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Remembering the July 1st 1968 floods which devastated Welshpool in Powys

Welshpool Town Hall cellar will not be part of any renovation of the building due to costs.

Powys woke up to closed roads and businesses and residents in one village were asked to prepare to evacuate by Powys County Council after flood…

Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte’s advance across Europe had been slowed. French and German prisoners of war were placed on parole across the country, including rural Wales with Llanfyllin, Montgomery, Newtown and Welshpool becoming home to hundreds. Records of 300 prisoners being marched through Kerry toward Newtown Some were also imprisoned in Oswestry and Bishop’s Castle. A total of 148 had been stationed in Llanfyllin alone, many together in two large houses at Bachie Place and the ...