Parade Street to be closed on three Sundays for resurfacing

 

To allow resurfacing work by the county council, East Parade Street and Parade Street, Llangollen, will be closed to traffic on the Sundays, January 21, January 28 and February 4.

The signposted alternative route will be via Market Street, Berwyn Street and Castle Street.

Latest roadworks alerts from county council

Latest local roadworks update from Denbighshire County Council is:

JUNC VICARAGE ROAD - JUNC FRON CASTELL FRON BACHE 02/01/2024 26/01/2024 Gwaith Nwy / Gas Works WALES & WEST (DCC) LLANGOLLEN Ffordd ar Gau/Road Closure

CHURCH STREET (46700268) LLANGOLLEN, DENBIGHSHIRE CHURCH STREET 09/01/2024 09/01/2024 Gwaith Dwr / Water Works MORRISON UTILITY SERVICES LLANGOLLEN Ffordd ar Gau/Road Closure

OUTSIDE ARMSTRONG TOWERS BIRCH HILL 10/01/2024 12/01/2024 Gwaith Nwy / Gas Works WALES & WEST (DCC) LLANGOLLEN Ffordd ar Gau/Road Closure

OUTSIDE GLANAFON ABBEY ROAD 12/01/2024 12/01/2024 Gwaith Trydanol / Electrical Works NETWORK PLUS (DCC) LLANGOLLEN

OUTSIDE ACTIVITY CENTRE, PARADE STREET LLANGOLLEN LL20 8RD CO ORDS: PARADE STREET 14/01/2024 14/01/2024 Gwaith ar Dwll Archwilio/ Man Hole Works ALUN GRIFFITHS (DCC) LLANGOLLEN Ffordd ar Gau/Road Closure

Wrth / Nr Bryn Howel A539 LLANGOLLEN ROAD 17/01/2024 17/01/2024 Gwaith BT/ BT Works SUNBELT RENTALS (DCC) LLANGOLLEN

A539 JUNC HILL STREET - O/S NO. 4 VICARAGE ROAD 22/01/2024 02/02/2024 Gwaith Nwy / Gas Works WALES & WEST (DCC) LLANGOLLEN Ffordd ar Gau/Road Closure

Young Rangers experience volunteer lifesaving service

Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Young Rangers recently experienced the important role carried out by a volunteer life-saving service.

A group of young rangers visited the North East Wales Search and Rescue (NEWSAR) at their base in Loggerheads.

NEWSAR is a volunteer Search and Rescue (Mountain Rescue) Organisation, operating mainly across  Flintshire, Denbighshire, Wrexham and parts of Conwy and Powys.

Volunteers taught the young rangers  some life-saving first aid and gave the group a tour of the land rovers and their new search response vehicle.

The youngsters even got to meet Chloe, the SARDA search dog, and Dave her handler, showing off their combined skills by sniffing out a hiding ranger.

* For more information abut NEWSAR please visit http://www.newsar.org.uk

If you are between the ages of 11-17 and interested in joining Young Rangers, drop an email to Imogen at imogen.hammond@denbighshire.gov.uk for the Clwydian Range or Sam at sam.langdon@denbighshire.gov.uk for the Dee Valley.

£400,000 gas pipes upgrade to get underway

A £400,000 project to upgrade gas pipes in Llangollen will get underway in the new year, Denbighshire Free Press has reported. 

Wales & West Utilities will shortly start work in the Bache Mill Road area of the town.

* For the full story go to: https://www.denbighshirefreepress.co.uk/news/24005604.llangollen-400-000-will-upgrade-gas-network-town/?ref=socialflow&fbclid=IwAR0_rMx-n-tGpoOka65wpmxZSH3wVn6p9K29BgIeXsTBrw7vh9M6l2_z

Community Christmas Day lunch serves up over 70 Turkey meals

* Above and below: Diners enjoy the lunch served at the Community Hall.

