Acton Garage fire in 1966

Who can resist such a splendid piece of nostalgia as the postcard of the long defunct Glynn Picture House, passed to me by the Down Memory Lane editor. I was there, second house, balcony, for [more]

St. Mary’s Catholic Cathedral, Regent Street, Wrexham. WREXHAM is the Episcopal seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Menevia which covers all Wales with the exception of Gwent (formerly Glamorgan and Monmouth). St. Mary’s in [more]

by Jill Burton. George was born in 1859 in Erbistock, the son of an agricultural labourer. On the 1881 census he was a lodger in Bersham and working as a railway plate layer. He also [more] [more]