A picture of a canal tow path and canal barge passing by. There is a well-camouflaged duck ‘hiding’ among the flora.
“From the moss-covered old alder stump young leaves are breaking, and close beside the stump there is a wild duck on her nest”
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
‘What to Look for in Spring’ (1961)
Two tall standing stones in level pasture with a blue sky behind
#StandingStoneSunday the magical Neolithic or Early Bronze Age stone pair at Penrhos feilw, nr Trearddur, Ynys Môn/Anglesey 🥰
Remarkable that they have survived so long 😮
📷 My own 2025
Set in 1940s Colwyn Bay, The Fatal Dilemma follows Private Investigator John Morris as he investigates a murder against the extraordinary backdrop of the Ministry of Food’s wartime relocation from London to the North Wales coast. #colwynbay #northwales #film #localhistory #wales
Titanic experts are inviting people in Merseyside to share any connections & items related to the ship for the exhibition at the City's Maritime Museum. 👇
BBC News - Museum's plea to people of Liverpool to share Titanic stories - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Review | Food for thought: School Dinners, Food Museum, Stowmarket, Suffolk 🍽️
A showcase of school dinners through the decades is engaging visitors of all ages, whether they experienced ordeal by pink custard or turkey twizzlers.
Gemini said A medium shot of a large, shaggy white goat with long, curved horns grazing on a bright green lawn. The goat is positioned in the foreground, facing left with its head down towards the grass. In the blurred background stands a large white building with a grey roof and prominent red chimneys, partially shaded by a large evergreen tree on the left. The scene is captured in bright, natural daylight with a clear sky visible behind the rooftops.
'She shall be buried by her Antony, / No grave upon the earth shall clip in it / A pair so famous.'
🧾 There are still tickets available for Professor Emma Rees' Weekend Course: Beguiling Shakespeare!
Met Museum photo of an ancient Egyptian board game carved from cream-coloured ivory displayed against a dark background. The original name of the game is unknown. It is now known as ‘Hounds and Jackals’ or the ‘Game of 58 holes’. The game board rests on four bulls' legs. One of the legs, seen at back of the board on the right of photo, is completely restored. Another has a restored hoof (seen at front of the board on left). The board is shaped like an axe head. In the centre of the upper surface is an incised palm tree topped by a ‘Shen’ symbol (a circle atop a a horizontal line to which it is tied). The palm’s trunk runs down the length of the board. There are 58 holes in the upper surface; 29 arranged evenly on either side of the palm tree. At the lower side of the game board there is a drawer with a bolt to store the playing pieces. The playing pieces are made up of ten long pins (sticks) with carved animal heads. Five are hounds and five are jackals. In the photo, the ten pins are arranged randomly in holes on the game board. The board is carved from ivory with ebony detailing around the 58 holes. The pins are ivory. Measurements: Game board: H 6.8cm W 10.1 cm, D 15.6 cm. Hound pins: H 6 cm to 6.8 cm Jackal pins: H 7 cm to 8.5 cm The game was excavated in 1910 by Howard Carter from the tomb of an official named Reniseneb at Thebes. The tomb is dated to Dynasty 12, Reign of Amenemhat IV, circa 1814–1805 BC. “Ancient Egyptians likened the intricate voyage through the underworld to a game. This made gaming boards and gaming pieces appropriate objects to deposit in tombs” (The Met).
This Ancient Egyptian board game is almost 4,000 years old!
Known as ‘Hounds and Jackals’ or ‘Game of 58 holes’, its original name is unknown. It’s suggested it was played in a similar way to ‘Snakes and Ladders’.
📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
An eighteen year old boy and a seventeen year old girl could not have possibly known what love is but we did and so it remained. #colwynbay #northwales #wales
#HappyHedgehogDay !!! 🦔 Check out this little guy!! A small model of a hedgehog that is about 4,500 years old! from Chalandriani, Syros, Greece. Early Cycladic II period (2800-2300 BCE). National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece. 📷 My own.
A shared heritage - #StBrigidsDay - St. Brigid's Cross & St. Ffraid's Church at #Trearddur Bay #SundayMorning #IrelandWales #Anglesey #HolyIsland #HighCross #YnysMôn #Wales #Cymru #Ireland #Imbolc #Spring
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The Colwyn Bay Heritage Group invites you to a free Then & Now talk exploring the history of North Wales through place names. Josef will take us through the landscape and languages of North Wales, revealing how the region’s rich history continues to live on in its ancient place names. #northwales
A fine spring day. Blue skies, sunshine, and a dolmen quite tightly contained within a very old and rusty iron fence. It's set in rough pasture, with hills beyond.
