The all-time top goalscorer for Wrexham AFC, Tommy Bamford, was born in Port Talbot on this day (2 November) in 1905. He scored 175 goals in 204 appearances for the dragons between…
Category: Welsh Histories
Bontnewydd Palaeolithic Cave
Our Welsh lands have been inhabited for hundreds of thousands of years. Did you know that throughout all of Great Britain, only three sites have produced fossils of ancient species of humans?…
Castell Cricieth – A Native Welsh Castle
For me personally, Castell Cricieth – located in the town of Cricieth, Gwynedd – is one of the better looking of the remaining native castles of Cymru. Who Built Castell Cricieth? Advertisement…
The Severn Tunnel – Twnnel Hafren
Twnnel Hafren (the Severn Tunnel) was opened to trains by the Great Western Railway (GWR) for the first time on 1 September 1886. It was designed by GWR chief engineer, John Hawkshaw,…
Martha Hughes Cannon
Did you know… the first female U.S. State Senator was from Llandudno? Advertisement Martha Hughes Cannon (1857 – 1932), born to Peter Hughes and Elizabeth Evans of Madoc Street, Llandudno, lived an…