tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80486250032064837962024-03-14T06:57:16.475+00:00Edge House ~~ 1888 ~~ Bron-y-GraigHistory, home and holidays in the heart of North WalesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-15501206610236017312014-06-14T12:25:00.001+01:002014-06-14T12:25:27.372+01:00<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Birds at Bron-y-Graig</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To our great pleasure the wagtails are back at Bron-y-Graig. None of us can work out if they are yellow wagtails or the slightly more common grey wagtail - which has a confusing amount of yellow on it - but we are thrilled to see them again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last year they didn't manage to raise any chicks but this year they are on their second brood. They nest in the Dublin Bay climbing rose beside the Stables so we ask our guests not to disturb them if they can help it. The birds are very cunning - you never see them fly direct to their nest - as soon as they spot you they won't go near it. I have only once seen the parents feed the first brood, and that was after spending half an hour crouching behind the quarry wall so they forgot about me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's the only photo I managed to get</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We always have the odd - and I mean odd - pheasant poking about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I write this I can hear small birds cheeping somewhere which probably means there are bluetits in Room 5's gables again. And there is a big swallow?housemartin? nest in the highest gable beside Room 6.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-51355808915212922522013-12-18T11:39:00.000+00:002013-12-18T11:39:00.257+00:00Respected Friend (18 December 1858)<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We are in receipt of your favor of yesterday
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-42635170694984301282013-10-17T11:50:00.000+01:002013-10-17T11:50:00.419+01:00Soap & Currants<br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The whole came to £84, 1/- 4d
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think the underlined writing
at the bottom says </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: 36pt;"><b>by Gwydir Castle </b></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">which could be the name of a
ship, indicating that the goods were brought into Wales from Liverpool by sea. </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I cannot read the second
underlined word although it may be a signature as it is followed by the payment due date </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="text-indent: 36pt;">Nov 18</span><sup style="text-indent: 36pt;">th</sup><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> –
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There were no envelopes in those days so the invoice was folded for
posting and addressed on the other side to </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Mr
Ellis Thomas, G</span>rocer, Penmachno, Nr
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-10027001507479677312013-05-22T10:38:00.000+01:002013-05-22T10:38:01.049+01:00Ships Supplied on the Shortest Notice (22 May 1839)<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-26074288160567246672013-05-18T22:49:00.004+01:002013-05-18T22:49:41.745+01:00Bye Bye Box Hedge<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Rtqkdg8XI4/UZfywdEDurI/AAAAAAAAAWw/WcqGIEYg_Q8/s1600/byebyebox_001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Rtqkdg8XI4/UZfywdEDurI/AAAAAAAAAWw/WcqGIEYg_Q8/s200/byebyebox_001.JPG" width="149" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today we got round to a project we'd been thinking about for ages - removing the box hedge from the front garden. It's probably about 100 years old and when first planted must have been small and smart. In the 20-odd years since we've been here it's become a monster, looming over the flowerbed, sucking out all the nutrients and bulging so fatly you can't get on to the lawn. Last month's freak snow was the final straw - the hedge was leaning drunkenly forwards. It had to go. The first picture is taken from Room 1 looking down on the huge hedge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Taking off the outer greenery revealed a horrid tangle of naked branches. At this point the gardeners among you are probably reeling with horror at this arboreal vandalism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To be honest we have no idea whether the box hedge will survive. It may - we had to cut back the box hedge on the upper terrace a couple of years ago after a hard winter, and it put out green shoots after a year. So this is a "wait and see" job. I now have a flower bed which has doubled in size!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-72864381891726323992013-04-30T10:27:00.000+01:002013-04-30T10:27:00.141+01:00Williams’ Lozenges (27 April 1859)<br />
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April 1859, is from Evans, Sons & Co, Wholesale Druggists, and gives their
address as 31 Fleet Street in Liverpool, where they had a Mills and Laboratory.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It simply lists the purchase of
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Evans continued as a firm into
the 20<sup>th</sup> century and this advertisement for smoker’s pastilles is
from July 1917. The company was
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invoice, dated 28 April 1840, lists a sale of “camp ovens and covers”. The name of the company selling the goods is
Carron, which I remember as a maker of stoves, and which survives today as part
of Carron Phoenix.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Carron was
one of the largest suppliers of ironmongery in Britain in the 19<sup>th</sup>
Century. It was set up in 1759 beside
the river Carron in Falkirk, Scotland.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9iOd8msCFKA/UQ0ud-2xRVI/AAAAAAAAAOY/TZ-SXn4tu60/s1600/campoven.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9iOd8msCFKA/UQ0ud-2xRVI/AAAAAAAAAOY/TZ-SXn4tu60/s1600/campoven.bmp" /></span></b></a><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A
camp oven was a cast iron pot with short legs to enable it to stand in the
coals and have air circulating below; a tight fitting lid to prevent ash
entering and a handle for allowing you to hang it above the fire. Carron exported these pots across the British
Empire and such pots, called Falkirk Pots, are still in use in Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <span lang="EN-US">Also listed on the invoice are griddles – used for cooking welsh cakes –
and pots. </span>The total bill for 6 ovens, 6 griddles and 6 pots was £2.11.8 (two
pounds, eleven shillings and eightpence).
