
On the canal, near Chirk 1995

At about half past two on the afternoon of Saturday 16th September 1854, two men employed by Mr. Morris, were engaged in unloading wheat from three railway trucks on railway sidings just off the main [more]
In 1800 the abandonment of the Ellesmere Canal main line from Trevor via Wrexham to Chester was already being mooted, mainly because Flintshire and Deeside collieries had already reached tidal water via short tramways or [more]
Meredith was the best of his day. George Best was once the idol of the football fans. In the ‘forties it was Stanley Matthews, in the ‘thirties Dixie Dean, but in the ‘twenties it was [more]
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