'Ello 'ello 'ello! 100 police truncheons and bludgeons up for auction in Newbury
The wooden truncheons date from the Victorian Period to the 1960s, estimated to fetch £8,000 by SAS.
Source: newburytoday.co.uk
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The Westgate Inn and its musket ball holes | South Wales Argus
For decades, numerous youngsters have succumbed to the temptation of pushing their fingers into the holes in the pillars of the Westgate Hotel.
Source: southwalesargus.co.uk
The Mold Riot: The forgotten history of Flintshire's coal mining
The north of Wales is rarely thought of as a coal mining area, but the Mold riots of 1869 were caused by the arrests of colliers, and led to the…
Source: thenational.wales
Nostalgia: The people who have the Freedom of Newport
Albert Newman A few years passed before the next freeman was installed in 1927. Appropriately it was Albert Newman, retiring town clerk after 40 years - a great and exceptional honour for a council official. Jimmy Thomas He was followed by an old Pill boy in 1924, the Rt Hon James 'Jimmy’ Thomas, MP for Derby for many years, a privy councillor and a Cabinet minister in the Ramsey McDonald and Baldwin governments. Thomas Parry It was in 1927 when Alderman Thomas Parry was elevated to the elite group for his outstanding services to civic life over 33 years. It was he who inaugurated the...
Source: southwalesargus.co.uk