Note that a discount of 7 shillings and eightpence was applied.</span></b><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-8666268116401333532013-04-03T14:51:00.000+01:002013-04-03T14:51:00.272+01:00Cocoa & Confectionery <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is 2 pages of Morris & Jones' wholesale grocery price list from 1889. I was amazed at the amount of cocoa but should not have been so surprised, really, considering the huge role chocolate products still play in our shopping today. The salesman has annotated his list with extra products including the delicious-sounding Vanilla Choc Cocoa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By contrast to the half a page for cocoa there's only one line for Cod Liver Oil. I don't recognize any of the coffee brands but I remember Brown & Polson Cornflour, and of course you can still buy Bird's Custard Powder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Confectionery apart from chocolate seemed to be concentrated on lozenges - including Cayenne Lozenges which sound like something out of Harry Potter. The salesman has written a note that American Lozenges are "going very slowly".</span><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-86672687449036985992013-03-28T18:04:00.000+00:002013-03-28T18:04:00.127+00:00A Bit of a Bad Lot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This photo from the Edge House Archives shows the Roberts family in the 1870's. The two boys are Robert and Elizabeth's sons and the chap on the right is his ne'er do well nephew, who was entrusted to the family's care when they moved to Edge House. Apparently a charming and well-loved young man he unfortunately had a drink problem. A billiard room was built on the top lawn to provide him with somewhere to relax without causing embarrassment to the family. When we had to dismantle it in 1990 we found a cache of beer and cough mixture bottles beneath the wooden floor.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-5473257840085724572013-03-25T16:51:00.000+00:002013-03-25T16:51:00.509+00:00William Rathbone, MP, 25 March 1884<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mCJ0cYSUXEo/UQ_vm3rZtPI/AAAAAAAAAVs/oq2yZaGwceM/s1600/March+25+1884+petitions+rules.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mCJ0cYSUXEo/UQ_vm3rZtPI/AAAAAAAAAVs/oq2yZaGwceM/s400/March+25+1884+petitions+rules.jpg" width="258" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This letter to Rees Roberts is from William Rathbone, MP for Caernarvonshire from 1881 until 1885. He was instrumental in founding the University College of North Wales and was its President from 1891. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here he is writing somewhat testily to Rees Roberts who has clearly committed the heinous crime of going behind his MP's back. For good measure, William Rathbone MP enclosed a list of parliamentary procedures relating to petitions. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dear Sir, I have to acknowledge the receipt of the resolution relating to the Franchised Bill passed at Penmachno on the 19th inst. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am glad to see that the bill is approved of; but may I suggest that it would be better, where such resolutions relate to measures likely, as in this case, to be vigorously supported by your representative, to throw them into the form of a Petition to the House of Commons for him to present. It would thus make him, and Parliament also, acquainted with your views. Yours faithfully, Wm Rathbone.</span></i><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-24389782859430233912013-03-23T11:03:00.000+00:002013-03-23T11:03:00.470+00:009 Harrington Street, Liverpool, 23 March 1859<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U5Z_1WtvjJM/UQ_PzXTipPI/AAAAAAAAAUs/9yvms3vtboQ/s1600/March_23_1859_blueletter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U5Z_1WtvjJM/UQ_PzXTipPI/AAAAAAAAAUs/9yvms3vtboQ/s320/March_23_1859_blueletter.jpg" width="193" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bentham Bowen & Co write to one D Davies & Sons of Penmachno acknowledging payment:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Respected Friend</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are in receipt of your favor of Yesterday enclosing £15.00 - Fifteen Pounds - and we beg to return our best thanks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are, Respectfully, Bentham Bowen & Co.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-39966626776828105462013-03-17T10:45:00.000+00:002013-03-17T10:45:00.836+00:00Per Rails to Conwy, 17 March 1859<span style="font-size: large;">This is a Duty Note - a record of the amount of import tax paid by Bentham Bowen & Co on goods imported for Mr David Davies.</span><br />
