Editor's Bit

Greetings from your new Editor.

I start with a vote of thanks to Katie and her family for keeping the magazine going since she took over with Issue 96 in 2018, I hope I can continue as well as she did. Our volunteer distributors also deserve a mention and another huge vote of thankswithout them you probably wouldn’t be reading this. Thanks also to our advertisers and to the Community Council who guaranteed the funding for this year.

We came to Dyserth in 1979, a few months after we were married.

I had no prior connection with the village but Rhiannon can trace relatives from here as far back as the late 1700s.

Her Nain (Grandmother) was born in 1893 at Tyn y Clwt in Dyserth and by 1901 was living at Long Acre Cottages. She attended the old school on the hill, opposite what was the Cross Keys. Mary Ellen Jones, in the back row, 6th from left.

For years we wondered where Tyn y Clwt had been - it was mentioned on her birth certificate and on census records. But we were quite excited to find it from tythe maps last year, just off a public footpath near Long Acre Cottages - though there is no trace of a dwelling now. There may well be others in the village with connections to Tyn y Clwt (also know as Ty yn y Clwt), if you would like to know where it is I can send you a map.

You may have come across my website, www.dyserth.com. I started this in 2006 and it has well over 1,000 pictures in the old photograph galleries. Although I now edit this magazine as well there is no other connection between the two.

Dyserth Times is funded by advertising and assistance from Dyserth Community Council. Nobody involved in the magazine, including myself, receives any financial benefit.

1,400 copies of each edition are printed and 1,300 are delivered to households in Dyserth and Cwm. Copies for archiving are also sent to Rhyl Library and to the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.

It is once again online - go to issuu.com and search for Dyserth Times.

Peter J Robinson