Hanes / History

In January 2018 Miriam Sanders, a local fundraiser for the Royal British Legion, had the idea of draping St Eleth Church in poppies to commemorate the centenary of the end of WW1. What started with a few locals meeting in the church to knit and crochet poppies soon escalated via social media and the local…

On Wednesday, February 20th, 1828: James Webster, the proprietor of the Parys Mountain sulphuric acid works, stands in the window of his home, Fudrol, observing the huge funeral procession as it makes its way to St. Eleth’s Church; he is full of memories. It is the funeral of Cadi Rondol, or Catherine Randal as recorded…

The Whitfield family came to live in Bull Bay in 1976 and Andy attended Amlwch Primary School and then Syr Thomas Jones until the age of 18;   he moved to Sheffield to attend University for 4 years where he attained a degree in Civil Engineering. In 1999 he and Vashti moved to Sydney to follow…

Records show that prior to the construction of the present Roman Catholic Church in Amlwch masses were presumed to have taken place in a ‘stable’ at the back of the Dinorben Hotel.  In 1932 a better centre was secured in Mona Street, but during that year the foundations for the new church on Bull Bay…

Mae’r Cyngor Tref yn brysur yn gosod meinciau newydd led led y dref – o Borth Amlwch i Borth Llechog! Bydd nifer o rhain yn rhan o lwybr treftadaeth yn rhannu hanes am leoedd a phobl o ddiddordeb yn ein cymuned. Bydd rhai hefyd yn cael eu mabwysiadu er cof am drigolion ein bro. Os…