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9, Harrington Street</span></div>
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<i>As we have no profit on Money advanced for duties, immediate repayment is necessary, Should delay occur; Interest and Bank Commission will be charged.</i></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-74864596783115107182013-03-11T18:45:00.000+00:002013-03-11T18:45:00.315+00:00Biscuits, Black Lead and Bloater Paste<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pages 2 & 3 from Morris & Jones's April 1889 Price List - it is interesting to note the brand names which we can still recognise such </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Carr's, Jacob's, Peak Frean and Huntley & Palmer biscuits. And Spratt's dog biscuits. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We don't use black lead much any more but judging by the range of products on offer it was a staple product in late Victorian times. It was used to clean and polish stoves and cast-iron fireplaces. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Blue was a whitening product added to the wash. Citrate of Magnesia was a saline laxative - probably useful after you'd enjoyed Capers, Chutney and Cocoa!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-71190475107616292762013-03-04T15:24:00.000+00:002013-03-04T15:24:00.522+00:00A Sticky Situation, 4 March 1839<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">n this, the oldest invoice we have in the Robert Roberts Archive, the wholesaler George Crosfield of Liverpool, writes apologetically to a customer Mr Thomas of Penmachno. Obviously they did not have a large enough stock of treacle so they sent molasses instead</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Respected Friend, we were out of Treacle when we received thy order; it has become very scarce, we hope the above will please. The Sugar Market is at present steady. Kind Respects, Geo Crosfield.</i></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-31897241928803005092013-02-28T12:38:00.000+00:002013-02-28T12:38:00.196+00:00A Sugar Thief (February, 1839)<br />
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wholesale grocer George Crosfield of Liverpool responds to a retail customer
who’s complained of short measure by suggesting that some may have gone missing
in transit:-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><i><b>Respected
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><i style="font-weight: bold;">We
have received thy favour with Bill amount fifty-five pounds and are much
obliged. The Rice and Sugar was
correctly weighed when it left our warehouse as our Clerk can certify and no
mistake because it agreed with the weight charged us </i>(ie for carriage). <i style="font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><i><b>It
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><i><b>Sugar
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><i><b>Yours
respectfully, Geo Crosfield</b></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-52316976470793575952013-02-24T18:30:00.000+00:002013-02-24T18:30:02.364+00:00Morris & Jones<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Kn_n7QTmZUs/UQ1dhdn1biI/AAAAAAAAARs/F0GyFuhLQsI/s1600/M&Jpricepage1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Kn_n7QTmZUs/UQ1dhdn1biI/AAAAAAAAARs/F0GyFuhLQsI/s400/M&Jpricepage1.jpg" width="243" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UF-8JhaeA_0/UQ1dhq11DNI/AAAAAAAAARw/T8LZj0krD80/s1600/M&Jpricecover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UF-8JhaeA_0/UQ1dhq11DNI/AAAAAAAAARw/T8LZj0krD80/s200/M&Jpricecover.jpg" width="125" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Robert David Roberts of Edge House rose from being the shop boy in his uncle Edward Jones' grocery in Llanrwst to a full partner in the firm. In 1878 Edward Jones joined his brother in law, Evan Morris to form Morris and Jones in Liverpool - a Wholesale Grocery & Provision Warehouse. Here's a price list from April 1889.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Over the next few days I aim to scan in for your delectation some examples of pages from the price list. The original is part of the Edge House archive and you can see it if you visit. What is particularly interesting is that the commercial traveller whose book it was has annotated it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For many years their HQ was in Keenora House in Wood Street, Liverpool. By the 1950's it was the largest in the North of England, with businesses in Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and Caernarfon. In the 1960s the firm started a cash & carry business named MoJo, which was later sold to Booker.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-68630861633594385972013-02-17T10:14:00.000+00:002013-02-17T10:14:00.565+00:00A Faithful Dog<br />
