Rhuthun / Ruthin

One minute read ▼ We can’t tell who reads Bro Rhuthun The Rhuthun/Ruthin Blog... but we can usually tell where they come from.  202 arrived here from Facebook on April 1st, having read about ‘Footfall Fears...’ on the social platform. That’s out of a…

Did you recently get a copy of the latest (2024) The Phone Book? If you did, it’ll be the last you will receive.  It’s labelled ‘Final Edition: hold on to it forever’. I think that’s optimistic and I bet most went straight into the blue X2 recyclable …

It’s rather sad to report that Resource Wales’ From the Earth café (opposite the Manor House, Well Street) closed five days after we thought it was beginning to make a breakthrough in terms of numbers using it . It’s officially ‘closed until further n…

In spite of a rather cold couple of days‡ have you noticed this year that there are vastly more daffodils out for Dydd Gŵyl Dewi. Garden and verge-side daffs seemed much earlier in 2024. A mild (and very wet) February and we estimate that the first va…

We thought we ought to stop by to see how Rhuthun/Ruthin’s first influencer is doing. That’s Rachel Ryland, by the way . She sold her care business and closed her shop. Instead, she favours Tik Tok.  To date, Rachel has posted 142 videos on Tik Tok.  …

... is give peace a chance. Late morning on Friday and it was quiet in town. Those who gathered by the clock tower for yesterday’s peace vigil effectively more than doubled the number of people on St Peter’s Square.  The irony of the vigil, meanwhile…

If there’s one criticism of Rhuthun/Ruthin’s annual pantomime it’s that demand outstrips supply. Otherwise, it’s a jolly occasion for the crew, cast and audience. Sadly, Microsoft Excel and the internet have resulted in our using a colon rather than a…

The last time we had an internet sensation, it was David Garland Jones . Now, we may need to brace ourselves for a second.  Reading dailypost.co.uk on Thursday and who should pop up at the bottom right of my laptop screen other than one Rachel Ryland.…

Today is the funeral of the well known Colin Davies, late of Siop Nain , Well Street. Would you believe that he started the business there half a century ago. He was a familiar figure behind the till (though it was his wife who usually tended it). The…

Reports are filtering down about Monday evening's town council meeting. This was the first  not to be on Facebook . The public were able to gain access via a Zoom link or attend in person. We aren't sure know how many did so in total.  The vel…

Although it's dated January 11th, I believe that the planning application for the proposed velodrome went live yesterday.  It'll now be a case of lighting the blue touch paper.  How so? This sort of development will be polarising. On the one h…

And, finally, in terms of a third day of industrial property , back in week beginning November 13th, 2023, the former 2,600 sq ft Royal Mail delivery office, Rhos Street, was posted as 'under offer'. It was on the market for £175,000. We can o…

Talking of industrial units (as we were yesterday ), Denbighshire council's 20,000 sq ft former Hen Lôn Parcwr social services Canol y Dre premises is on the market for £500,000. You have 13 days in which to submit an informal tender (by 12.00 noo…

At Christmas, Lôn Parcwr's Redstone Subaru closed. Yesterday, well before Twelfth Night, they put up the finishing touches by blanking off their roadside totem. In March 2017 , Redstone established its Subaru dealership selling new cars in Rhuthun…

With supermarkets stripped bare of their Christmas decs quicker than the removal of Marshall Toto's pictures at the fall of Yugoslavia, we barely had chance to celebrate the birth of Christ before supermarkets have stocked up for His resurrection.…

On December 17th, the Manor House's Gavin Harris posted on Facebook about the Rhuthun/Ruthin velodrome . He noted that it was 'a pivotal week' for the project. He reminded us that Sports Wales and Welsh Cycling had agreed to fund £2.3m for…

Here's something deliberately controversial.  Amid a flood of congratulatory comments, there were those in Rhuthun/Ruthin yesterday who remain uneasy about the convoy of lights. Admittedly these were few but the number is growing. In 2021, we sugg…

Saturday December 3rd was the first of three Saturdays where car parks were free of charge. Yet, it was inevitable after Saturday November 25th's hugely busy day that December 3rd was quiet in Rhuthun/Ruthin. The same happened last year.  Quite a…

Yesterday... Last week, just in time for this week's Greenwich mean time, the disparity between our town town clocks was at last remedied. For about one month, the clock on the Peers Memorial was (usually very) wrong. This is not the first time th…