CYMDEITHAS HANES LLEOL RHUTHUN
RUTHIN LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY
Images from Ruthin's Past Page under development
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
People and Events (This page)
A Ruthin Fire Brigade parade. c.1912.
The brigade won a national award at a Hyde Park event in 1916
A 'triumphal arch' erected on market street to celebrate one of the more public visits of the Prince of Wales - later King Edward VII - to Ruthin. This was on the route from the station to the Square.
Interestingly the arch bears a legend in Cymraeg, at a time when the use of Welsh was most strongly discouraged.
On the same occasion in 1899, another banner in Welsh. Harris's drapery store occupies the corner premises.
Dick Nancy, gravedigger and local character.
He was only 4ft. 10in. tall.
Ruthin Town Band.
The bandmaster was John Edwards, father of 21 children.
Borthyn School, approx. 1910
Borthyn was (and is) a. Anglican Church school.
Non-conformist children attended Rhos Street School
Hurdy-Gurdy man........
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... with his horse-drawn machine and monkey!
An official gathering below the castle walls, part of the 1868 National Eisteddfod.
The organising committee and other officials of the 1868 Eisteddfod.
A town centre ox-roast to celebrate peace - this was 1919.
On the right are Mrs. Cornwallis -West, friend of the Prince of Wales, and Godfrey Lecomber, whose story is told elsewhere on the website.
Another ceremony on the Square, as part of the 1919 peace celebrations.
Dick Dunn, originally from Stoke but arrived in Ruthin after the war, where he suffered wounds and shell shock.
He was a vagrant, doing odd jobs around local farms, and it was the farmers who paid for this headstone in Llanrhydd cemetery.
He is still remembered in town by some people who knew him in their younger days.
John Edwards, Bandmaster
A wonderful portrait by John Thomas of a Ruthin plasterer, unfortunately his name is not recorded.
'Watcyn' (Williams??) a local character known for his attendance at funerals.
He was brought up in Ruthin Workhouse.
Borthyn School
1924
Not Ruthin, but hear are the inmates of two nearby workhouses:
Cerrigydrudion (above)
Ysbyty Ifan (below)
