Showing posts from October, 2021
At last, the refurbished Café Rh/R is opens. This is formally announced on the Craft Centre web page but notice the image of the former café interior rather than the new one. You need to spot the difference .
There weren't many food hygiene standards checks undertaken during 2020. That wasn't surprising, as the department responsible was also at the forefront of the county council's coronavirus response. It's resulted in something of a back…
At the other end of town and the other end of the spectrum to the dizzying heights of Bryn Goodman is this residence, which found itself back on the market on October 21st. The picture back in January 2021 This is a dwelling with a large central ro…
As of October 20th, £695,000 buys this substantial and recently refurbished house towards the foot of Bryn Goodman. Like many dwellings on this road, it's large, well set back and has a soft frontage. The recent works have been extensive and give …
Figures as reported in the Daily Post suggest that instances recently per 100,000 of covid-19 infections in Rhuthun/Ruthin have skyrocketed. Rhuthun currently sees a major spike in numbers. It has the highest number of cases in Denbighshire and other …
The Masterplan is 10 years old. For the next fortnight, the town council is letting us all have a further say in how we should develop the town. This is ahead of the changes we might see under Levelling Up. What's on display are only concepts but …
When Denbighshire Leisure Ltd closed Café Rh/R for refurbishment (or, rather, it didn't reopen when the Craft Centre did) there was soon talk in town that it would be transformed into a Costa Café. The word from DLL was simply that the reworking …
We hear informally that there are plans for Nantclwyd y Dre. This may (or may not) be part of so-called levelling up funding but they are interesting nevertheless. One idea is to convert the currently unused west wing of the house into two holiday le…
Yesterday's History Club meeting was one of the best ever. In spite of a few tangles with the Zoom technology, Rhuthun/Ruthin-based Arnold Hughes gave an excellent talk on the World War Two Pool Park Prisoner of War camp, something about which mos…
The Denbighshire Free Press website tells you which of its stories are the most read. Alongside some bad news about the coronavirus, some news about the bake off TV programme (two articles!) and a UFO investigator comes 'Here's how you can hel…
Last night's town council was at times a fairly unruly affair. Whether through ignorance of the constitution or the way meetings run; or as a deliberate attempt to destabilise the meeting, one councillor kept interrupting and cutting across speake…
Back in April 2020 , we suggested that the Denbighshire Free Press was down to a pre-virus circulation of about about 3,600 per week (a pure estimate, of course). The virus would've also taken its toll, as few of us ventured outside, other than fo…
Denbighshire Leisure Ltd formally began operations on April 1st, 2020, in the teeth of lockdown. A bad start. Since then, it has seen a disastrous flood at Rhyl's 1891 and Pavilion Theatre, wiping out the 2021 season. Meanwhile, Café R in Rhuthun/…
This post is about basic literacy. It passes no judgement other than on the product of a modern education and its lack of understanding of basic grammar. 'Your' is the possessive case of 'you' and an attributive adjective. That's v…
The appearance on the pedestrian fingerposts of 'Lôn Parcwr Shops' got me wondering whether and why someone visiting Rhuthun/Ruthin might take the risk of walking to what is the industrial estate. Was it somewhat disingenuous to call the busi…
It seems we're out of diesel again at Dyffryn Services . So far, we've managed well during the current fuel crisis. The nearest fuel station, which by half a mile is at Loggerheads, has some but it seems that poor Lisa would struggle to get th…
Wednesday, and the poles went in. Yesterday, much of the town council's new pedestrian finger posts followed. Personally, I think they look a little stark, with the non-standard town council's chosen font against a brilliant white background. …
