
The Penycae Pram Race.
One of the many local events that took place during the 1980s in Penycae, Wrexham.
Filmed by Keith Davies of Penycae.
Source: Keith Davies.
One of the many local events that took place during the 1980s in Penycae, Wrexham.
Filmed by Keith Davies of Penycae.
Source: Keith Davies.
Rhos and Penycae were described in the infamous “Blue Book” of 1847 as a place worse than Merthyr Tydfil. Many of the houses were of one room measuring 9 or 10 feet square and others [more]
On the evening of February 10, 1964, the worst peacetime disaster in Australian maritime history unfolded off the New South Wales south coast. During a naval training exercise HMAS Melbourne, an aircraft carrier, collided with [more]
The village of Penycae during in its heyday had thirteen pubs, but only two of them remain open today. (2016) Around 1830, the Public House was a very important place in the life of the [more]
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