Showing posts from December, 2019
There remains a huge lack of understanding as regards climate change both within the general public and especially our national politicians where there is a lack of action. We agonise over Europe yet we let down our younger people on climate change. W…
This new posted limit at Llanfair DC seems odd. Why convert the advisory 20 mph speed into a mandatory one... when the school has less than three months of life left. That's what's happened—or seems to have. From the Rhuthun/Ruthin to Llys…
... Tesco's plans to re-engineer its junction with Lôn Parcwr to prevent cars turning right? It was Christmas 2015 —four years ago—that Tesco instigated a temporary right turn ban. It went, came again and then went. There's been no sign of…
The wholefood shop has a new till, as of yesterday. So what, I hear you say. Well, perhaps I'd agree, save that it's replaced one antique with another. No modern EPOS inventory control system here, then. No Apple Cash cloud-based stock c…
Some statistics given out at the Historical Society meeting the day before yesterday: 135 members, £574 income in the year; balance of £2,032.58; and 10,000 page hits to its website. The number of page views does seem rather a lot for a site of limite…
Arnold Hughes gave a talk on Pool Park at yesterday's history club meeting. Before the formal park, in the 4th or 5th century, it was believed to be in the hands of a local post-Roman prince, Emlyn. His burial stone, likely placed on high grou…
This is the bin at the Dyffryn Services (Esso) filling station. It's faded and rotting. But it's also a strange reminder of a once prominent and ubiquitous industrial design that during the 1960s and 1970s you could see in almost every corner …
Darren Millar AM made an appearance at yesterday's town council to give a presentation. It is perhaps testament to Rhuthun/Ruthin and its town council that he actually had very little to say. He made mention of the 'appalling' decision to …
