Fire at Rhos – Christmas Day 1908. On Christmas Day 1908, about eight o’clock in the evening, smoke was seen to be issuing from premises of Dicks’ boot stores, on the Cross, The alarm was [more]

I have been aware of I. D. Hooson for a while, but in 2014 Graham Lloyd drove me to the Panorama to see Hooson’s monument.  Many words have been written about Isaac Daniel Hooson but [more]

The Stiwt Theatre. Formerly the “Miner’s Institute” (Plas Mwynwyr), which was built in 1926 and dominated the social and cultural life of the village until 1977 when it closed. The local council, which had purchased [more]