07 August 2010

The Myddeltons, the Red Hand Gang

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Roger Mortimer built the earliest parts of Chirk Castle, overlooking the Ceiriog Valley, in 1295. One Thomas Myddelton bought Chirk in 15...
01 August 2010

Mad Jacks Aplenty*

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Atop Cym y Bwch, the 1995 sculpture Janus Horse , one head facing England and the other Wales, marks the site of Oswestry Old Racecourse...
15 July 2010

HZ Fourgon

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Introduced in 1947, the H van was produced right through to 1981. It was designed single-handedly by Pierre Franchiset, and is famed both fo...
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11 July 2010

Restoration Man & Woman

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Natalie and Karl Bass open Christ Church in Welshpool as part of the local council's 'Be a Local Tourist' week. Living accommo...

Llynclys - Steam Under Collars

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Shades of The Life of Brian 's People's Front of Judea, Judean People's Front, Judean Popular People's Front, and Campa...
07 July 2010

What, When & Ware VI

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Always go around the corner, take the road with which one is unfamiliar. Across a little footbridge over the River Lea, built by Tubewri...
30 June 2010

If You Go Down to the Woods

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Broxbourne Woods is Hertfordshire's only National Nature Reserve. As home to scarce wildlife, including 27 species of butterfly, it is...
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23 June 2010

What, When & Ware V

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Out in bloom along the New River (YMGW passim ) are ox-eye daisies ( Leucanthemum vulgare ) and field poppies ( Papaver rhoeas ). Hard b...
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Cave of a Cove

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To the west of Nesscliffe Rock, Shropshire, is a cave cut in the red sandstone, the hideout of the late fifteenth-century/early sixteent...
17 June 2010

Isettas Need Little Oil

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From St Austell comes this tin 20 gallon oil dispenser, complete with brass pump and gradated wooden dipstick. Its function has preserv...
13 June 2010

Kinnerley: Ammo, Arbour & Argoed

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The Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway ran through Kinnerley until 1960. This, and the balance between centrality and remoteness, lay...
10 June 2010

Fanhams Hall

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Just outside Ware is Fanhams Hall, which started life as a Queen Anne house. It has passed through many hands, including, in the n...
06 June 2010

Ceiriog Engineering Feats

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Chirk Aqueduct, built by Thomas Telford and opened in 1801, carries the 46 mile Llangollen Canal over the River Ceiriog . It's an im...

Lee or Lea?

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Signs in Ware use both "Lea" and "Lee" to refer to the river. For a considerable part of its way this flows within t...
29 May 2010

Penybontfawr

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In Penybontfawr, Powys, is the Bethania Service Station, featured in an article in the May issue of Classic Bike , about the death of in...
28 May 2010

The Lake with No Name, Shrewsbury

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The Radbrook area lake that fills what was once a Hanson-operated quarry doesn't appear to have a name - seemingly enough time has n...
22 May 2010

Old Oswestry Hillfort

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The hill upon which Old Oswestry Hillfort sits was settled from the Neolithic right through to the Roman period. The hillfort is one of ...
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19 May 2010

What, When & Ware IV

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On the north side of the River Lea are a number of eighteenth century gazebos, unique as a group. These stand at the end of wha...
16 May 2010

Llanymynech

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Llanymynech is dominated by the limestone quarries of Llanymynech Hill and the chimney of the nearby Hoffman kiln (YMGW passim ), ...
13 May 2010

Neither New nor a River

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The New River (YMGW passim ) was constructed between 1609 and 1613 to carry fresh spring water to London from Hertfordshire, and is st...