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 Castle and Castle Street
Mold Road - Rhos Street - Brynhyfryd
Well Street - Railway - Record Street
Clwyd Street - Mwrog Street (This page)
The top of Clwyd Street from the Square, with the old Exmewe House on the left corner. Another John Thomas image.
Here, Clwyd Street to the right was much wider - the impressive shops on the left side were built in the 1870s. Before then the open space was the meat market.
The 1926 demolition of Exmewe House
The Boar's Head, date unknown - happily it still exists.
Eldon House in Clwyd Street is now Cafe Nest.
This was once The George in Clwyd Street, here a shop, and since 1970 is Trefor Jones, tailors.
Castle Bell. When it became a store in the late 19C. this frontage was added.
'Beating the Bounds in Clwyd Street.
A 1920s photo of the event - organised by the Town Council for schoolchildren, to walk the perimeter of the parish. The fine array of 16C. buildings is still largely extant.
A view up towards the Upper Clwyd Sreet junction by John Thomas. Note the old cottages on the left and right. The nearest on the right is now a butcher's, previously the Talbot Hotel.
Here is the birthplace of Gladys Roberts, who along with Megan Lloyd George, was the first female MP from Wales.
The same view from a little further down the road, with the facade of the Gaol to the left.
The Town Mill. (3 views)
This started life as the Garrison Chapel for the Castle, as still witnessed by some architectural details.
It is one of the oldest buildings in the town.
It is now residential, after a tasteful conversion, with the main features still recognisable.
The old mill race can still be traced in Cae Ddol, and in extreme weather it can still fill with water, contributing to the flooding of Mill Street and lower Clwyd Street.
A group of human remains dating from c.1350, have been found in this area, which would coincide with the arrival of the Black Death in 1349.
Mwrog Street is the widest in Ruthin.
A natural stream, the Afon Arfon, which ran down the middle of the street had been covered over - culverted - in 1884, by the time this photo was taken.
Ellis's mineral water works was one of two in the town, using water from the underlying aquifer. There is now a small residential are on this site.
Leaving the town, Mwrog Street rises to the hamlet of Llanfwrog
The building on the right, with the steps, was the 'Labour in Vain' inn.
This is believed to show local villagers arriving in town for Show Day, which was held in late August.
