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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/167890868@N03/">Nigel Southee</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/167890868@N03/54982612933/" title="Sunset over Llŷn Peninsula"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54982612933_f8f774ab2c_m.jpg" width="240" height="108" alt="Sunset over Llŷn Peninsula" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ebbwplayers/">ebbwplayers</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ebbwplayers/54982279893/" title="20251213_Bridgend_823_DxO.jpg"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54982279893_46c073b167_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="20251213_Bridgend_823_DxO.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Ebbw Vale 47 - 15 Bridgend</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ebbwplayers/">ebbwplayers</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ebbwplayers/54982278698/" title="20251213_Bridgend_508_DxO.jpg"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54982278698_8232cae395_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="20251213_Bridgend_508_DxO.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Ebbw Vale 47 - 15 Bridgend</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ebbwplayers/">ebbwplayers</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ebbwplayers/54982338389/" title="20251213_Bridgend_179_DxO.jpg"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54982338389_4f67c13563_m.jpg" width="240" height="119" alt="20251213_Bridgend_179_DxO.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Ebbw Vale 47 - 15 Bridgend</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ebbwplayers/">ebbwplayers</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ebbwplayers/54981210127/" title="20251213_Bridgend_712_DxO.jpg"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54981210127_68fe39056c_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="20251213_Bridgend_712_DxO.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Ebbw Vale 47 - 15 Bridgend</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ebbwplayers/">ebbwplayers</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ebbwplayers/54981211117/" title="20251213_Bridgend_1127_DxO.jpg"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54981211117_31faf480db_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="20251213_Bridgend_1127_DxO.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Ebbw Vale 47 - 15 Bridgend</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ebbwplayers/">ebbwplayers</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ebbwplayers/54981210877/" title="20251213_Bridgend_977_DxO.jpg"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54981210877_c9bcb23274_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="20251213_Bridgend_977_DxO.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Ebbw Vale 47 - 15 Bridgend</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ebbwplayers/">ebbwplayers</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ebbwplayers/54982337534/" title="20251213_Bridgend_30_DxO.jpg"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54982337534_6918f8fa29_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="20251213_Bridgend_30_DxO.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Ebbw Vale 47 - 15 Bridgend</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/western52/">mike_a_jones90</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/western52/54982199103/" title="08351 at Radyr"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54982199103_1b440f74c3_m.jpg" width="240" height="155" alt="08351 at Radyr" /></a></p> <p>Class 08 shunter number 08351 is seen shunting coal wagons of various types at Radyr on 22nd August 1983.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/western52/">mike_a_jones90</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/western52/54981115872/" title="Radyr Semaphores"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54981115872_983b372db0_m.jpg" width="240" height="137" alt="Radyr Semaphores" /></a></p> <p>Some of the fine array of semaphore signals that could once be found around Radyr, seen here on 22nd August 1983.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/western52/">mike_a_jones90</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/western52/54981975036/" title="45102 at Cardiff Central"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54981975036_08fdca0a9c_m.jpg" width="240" height="156" alt="45102 at Cardiff Central" /></a></p> <p>Class 45/1 locomotive number 45102 is seen at Cardiff Central with the 1250 train from Leeds on 15th August 1983.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/western52/">mike_a_jones90</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/western52/54982203424/" title="37305 &amp; 37306 at Heath Junction"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54982203424_81d949ae76_m.jpg" width="240" height="183" alt="37305 &amp; 37306 at Heath Junction" /></a></p> <p>Class 37 locomotives numbers 37305 and 37306 pass Heath Junction with a typical MGR coal train heading down to Aberthaw Power Station on 10th August 1983.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/western52/">mike_a_jones90</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/western52/54982209179/" title="C334 at Heath Junction"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54982209179_251bc75847_m.jpg" width="240" height="157" alt="C334 at Heath Junction" /></a></p> <p>Class 116 DMU number C334 comes off the Coryton branch at Heath Junction whilst forming the 1700 Coryton to Cardiff Bute Road service on 10th August 1983.The signal box closed in November 1984.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/western52/">mike_a_jones90</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/western52/54981068652/" title="C300 at Heath Junction"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54981068652_663cdfb272_m.jpg" width="240" height="188" alt="C300 at Heath Junction" /></a></p> <p>Class 116 DMU number C300 is seen at Heath Junction whilst forming the 1622 Cardiff Central to Rhymney service on 10th August 1983.