebook site has been relatively quiet of late. Then, yesterday, there was an interesting thread about snow and ice. Parents posted about their daughter's crash yesterday morning. The daughter apparently wrote off …
You'd think that the pope or the archbishop of Canterbury or someone would have thought this through. Christmas Eve falling on a Sunday? That ain't good for trade, not at all. Remember, it's the winter spending festival, after all. All rat…
Gareth Evans gave a short talk at yesterday evening's history club on one Robert Roberts (1851 - 1923), described as Rhuthun/Ruthin's most successful businessman of his era. He was also the town's last brewer, or so Evans contended. In…
Deep & Crisp & Even Snow to this extent before Christmas we haven't seen for, what, 10 years. It seemed to be a feature of our weather but not recently. Yesterday's snow was therefore something of a shock, with local schools closi…
Ruthin Town & Around has had a makeover. That's the journal of the Ruthin & District Civic Association. Not only does it now look professionally put together—no longer using the dreaded Microsoft Publisher—but some of its content has a bit…
