1978

Today we visited places that Michael had been to on his last visit in 1978. This included a couple of pubs and sure enough we found a man who recognized the wallpaper in one of the photos and could tell us where the photo was taken however because of renovations it was no longer recognizable. My favourite stop of the day was the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.  Reverting to wikipedia: "it is a navigable aqueduct that carries the Llangollen Canal across the River Dee in north east Wales. The 18-arched stone and cast iron structure, which took ten years to design and build, was completed in 1805. It is now the oldest and longest navigable aqueduct on Great Britain and the highest in the world."
It is 12 feet wide, 126 feet high and 11 miles long.

Valle Crucis Abbey built in 1201

Trying to duplicate a photo from 1978 but we didn't have the photo with us. And there were other people in the original

Next stop - Castel Dinas Bran

Decided to go back to Ruabon

armed with more photos, we've decided that this was great nana's house

Next stop - the aqueduct

Statue Owain Glyndwr in Corwen