“Overton church yard, 6th wonder of Wales,” is the caption to this undated postcard loaned by Mrs Diana Humphreys, of Maesbrook.
She wonders what the other wonders are – “Pistyll Rhaeadr, I presume and I think maybe the Bells of Aberdovey.”
In fact the Seven Wonders of Wales are revealed by a rhyme: “Pistyll Rhaeadr and Wrexham steeple, Snowdon’s mountain without its people, Overton yew trees, St Winefride wells, Llangollen bridge and Gresford bells.”
The yew trees in Overton-on-Dee’s churchyard are older than the church itself.
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thank you s/star and david trumper for some lovely memomories. oh to have the mock tudor crown hotel back!
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No wonder Southam’s beer was so thin and yucky. But, we still kept drinking it in the ‘Fishes’. perhaps that is where the Pub got its name too!
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This picture makes me cry. I was a young lad who thought it so ‘posh’ to sit, having a pint in an armchair in the George, then pop down to the Raven, round the corner.
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