#Denbighshire

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Sweet Carolina

‘This beautifully coloured wood duck, also known as the Carolina duck, was happily feeding with the local ducks by the lake at Cae Ddol Park in Ruthin, Denbighshire. It made my day.’

Photograph: Helen Evans

#helen evans #photographer #carolina duck #duck #cae ddol park #ruthin #denbighshire #nature #bird photography

[callumreuben]

#north wales #loggerheads #loggerheads country park #denbighshire #beautiful #cows #nature #summer #walks #home #adventure #travel #travel blog #travel photography #explore #wanderlust #traveling

[liverpoollomo]

Llangollen. Zorki 4. Ilford Ortho Plus.

I could not resist taking my Zorki 4 when i went for a trip to Langollen with a friends a few months ago. I could go back with any number of cameras and be inspired. It is a truly beautiful part of the world.

#liverpool #liverpoollomo #lomo #lomography #analogue photography #zorki 4 #rangefinder #russian camera #ilford ortho plus #orthochromatic film #80 iso #black and white film #35mm film #Llangollen #north wales #Denbighshire #river dee #cymru #film is not dead #don't think just shoot

[paulofcongleton]

Llangollen, January 2022

#Llangollen #Denbighshire #North Wales #Wales #UK #Bowling Green #Bowling #Club #Pitch #Digital #Sony #RX100 #photographersontumblr #Places

[martyn7985]

Denbighshire County Council is seeking an operator for the Queen’s Market in Rhyl

Denbighshire County Council is seeking an operator for the Queen’s Market in Rhyl #Rhyl #Denbighshire #Queensmarket

Work to create a mixed use development in the centre of Rhyl is progressing and the Council is now commencing the process to secure an operator to manage the development. The Queen’s Market will be located in the newly developed Queens Building and will provide a mixed-use hall, offering a collection of Artisan eateries, retail and events space. The development includes 18 individual units,…

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#Denbighshire #Denbighshire County Council #North Wales #Queens Building #Queens Market #Rhyl

[rchayward]

Denbigh castle #denbighshire #denbighcastle #castle #wales https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch5Bcb1sd4b/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#denbighshire #denbighcastle #castle #wales

[robert-riley-photography]

Rhuddlan Castle - Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, North Wales 📍🏰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📸

#Rhuddlan Castle - Rhuddlan #Denbighshire #North Wales 📍🏰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Rhuddlan RhuddlanCastle Denbighshire NorthWales Castles Wales

[don-lichterman]

We tried the Green Island vegan restaurant which recently won the coveted North Wales cafe of the year award - Thomas Lewis

We tried the Green Island vegan restaurant which recently won the coveted North Wales cafe of the year award – Thomas Lewis

I have a confession to make. I’m not a vegan (as anyone who has read or watched my takeaway reviews will tell you). Despite that, I have been to Green Island Bistro a few times before and always been impressed by the warm welcome, extensive menu and tasty dishes. Recently, they won the highly coveted North Wales Cafe of the Year award– a fantastic achievement for any establishment. Located just…

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#Denbighshire #Featured #North Wales Food and Drink #Rhuddlan

[csinstagram]

#https://www.canopyandstars.co.uk/britain/wales/denbighshire/the-forge/bluebell-corner-cornel-clychau-r-gog

[hellopestcontrolblog]

Wasp control in Denbighshire

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#Wasp control in Denbighshire

[callumreuben]

#north wales #loggerheads #loggerheads country park #denbighshire #beautiful #views #devil's gorge #nature #gorge #summer #walks #home #adventure #travel #travel blog #travel photography #explore #wanderlust #traveling

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Eisteddfod Chairs: Pick Your Winner!

It's almost June! Nearly time to reveal the 2023 Chair! So come, gather round Tumblrs, let me tell you of the furniture-based customs of my people

So Wales has been celebrating Eisteddfodau (festivals of poetry, music, and disco dancing), in some form or another, since at least the 1100s, when Lord Rhys of Dinefwr had one all formal-like and made it into a big fun party and that. The word basically means 'sitting place', and probably refers to the way people in summer would gather round the twmpath in the village to listen to bards that passed through and drink mead and shout 'hurrah!' a lot. Amazingly, this is not where the Chair Thing comes from.

Part of Welsh history is the Bardic Age, and it was custom for bards to travel the country and visit the courts of assorted gentry types (also normal people's houses and taverns and twmpaths but let's stay on topic) and play for them. If the lord paid well, great; if not, the bard would write a Super Mean Song about them and sing it everywhere, so they were pretty well treated.

But if they were particularly good, rather than making them play for the WHOLE meal, the lord would offer them a chair at the table to join in the feast as a guest, rather than a worker, and THAT is where the Chair Thing comes from.

Anyway that's preamble to say that every year in the biggest Eisteddfod of all - the Eisteddfod Genedlaethol - the highest honour awarded goes to the Prifardd - the bard who writes the winning cywydd (super complex Welsh poetry WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO EXPLAIN ALL OF THIS). And the prize for writing the winning cywydd is that you are awarded, you guessed it, the Chair.

