CYMDEITHAS HANES LLEOL RHUTHUN
RUTHIN LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY
Images from Ruthin's Past
The Roger Edwards Collection
December 2024
Roger has provided 88 images from his collection of historical images of Ruthin. Scroll down and enjoy! Please contact us if you can offer more information on the content / date of these pictures.
The images are mainly grouped by street /district:
Ruthin County School for Girls established 1891 - only the second Grammar School for girls in Wales.
This photo is believed to show the entire school cohort.
The building had been a private house and is now the Sixth Form Centre for Brynhyfryd School.
Known locally as the Brynhyfryd Schoolroom.
Demolished in the 1970s and the site is now the road entrance to Bryn Eryl.
The building had several uses, including meeting rooms and social facilities (e.g. billiards) and was once the base for 'Lady Huntington's Connexion' - a branch of the Calvinistic Methodists.
Rose Cottage, Rhos Street.
A John Thomas photograph.
This cottage has been refurbished and listed, but the adjacent buildings have gone.
Note the square of wattle and daub visible in the end wall.
The row of cottages beyond occupy the site if what is now the road entrance to Haulfryn estate.
Beyond can be seen part of the roof of Capel y Rhos, which still stands, until recently having been an equipment storage unit for the Post Office.
Rhos Street School
Shortly after opening, c,1848.
The building is currently (2014) empty as the school has moved to a modern site at Glasdir, and its fate has yet to be determined.
Hopefully the facade, at least, can be retained and a suitable use for the building found.
More information on the school's history here.
The Ship Inn, Rhos Street.
This fine 16th/17th century building was demolished in 1968. Some consider its destruction to be an act of corporate vandalism.
It was supposed to be rebuilt at the Museum of Welsh History at St. Fagans, but that failed to materialise.
The building was on the corner of Wernfechan (note the sign) and Rhos Street, where there is now a wider road and a small grassed area in fornt of the fish shop.
The Ship Inn, Rhos Street.
This interesting window of The Ship shows what we have lost in terms of a heritage building.
A view along Rhos Street looking towards the Mold Road.
The Ship is on the left, the Anchor Inn on the right. The Anchor still stands but is no longer named, having been repurposed (c. 2012? as a boarding house for Ruthin School students.
The site of The Ship is now a road junction.
