We thought you might like to know something about the people who used to live in our village. Most of the stories are from the lead mining days—but not all of them.

 

Mr. Edward Parry Describes the Parish in 1876

Mr. Edward Parry Talks About Some Notable People

Captain John

Some Prominent People

Meliden Characters

About the Miners

The Williamses of Cefyn y Gwrych

P.C. Maurice Jones

An Inspector Calls

Yr Olchfa – The Washery

The Shops

The Fish Cave

Mr. Henry Pochin

Mr. Thomas Griffies-Dixon

The Lost World

Alexander & J.S. Jones

The Annexation of Meliden Beach

Alfred Torkington and the Small, Miserable Church

Beating the Bounds

The Gremlin

The Policeman’s Wife

A Drinking Problem at St. Melyd’s

The Community Centre

John Evans, Lifeboatman

Poor Abel Green

Mrs. Anne Nicholson

Remembrance: World War I

Remembrance: World War II

The Railway to Nowhere

The Day the Soldiers Came

Meliden Parish Records

St. Melyd’s Church Gallery

The One-Wheeled Coach

The Coffin

Morgan ap Morgan, Deprived