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Colwyn Bay Heritage
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We are the Colwyn Bay Heritage Group. Check us out here: https://colwynbayheritage.org.uk Making the heritage and history of the Colwyn Bay area (Old Colwyn and Rhos on Sea too) accessible to all. Here too for Wales, history, antiquities and nostalgia.
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A brown bear on tiptoes, stretching up for some tasty fruit in this Roman floor mosaic! 🐻 🍎

From Trier (ancient Augusta Treverorum). 3rd century AD.

Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Trier.
📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
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#PowerAndPride2025 The Dyche Collection (MS 2912) is a photographic collection representing migration to Birmingham from Africa, the Caribbean, Indian Sub-Continent and Ireland after 1945 theironroom.wordpress.com/2021/03/01/e... #LibraryofBham @blackhistorymonth.org.uk
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Illuminated page from the MacRegol or Rushworth Gospels. Dating to the early 9th century, it was written and illuminated by Mac Regol, Abbot of Birr in County Offaly, Ireland. Now part of the collections at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxfordshire. 📷 My own. #ManuscriptMonday
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Reflecting on a great working weekend on Ynys Môn/Anglesey with an incredible team of people from #OpNightingale, Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum, DIO & Manchester Uni

Well done, once again, to the brilliant @richardosgood.bsky.social for getting us all together 👌. Watch this space
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#MosaicMonday

#Mosaic floor with #Orpheus playing the lyre and mythological #animals; from an oratory of a tomb in #Jerusalem.

#Roman Imperial Period Late Antiquity - Archaeological Museum in #Istanbul

#ancient #art #mythology #Archaeology
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#WhatWeLeftBehind is here! It's the story of 5 #evacuee children from London's East End who turn librarian Dodie Fitznorton's life upside down when they're billeted at her mansion in #Wales during #WW2. Thank you to everyone who has read and reviewed the book. It means the world to me. #bookstoread
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I unearthed this recently. Taken by a talented photographer friend of mine in the 80s, it's of a stone circle near Nannerch in Flintshire. It's an oddity because it's not mentioned by local expert Ellis Davies in a work of 1949 and Aubrey Burl dismisses it as a folly. [Cont:
#StandingStoneSunday
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Two floating heads: all that's left of the medieval stained glass in the lonely little church of Llanychan in North Wales.
#StainedGlassSunday
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An Anglo-Saxon brooch from the collections of Northampton Museum and Art Gallery. The brooch was discovered in the early nineteenth century at St. Andrew’s Hospital in Northampton. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #Northampton
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Detail from the 15th century rood screen of St. Mary’s Church at Pulham in Norfolk depicting St. John, including a dragon filled chalice! 📸 My own. #ScreenSaturday #Pulman #Norfolk
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18/10/25
Mynydd Mawr efo @Didens6 🥾⛰️🐘

⛰️ Foel Rûdd (1,880 ft) •
⛰️ Mynydd Mawr (2,290 ft) •
⛰️ Bryn Cwellyn (853 ft) •

📍Man cychwyn:
Rhyd Ddu

///hedegog.ieithoedd.sgript
SH56655263

🥾6 milltir•
⛰️ 2,047’ esgyniad•
⏳ 2.5 awr•
⚠️ Anaddas i bramiau•
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De Morgan tile in situ at Blackwell, from 2025
These incredible lustre tiles by William De Morgan (1839-1917) were on a fireplace in a bedroom at lovely #Blackwell House, near #Windermere.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPink #tiles #flowers #ArtsAndCrafts #art #Cumbria
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Prince Madoc (or Madog ab Owain Gwynedd) was a Welsh prince who, according to folklore, sailed across the Atlantic in 1170, more than 300 years before Columbus.
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Today is the 112th anniversary of the Senghenydd colliery disaster.

The blast on October 14, 1913, killed 439 men and boys, with another dying during rescue operations. It was, and remains, the worst coal mining disaster in British history and also the sixth worst in the world.
Here Be Dragons - The Senghenydd Explosion
YouTube video by Here Be Dragons
youtu.be
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Pleased to spot a lively Jack Snipe today at RSPB Conwy from the Foel Fras screen. It turns out another one was being watched at the same time from the Carneddau hide. Videos don't do it justice as it was quite distant and in poor light. #birdingwales
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📚🚨 SALE ENDS IN 2 WEEKS 📚🚨

We have 70% off in our new academic year sale!

Celebrate the start of a new term with some fantastic discounts ⤵️

www.uwp.co.uk/sel-sale/
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In Welsh mythology, the giant king is named Brân, a word that means "crow" or "raven". His name directly connects him to the raven and crow, reinforcing the bird's association with kingship in Celtic lore.
Art my own.

#FolkyFriday #WelshMythology #Folklore #Crow
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#FindsFriday I read recently that Harrier pilots in the 1980s, having completed their very first Vertical Take Off & Landing (VTOL), drank a 'down in one' from a ceremonial 2 pint tankard in the Officer's Mess..

Some things don't change..

🍻 4 pint Iron Age tankard, Langstone

📷 Amgueddfa Cymru
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Oh my god Melvyn Bragg is stepping down from In Our Time 😭
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Ar y diwrnod hwn, ym 1905, ganwyd Arthur Edwin Stevens ym Mhanteg, Sir Fynwy. Daeth ei gymhorthion clyw yn adnabyddus ac fe'u gwisgwyd gan bobl fel Winston Churchill.
In the mid 1920s Sydney Colwyn Foulkes was asked by Mrs Annie Guy to design a house. A wealthy widow, she had moved to Colwyn Bay from Wednesbury. Her husband was the first person to export bicycle frames to America. #colwynbay #baecolwyn #northwales #gogleddcymru #wales #architecture #localhistory
The Wren's Nest, Lansdowne Road - Colwyn Bay Heritage Group
The work of local architect Sidney Colwyn Foulkes.
colwynbayheritage.org.uk