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independent in old age. He used
regularly to drive himself between Corwen, Llangollen and Ruthin in his
gig. In 1904 he suffered a stroke
whilst driving home and the event was reported in the newspaper. He did recover from
his stroke and survived until March 1907, although his son took over his
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correspondent was yesterday informed
that Mr R D Roberts, of Bron-y-Graig, Corwen, the High Sheriff of
Denbighshire, was progressing slowly towards recovery, but his removal home
from the White Horse Hotel, Llanfair, near Ruthin, was impossible for at least
a week owing to the shattered condition of his nerves. The High Sheriff was driving home from Ruthin
in the evening when he was suddenly struck with paralysis in his left side, and
a clot of blood formed on his brain, rendering him semi-conscious, and almost
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gig for a considerable time, but the horse was stopped by his collie dog, which
remained on guard until some ladies arrived, finding Mr Roberts in his
lamentable plight. He was removed to
Llanfair, where Dr Byford is in constant attendance.</i></b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-28029078749931418662013-02-13T14:39:00.000+00:002013-02-13T14:39:00.300+00:00Bala Banking Co AGM, 13 February 1872<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Richard Roberts of Edge House was Vice-Chairman of the Bala Banking Company and he chaired the annual general meeting in 1872. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He presented a Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account which showed that the Bank held £3,600, one shilling and tenpence. He was re-elected as a Director.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This document comes from the archive of the Roberts Family held at Edge House.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-31464987609787307982013-02-08T12:00:00.000+00:002013-02-08T12:00:09.191+00:00A Very Victorian Marriage<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_Rm3So6CXg8/UQ1FyXJRWKI/AAAAAAAAAQo/M2Ohg81NmdA/s1600/RDRwho1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_Rm3So6CXg8/UQ1FyXJRWKI/AAAAAAAAAQo/M2Ohg81NmdA/s200/RDRwho1.JPG" width="121" /></a><br />
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joined their father in the company business - and two daughters – Elizabeth and
Christiana. Christiana, his youngest
child, inherited Bron-y-Graig and lived here till her death in 1975. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UtALpUUKbEk/UQ1Z1C4KYYI/AAAAAAAAARc/NUg_Eea0JdM/s1600/RDRwed1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UtALpUUKbEk/UQ1Z1C4KYYI/AAAAAAAAARc/NUg_Eea0JdM/s320/RDRwed1.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This is just a summary of the detailed
family history of the Roberts, written in 2004 by Kenneth Hughes, Christiana’s
nephew. On Kenneth Hughes’ death his
research papers came to Bron-y-Graig, and I am indebted to him for the archive documents - all the originals are available for any visitor to Edge House. </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-89303426044431538572013-02-04T10:40:00.001+00:002013-02-04T10:40:44.460+00:00Breakfast of Chumpions<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zJBhLZZZYo0/UQ-N0BCmdUI/AAAAAAAAATM/id1j7dx0ciE/s1600/2tablefull4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zJBhLZZZYo0/UQ-N0BCmdUI/AAAAAAAAATM/id1j7dx0ciE/s320/2tablefull4.JPG" width="320" /></a>I<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">n the quick visits I pay to other people's B&B sites - which I can classify as actually doing market research as opposed to daydreaming about a weekend break or, let's face it, rather creepy stalking - I realised that while others go to great lengths to describe their breakfast offers, we haven't mentioned it. Which is a bit silly really as we're rather proud of our breakfast spread which is intended to set you up for a hard day's walk in the hills or alternatively standing around for hours at a wedding while other people's best sides are painstakingly discovered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So we acquired some smart new menu folders and this weekend I sat down to re-write the menu, with a view to releasing it into the wilds of the internet. Almost at once I was distracted. What about photos? Twitter loves photos. And so does Facebook. No point doing it without photos. <i>Proper </i>photos of what you really get when you sit down at Edge House's breakfast table, not stockpic cheating. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At once I decided I would cook ALL our breakfast dishes, as soon as the guests had gone. I informed the rest of the household that there would be no Sunday lunch, just never-ending breakfast. I did have enough nous to lay up a selection of tables first, with dummy teas and coffees and juices and some time-expired toast. But I quickly realised there was no way we could cook everything at once, photograph it from as many angles as possible, and then consume it before it became disgustingly congealed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So we did it in waves. About 2.00 pm we ate full cooked breakfasts - including the veggie option - after which we embarked on delicate negotiations as to who would move on to the pancakes, the porridge, or the french toast, and who would have to man up and eat the kippers and yogurt. I love a croissant but perhaps not for tea. By the time we were ready for the next round we had to draw the curtains in the breakfast room so you couldn't see it was pitch black outside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In all the action I forgot take the date and time stamp off the camera. I sat down at my trusty pc this morning and shoved the photocard in. To my horror all have weird, utterly non-breakfast times on them and I have visions of some pedant demanding pancakes at 9.00pm because that's what it says on the website.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-16812925074481322092013-02-02T17:12:00.000+00:002013-02-02T17:12:22.771+00:00Robert David Roberts & Edge House<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7-A4fHKLoYc/UQ1FMI3ISVI/AAAAAAAAAPw/r42qVjI1b60/s1600/rdr%255B1%255D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7-A4fHKLoYc/UQ1FMI3ISVI/AAAAAAAAAPw/r42qVjI1b60/s200/rdr%255B1%255D.JPG" width="163" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bron-y-Graig (Edge House) is largely the creation of Robert David
Roberts, who moved here in 1881. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">He started as assistant in a rural grocer’s
shop and ended his life as High Sheriff of Denbighshire, and a very rich man. Eventually the firm he owned became Morris & Jones of Liverpool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Robert David Roberts (RDR) was born in May
1844 in Maerdy, where his parents were grocers. When he left school he was apprenticed to
another grocer’s shop – David Jones’ Derfel Stores in Llandderfel. In 1862 he moved with the Jones family to
Liverpool – David Jones was taking advantage of the spread of the railway to
set up as a wholesale grocer. RDR
became his first commercial traveller – roving across North Wales with his
pocket book of prices. We have an
example of this list dating from 1889.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">RDR would have used the spreading rail
network but he was famous for using his gig to travel in for over 40 years<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pPOJ0rTE1T4/UQ1F4FbDg2I/AAAAAAAAAQ8/sQxVmINjxPw/s1600/rdrgig%255B1%255D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="130" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pPOJ0rTE1T4/UQ1F4FbDg2I/AAAAAAAAAQ8/sQxVmINjxPw/s200/rdrgig%255B1%255D.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In 1870 RDR was made a partner in the firm
and in the 1870’s and 1880’s the firm went from strength to strength. By December 1876 RD had capital of nearly
£10,000, and by 1881 he had £20,000. This was due in part to the firm’s
innovative approach – they introduced tinned salmon to the UK market and also
speculated in oil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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firm as they left school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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become a highly respected and influential member of Corwen society. He was a Director of the Corwen Water
Company and Corwen Gas Company, and of Penarth Slate Quarry. He was a
Merionethshire County Councillor and a Justice of the Peace. In 1904 he was appointed High Sheriff of
Denbighshire. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-75741563010934872572013-01-26T20:23:00.003+00:002013-01-26T20:25:17.615+00:00Molasses and Rice<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><i>19<sup>th</sup> Wholesale Grocery Invoice
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It is
signed at the bottom - </span><i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 36pt;">Geo</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 36pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 36pt;">Crosfield</span></i></b></div>