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/maggiest/">Maggie Studholme</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/maggiest/54981048837/" title="Washed Ashore"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54981048837_c14b7d4e29_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Washed Ashore" /></a></p> <p>For the first time in what feels like forever, it wasn't raining when I got up this morning. I was slow to get out of the house, and missed half of the golden hour, but figured that given the time of year the sun would be low enough to give me some good light for a while. <br /> <br /> But the sea! - oh my goodness the sea, at this time of year and in this weather - is an unforgiving subject. No only did I get water over the tops of my wellies (twice!) within a short time of getting to the beach, but to make matters worse I'd forgotten my phone, which I use as a remote to trigger the camera on the tripod. <br /> <br /> I kept shooting - because the alternative was to give up and go home, but most of my photos are not worth looking at - blurry, because the tripod moved as the sea thundered over it, or blurry because I am heavy handed. Add in the difficulties of composing on such a narrow rocky beach and it adds up to not the best morning's photography I have ever done. <br /> <br /> I was almost ready to give up and go home, with the tide threatening to cut off my exit from the beach, when this happened in front of my eyes. I have tried actively to create similar scenes in the past but they never work because seaweed never stays put. I got two shots within seconds of each other - and this was the one I liked best. I'd have gone for a third but the next moment the sea surged over the seaweed - and over my boots, again - and discretion got the better of valour and I packed up and came home.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/western52/">mike_a_jones90</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/western52/54982100733/" title="B315441 at Swansea Burrows Sidings"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54982100733_4c7ecff6bb_m.jpg" width="240" height="141" alt="B315441 at Swansea Burrows Sidings" /></a></p> <p>21 ton coal wagon number B315441 is seen at Swansea Burrows Sidings on 4th August 1983. This was an unfitted wagon, TOPS code MDO, and was the type with two side doors.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/tico_manudo_postcards/">tico_manudo</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/tico_manudo_postcards/54982085825/" title="Spring in Aron Mountains, Merioneth, Wales"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54982085825_502d999e34_m.jpg" width="240" height="162" alt="Spring in Aron Mountains, Merioneth, Wales" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/gazawesome/">GarethBell</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/gazawesome/54981966270/" title="bee"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54981966270_cf32928c70_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="bee" /></a></p> <p>A bit of a buzz about this one</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/jhluxton/">www.jhluxton.com - John H. Luxton Photography</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jhluxton/54980749847/" title="L2025_6774 Bridge End Hotel and Riverside Taxidermy Studio - Llangollen"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54980749847_9ee446de0b_m.jpg" width="240" height="118" alt="L2025_6774 Bridge End Hotel and Riverside Taxidermy Studio - Llangollen" /></a></p> <p>The Bridge End Hotel and Riverside Taxidermy Studio.<br /> <br /> For more photographs of Llangollen please click here: <a href="https://www.jhluxton.com/Wales/Clywd/Llangollen-District" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.jhluxton.com/Wales/Clywd/Llangollen-District</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/jhluxton/">www.jhluxton.com - John H. Luxton Photography</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jhluxton/54981751118/" title="L2025_6695 Castell Dinbych"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54981751118_2f0a072e81_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="L2025_6695 Castell Dinbych" /></a></p> <p>View from the Bishop's Tower to the Great Gate House and Visitor Reception and Shop.<br /> <br /> For more photographs of Castell Dinbych please click here: <a href="https://www.jhluxton.com/Wales/Clywd/Castell-Dinbych-Denbigh-Castle" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.jhluxton.com/Wales/Clywd/Castell-Dinbych-Denbigh-Castle</a><br /> <br /> Denbigh Castle (grade 1 Listed) and town walls (Welsh: Castell Dinbych a waliau tref) were established to secure control over Denbigh following Edward I of England’s conquest of Wales in 1282. The territory was assigned to Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, who initiated the construction of a fortified town populated by settlers from England, safeguarded by an imposing castle and surrounded by deer parks for hunting. Construction was incomplete by 1294 when Welsh forces briefly occupied the castle during the Madog ap Llywelyn revolt. Subsequent enhancements were made to its defenses, though the castle remained unfinished at Henry's death in 1311.<br /> <br /> Ownership of the castle changed hands several times during the early 14th century until it came under the Mortimer family's control. Meanwhile, living within the walled town proved impractical, leading to the rise of a larger settlement outside the original fortifications. In 1400, the walled town suffered attacks during the Glyndŵr Rising; however, the castle itself withstood these assaults. During the Wars of the Roses, Lancastrian troops raided and burned the town, prompting most inhabitants to abandon the old area, which then became part of the castle’s extended defenses.<br /> <br /> During the First English Civil War, Royalists held Denbigh until Parliamentarian forces seized it in October 1646. After Royalist soldiers retook it in 1659, General George Monk ordered the castle to be slighted, resulting in the demolition of portions of its walls and towers. Over time, the site further deteriorated, and the deserted walled town remained largely untouched. Restoration efforts began in the mid-19th century when a local committee took charge of the ruins. The Office of Works assumed responsibility for the fortifications in 1914, eventually transferring the site to the Welsh Cadw heritage agency.<br /> <br /> Denbigh Castle is distinguished by three octagonal towers forming its main entrance, described by historian John Goodall as &quot;the most architecturally sophisticated gatehouse of the thirteenth century.&quot; The curtain wall is reinforced by eight mural towers, additional barbicans, and several defensive terraces and walls. The castle joins the town walls, which are mostly intact and enclose approximately 1,100 metres (3,600 ft) around the old town. Originally, four towers and two gatehouses defended the town walls, although only one gatehouse remains. Both the castle and town gatehouse feature ornate stonework intended to reflect royal authority and civic pride.</p>

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