* Community lunch organisers Mike and Val Connolly.

Llangollen Community Christmas Lunch saw a total of 72 turkey meals served up on the big day.

Of those prepared and served 63 were enjoyed in a specially-decorated St Collen's Community Hall and nine were delivered by volunteer drivers to people in their homes.   

Of the diners in the hall were 13 children, the youngest of whom was spending her first Christmas having been born just eight months ago.    

Organiser Mike Connolly said: "A terrific team of helpers worked right through from 11am to keep our guests looked after really well.     

"Among the many generous supporters of the lunch were Llangollen Town Council, St Collen’s Church, Llangollen’s men’s five-a-side football team, Liberty Tavern, S & G Bistro, Ruth Owen, Lynne Williams, Suzi Moore and others who called in on Christmas morning to deliver gifts and their good wishes.  

"My wife Val and myself want to express our particular thanks to Ian Wright, who with his grand-daughter Millie Davies, spent several hours on Christmas Eve setting up and dressing the tables, and to the stars of the kitchen who pulled all the food together. Our suited-n-booted chef was Scott very ably assisted by Jess Hart.    

"Thanks also to Elizabeth (Betty) Johnson and her late husband Peter for setting up this wonderful event and handing the baton over to Val and I some years ago."   

Old postcard found in New Zealand creates Eisteddfod mystery

 

* The girl in the postcard discovered in New Zealand.

A 1950s postcard found by a Llangollen man in a vintage shop 11,000 miles away in New Zealand has revived memories of the early days of the town’s International Musical Eisteddfod.

Darren Preston, who owns Books Llangollen in Castle Street, has been on holiday over there and spotted the postcard while browsing at the store in the town of Murchison on the country’s South Island. 

The sharp black and white image shows a young lady, in traditional Welsh costume of high hat and apron, posing for the camera on what looks like the original eisteddfod field with a row of tents in the background. 

* Film footage showing girls wearing similar badges.

And now Darren, who previously owned Maxine's cafe in the building below his current bookshop from 1991, would love to try and find out who she is.

He said “I got it from a shop named Dust & Rust. The guy there said it came in with some old postcards.

“The back of the photo could say ‘July 1951’ but it was written in 1952.

“It also looks like someone in Christchurch was going to do some research on it.”

Doing research of his own Darren has been looking at an online copy of a famous British Pathe News cine film showing the 1952 eisteddfod.

* Darren Preston who discovered the old postcard.

He believes that the badge being worn by the girl in the photo is the same as ones as those seen on the capes of three other girls in one of the sequences.   

Karen Price, an eisteddfod board trustee, has seen a copy of the picture Darren discovered and reckons a rare memento of the eisteddfod’s early days has come to light.

She said: “It’s a great find on the part of Darren and it’s incredible that someone from Llangollen has found it all the way over on the other side of the world.

* The Dust & Rust vintage shop in Murchison, New Zealand.

“It also shows the truly international reach the festival has had over so many years.

“Like Darren we’d be fascinated to discover who the young lady is and, if we can locate her, we’d be delighted to welcome her back to next year’s eisteddfod.”  

* If you have any idea on who the mystery girl might be, please call: 01978 862000.

Story highlights success of new Llangollen gym

Denbighshire Free Press is highlighting how a champion strongwoman is celebrating the overwhelming success of her new gym in Llangollen.

In 2021, Jemma 'Stubbs' Stubbington became the first Welsh woman to win the title of Britain’s Strongest Woman.

She has recently opened the new Stubbs Strength and Performance Centre at Mile End Mill on the outskirts of town.

* For the full story, see: https://www.denbighshirefreepress.co.uk/news/23999958.new-llangollen-gym-going-strength-strength/?ref=socialflow&fbclid=IwAR2V3Q2N0dvj7Mcg3JxdnUd3HbV_0FSQC0itaxuz1AVOvpqHjQ3u_pjWagM