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Historic maps of Gyfelia and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Gyfelia maps
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Ruabon| Erddig| Rhosllanerchrugog| Erbistock| Penycae| Bersham| Rhosymedre| Acrefair| Newbridge| Cefn Mawr| Wrexham| Trevor| Bangor-Is-Coed| Froncysyllte| Coedpoeth| Garth| Chirk| Gwersyllt| Minera| St Martins| Gresford| Bronygarth| Weston Rhyn| Penley| Holt| Pontfadog| Farndon| Rhydtalog
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Clwyd memories
The Good Times at Middle Sontley
My first visit to Middle Sontley was in the late 1970s and I was made welcome by the kind owner, Mr Neville Roberts. Part of the farm was being transformed. Mr Roberts had bought land from the closed down Hafod Colliery that consisted of a derelict house, marshy fields and a black muddy brook. He amazingly transformed this bleak area into a place of beauty that attracted an abundance of wildlife and fish in the three lakes he created out of the horrible black marshy area. Today you would not recognise what was previously a settling area for coal-dust-laden water from the colliery. His house is historic and, with Mr Roberts' permission, worth viewing, especially the well in the kitchen!
Wynnstay Hall
The building is Wynnstay Hall, former home of the Williams-Wynne family, and was rebuilt following a major fire in 1858.
Ruabon
I was born in Ruabon in 1935 at No1 Church Walks, obviously near the church.
I lived there until I left for University in 1953 and later moved to Gresford.
School Days
I attended Ruabon Girls Grammar School from 1954 to 1959, happy days. At that time we were taught in 'the huts', we did not get the new school until the year before we left. I now live near the school but all that is left is one brick block of the boys school. I lived in Cefn Mawr and in the summer often walked home from school along Offa's Dyke.
Rhosymadoc
I don't really know too much about the area other than my grandparents lived at Pen-y-nant, Rhosymadoc until the mid 1990s. Any info would be greatly received.
That Smell
When i was young i moved to manchester from Rhos but cam back lots to viset my Nain and Tiad in Johnstown and i alwys remember the smell of the smoke coming from the chimnys. i loved to smell the air while in the car going down High st. i have moved back now but it dose not smell the same any more.
Emma, Rhos. xxxxxxx
Singing in Rhos
The great thing about Rhos as far as I am concerned was the fantastic wealth of singers in that village (it was the largest village in Wales). I lived at that time in Rhostyllen, a couple of miles away from Rhos, and I loved going to the Miners Welfare Club, especially on Sundays. Wales on Sundays was dry in those days so all the men in the area went to that club for a drink at dinner time (clubs were exempt from the general no drinking laws)- that is lunch time to all the rest of the UK. After a few pints of beer and a game of bingo the whole place would erupt with marvellous male voices singing as though they were one huge choir. I would usually be in the company of my dad (I was the non drinking driver in those days), and he having an exceptionally good voice would be asked to get up on the stage and give a solo rendition of one or two... Read more