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like this were not put in envelopes but folded and the address written on the
other side. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Note that there is no stamp
– it was not until 1840 that postage stamps (Britain had the first stamps in
the world) were introduced.</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So the
sender</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">– George Crosfield – has written
his name on the side of the address area to indicate that he would pay the Post
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Robert David Roberts, the original owner of Edge House, started his career working for Thomas Jones.</i></span></b></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-46896531720010783332013-01-14T09:59:00.001+00:002013-01-14T10:00:11.402+00:00Postcard from the Past<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Spurred on by my lucky find to more eBay excursions, I found this 1912 postcard showing Corwen's wooden footbridge over the Dee. To be honest I am not sure where this was but looking at the skyline it is east of the town.</b><br />
<b>The sender is equally confused. Her card, postmarked Northwich in Cheshire on 10 October 1912, is addressed to a friend in Ledbury with the request: <i>please forward. </i></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Dear Ethel - I am still alive - where are you? I don't know your Address hope you are well as we are here. I have heard from Mrs Wotton She has arrived in York safe but new Cook left Wed, was here a month. I had a nice holiday and now we shall soon have winter here best love (name illegible).</span></i><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-34862777527409070382013-01-05T14:20:00.003+00:002013-01-05T14:26:21.604+00:00Turn of the Century View<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YiWSIINmH0I/UOg2fCdanWI/AAAAAAAAAHw/zDdUsnjekhA/s1600/viewfromhill.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="204" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YiWSIINmH0I/UOg2fCdanWI/AAAAAAAAAHw/zDdUsnjekhA/s320/viewfromhill.jpg" width="320" /></a>I<b>'ve enjoyed myself over the Christmas break tootling around on eBay - you never know what you will find and I was thrilled to find this. It's a picture postcard from about 1910 I think - an unusual angle for photos of Corwen, which tend to concentrate on the market square or the church. </b><br />
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<b>This interesting photo - which I found from Andrew Richmond Cards in Aberystwyth - shows Corwen from the other side of the Dee Valley where Maesafallen is now. What grabbed my attention is that it clearly shows both the road and the railway bridge behind it, which fell victim to the Beeching madness of the 1960's. And on the right, high up above the bridge, is Bron-y-Graig (Edge House) - a detail is shown below.</b><br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yCXe2dLNVGQ/UOg2d05ChgI/AAAAAAAAAHo/Aup-CR7gFLM/s1600/viewfromhill3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" height="122" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yCXe2dLNVGQ/UOg2d05ChgI/AAAAAAAAAHo/Aup-CR7gFLM/s200/viewfromhill3.jpg" width="200" /></b></a><b>For more fascinating photos of Corwen's past, with comments by Glyn Owen, local historian, please visit </b><br />
<b><a href="http://corwenstation-new.co.uk/#/cofio-corwen-intro/4546839267" target="_blank">Cofio Corwen on the New Corwen Station website</a></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048625003206483796.post-74853075306482192262012-12-07T21:19:00.002+00:002012-12-08T20:48:00.299+00:00Merry Christmas from Bron-y-Graig<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">December at last! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Time to squeeze into the Christmas Cupboard and drag out the deccies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This is our 2011 tree - this year's tree is in the yard at the moment and we hope to put it up this weekend. David went to collect it from Price's Trees of Llandegla - a windswept but magical wood on the way to Wrexham. </span></span></div>
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bYsTCDQ2y08/UMJdP0DPB3I/AAAAAAAAADo/wJzkDCUn6ZE/s1600/cricc115.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bYsTCDQ2y08/UMJdP0DPB3I/AAAAAAAAADo/wJzkDCUn6ZE/s200/cricc115.JPG" width="149" /></span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And here's our tree from 2008.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Wishing you a happy and peaceful December.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18443885696192935482noreply@blogger.com0