Mynydd Picnic (Picnic Mountain) – Hafod 9th July 2010 The colliery once employed over 1900 local people, mainly from the villages of Rhos, Ponciau and Johnstown. The pit was closed in 1968. In the mid [more]
Eddystone House and the Eddy Family. Deleth Hannaby told Eileen Williams about a lovely old house called Eddystone House, built 1899. If you turn off the Wrexham Road and go up Aberderfyn Road it is [more]
Bob the Bellman, Johnstown This 1932 picture is of Bob the Bellman – real name Sam Jones who’s family nickname was Dinah. He was the bellman for Ponciau and Johnstown in the nineteen thirties. He [more]
The picture is one of George Davies’ butchers shop. This shop stood on the main road at the top of Bangor Road Johnstown opposite Jerusalem Chapel. After trading as a butcher’s shop it became a [more]
A meeting was held at the National Schoolroom in Rhos in March 1878. It was chaired by the Rev. J. Jones. A resolution was proposed and carried unanimously in favour of purchasing an iron church [more]
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