Now these Chairs (capital C, please, we like a bit of Fantasy Novel Capitalisation and for this cultural reason I will never understand people who complain about it) are unique. They are thrones. They are carved each year by one chosen carpenter, who crafts a one-of-a-kind Chair with symbolism and that, never to be replicated. They usually have the year carved on, but otherwise, they vary wildly in aesthetic and symbolism. In a No Award year (because Eisteddfod judges don't subscribe to the Western idea that there HAS to be a first, second and third place; if no one is good enough there is no award, and I have seen choir competitions for seven year olds where there was no first or third place but there were two choirs in joint second), the Chair is sent back to the carpenter who carved it, and they get to keep it. In a year where the bard died before the ceremony, it is draped in black, and given to next of kin.

(That has only happened once. RIP Hedd Wyn, 1887-1917. Also the only reproduced Chair; the original, known as the Gadair Ddu (the Black Chair) is on display in his family home, but a 3D printed replica has been made for display by Amgueddfa Cymru)

BUT THEREFORE a big part of Eisteddfod fun is seeing what the Chair will look like this year. Traditional ones, see, we tend to think look like variants of this:

(Apologies for the substandard attempts at alt-text; I have no clue how to describe these properly)

This one is from 1896. The phrase "Y gwir yn erbyn y byd" means "The truth against the world", and was included in a lot of old ones. Modern ones tend to incorporate the druidic symbol for awen ("poetic inspriation") instead. Some of these incidentally turn up in lil' chapels and that about the country.

But actually even the old ones were mad different, look; clockwise from top left, these are y Gadair Ddu (1917), 1876, 1926 (when the carpenter was Chinese and enjoyed the cultural fusion), and 1908.

Still the same theme, though, but in the modern day the carpenters are all off the shits! They're all over the place! Fuck the rules! And I have Opinions.

Category: I See What You Did There

SYMBOLISM!!! 2011 is a pit wheel from Wrexham's mining past! 2013 is the head of a harp, from Denbighshire's cultural harp-making past! 2017 is fish, from Anglesey's maritime present! Fantastic. Love it.

Best in category: 2017. Why does Anglesey's have so many eyes on the fish? We don't know. Wylfa B protestors reportedly furious.

Category: The Modern Throne

TALL!!! That silhouette! That height!! They have the range, darling! Christ knows 2016 doesn't have anything else going for it! Shout out to the Conwy river on 2019, the different woods from the forests of Maldwyn for 2015, and the red kite symbolism for Ceredigion in 2022 (the spiritual home of the bird, where the species was first saved).

Best in category: 2019, Conwy. I like the bridge and the river lines and the water effect on the front of the seat it's just so pretty.

Category: That's Just A Chair

(I am actually friends with the Prifardd who won 2018 at the bottom there :D )

WHAT ARE RULES WE JUST WANT FUNCTIONAL CHAIRS. Man even so 2014 was fucking ugly. You could have 2018 in your house. Around your table, like. Even 2012 has a sort of IKEA vibe that's boring but palatable. 2014 is only coming in the house under sufferance.

Best in Category: 2018, easy, and not just because it's the one I'm most likely to get to sit in one day. It's pretty.

Category: NO GODS NO CHAIRS NO MASTERS

WHAT

WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED IN 2010

BRO I DO NOT THINK YOU TRIED

Best in Category: OBVIOUSLY 2021 I COULD PHYSICALLY MAKE 2010 MYSELF

#wales! #closed for cleaning on mondays #long post

[llyfrenfys]

So I made Pride versions of the flags of the 13 Historic Counties of Wales:

This is the map of Wales with each county flag edited with pride colours! The palette I used was the final Gilbert Baker pride flag which he created before he died. Just for fun and these are free to use with credit.

(Note: several flags are proposed flags, since some counties have not registered official flags yet)

Column 1: Glamorganshire, Cardiganshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire

Column 2: Monmouthshire, Caernarfonshire, Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Radnorshire

Column 3: Ynys Môn, Flintshire, Brecknockshire, Denbighshire

#eyestrain #lukes originals #bright colours #bright colors #cymraeg #welsh #cwiar #cymru #gilbert baker flag #gilbert baker #lavender stripe #flag edit #county flags #flags of Wales #Wales

[paulofcongleton]

Llantysilio, January 2022

#Llantysilio #Llangollen #Denbighshire #Wales #North Wales #UK #Suspension #Bridge #Hotel #River #Winter #Sony #RX100 #Places

[martyn7985]

Rhyl Air Show ‘taking a break’ as Red Arrows announce international tour to celebrate their 60 year season anniversary

The award winning Rhyl Air Show is taking a break this year, following the announcement of the Red Arrows 60th season anniversary international tour this Summer. The Red Arrows have been an integral part of the show line up in past years and the decision has been taken not to run the show in 2024 without them. This news follows various other air shows across the UK deciding not to run their…

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#Air Show #Denbighshire County Council #North Wales #Rhyl

[guerrerense]

Locomotive #5199 approaching Carrog station por Welsh Photographs Por Flickr: The Llangollen Railway is a volunteer-run heritage railway in Denbighshire, North Wales, which operates between Llangollen and Corwen. The standard gauge line, which is 10 miles long, runs on part of the former Ruabon – Barmouth GWR route that closed in 1965.