#DailyMegalith #TombTuesday
There seems to be a Welsh theme today, so here's my contribution.
The rather lovely Bachwen (aka Clynnog) nr #Caernarfon #Gwynedd #Wales (2025)
The capstone has 110 cupmarks, and there are fine views out to sea.
🏺 #Neolithic
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After a heavy snowfall farmer is leading a small herd down a lane to or from the milking shed
Other work of the Ladybird artists.
‘Winter Lane’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
Poster for this event: Discover the history of North Wales through place names with Josef Roberts (Tirlun). Learn how ancient names reveal the stories, language, and landscape of our region. Wednesday 4th February 2026 | 10am Colwyn Bay Library, LL29 7DH Tea & coffee before the meeting Free entry – everyone welcome
Discover the history of North Wales through place names with Josef Roberts (Tirlun). Learn how ancient names reveal the stories, language, and landscape of our region.
Wednesday 4th February 2026 | 10am
Colwyn Bay Library, LL29 7DH
Tea & coffee before the meeting
Free entry! #colwynbay #northwales
Do you have a 'munitionette' in your family? Discover the lives of the women who endured poisoning, 12-hour shifts and lethal explosions to build Britain's arms in the First World War:
www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...
In the Second World War the Ministry of Food moved to Colwyn Bay. It was vital to ensure the fair and equal distribution of food. #colwynbay #northwales #wales #WW2 #localhistory
On 17th December 1903, Orville Wright completed the first powered flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft - the Wright Flyer - near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Read more in my book 'The History of Flight' (2004)
The Colwyn Bay newsletters will be published quarterly and if you have any stories to share, local history research or a book that you feel should be featured in or from the local area, do get in touch to be included in future editions. Sign up below:
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My blog about my husband’s family.
These #Christmas postcards were sent by his grandad from the trenches. #Ww1
#postcards
My festive edition can be seen here
historicalclues.blogspot.com/2022/12/
Survey of the Coast of North Wales featuring a plan of Beaumaris & the Menai Straits & plan of the entrance to Conwy river, from the Admiralty Survey by Lieut. Charles Gepp Robinson, R.N. 1835 The map features fine inset drawings of the coastal features along the Menai Straits
1835 PENRHOS/6/165
Image is a watercolored drawing of hill with a windswept hawthorn tree on top, stones and rocks, some winter grass, and a man in no shoes painting at an easel, a pipe in his mouth. There is a label with a white dragon and a red dragon framing it that says "Dinas Emrys - Gwynedd/Snowdonnia 6 April 2023." Other arrowed labels say "the foundations of the ruins of Vortigern's tower," "The hidden glade with the dragon pool," and "spot where, discalced, I took a pretty rough tumble, slipping on the wet grass and doing some mischief to my hand and ribs."
The image in my header is a drawing from a trip to north Wales, where I hiked up to the top of that mountain where Merlin saw the red and white dragons fighting.
I fell off the top of said mountain, but not very far (broke my easel, though).
🚨 NORTH WALES TRIALS 🚨
The North Wales trials for Finding Lightning 2025 will be at St Asaph Leisure Centre on Saturday 21 December between 12PM-2PM.
Please ensure that the trialists wear appropriate indoor footwear. You can simply turn up on the day.
Willow Tit
Song Thrush
Yellow Stagshorn
Common Gull
Some local #Wildlife Photos from recently, all around North #Wales!
#Birds #Fungi #Birding #Birdingwales #Birdinguk #UKBirding #UK #Nature #Photo #Photography
An amazing example of upland oakwood/temperate rainforest habitat above ~200m in North Wales. A really surreal place to spend a few hours on a wet and misty day.
#LegendaryWednesday
Arawn, lord of the Welsh Otherworld of Annwn, once gave a gift of magical pigs to Pryderi, King of Dyfed.
The sorcerer Gwydion used his illusionary magic to steal the animals, sparking a war between Dyfed, in the South of Wales, and Gwynedd in the North.
I’ve created a North Wales Birds 2026 Calendar using my favourite photos from the past year. £10 each includes postage. Message me if you’d like one. Pics from Great Orme, Connah’s Quay, Cilcain, Gronant, Anglesey, Bardsey (cover). A4 & plenty of space to write on 😀. #birdingWales #northwales
🗨️ “Ceramics evolve with us because they arise from human capacities for imitation, social learning, and cumulative memory, which themselves evolved through natural selection,”🏺
Sergi Valverde, principal investigator at the @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social
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New Bluesky archive account to follow 🎉
(Festive) welcome to @arundelcarchive.bsky.social!
