Investigations

February 20, 2025

The date has been set for the Grand Opening of The Dreamatorium. This magical date is... Friday 4th April 2025. I've popped your invite below. It will be full speed ahead now as everything starts to come together. What can you expect? In the lead up to the opening, you can expect lots of videos […]

Christmas present #3 - The shape of early Plas Coch

December 26, 2024

The floorplan of early Plas Coch was something we wanted to identify, to know the shape of the original house. On the face of it, it's quite easy. The red sandstone walls were thicker and had obviously been repurposed from the ruins of Ruthin Castle. So, we just needed to find the red stone walls. […]

A Christmas Present #1 - Questions answered..?

December 26, 2024

It's not always straight forward when finding the answer to a question. Sometimes your initial question changes with every piece of information you learn along the way to that elusive solutuion. This is what happened with the question we asked at the beginning of the blog. The original question was : Who was the Constable […]

We're going on a man hunt!

October 31, 2024

I know, it's an interesting title. However this IS what we are doing! Armed only with a mobile phone camera and a trusty pair of walking boots we are off on a manhunt. This hunt is for a very specific man and the best bit... We have no idea who they are. What we do […]

Is there anybody there? ...Well...is there?

October 30, 2024

On the 18th May 2023 at around 14.00 hours Tracey, Kevin and I had a meeting at Plas Coch. Not an ordinary meeting. It was a meeting with people who, unbeknownst to them, had spent many an evening in our sitting rooms. On television. So meeting them, we were nervous and excited. We really shouldn’t […]

The Writing's on the Wall

September 26, 2024

The work at Plas Coch is starting to turn a corner. Where we had been taking things away and discovering the property's hidden depths, now we are starting to put it all back together. So we weren't expecting this. First there was some flaking plaster. A little of the plaster had been removed and some […]

Medieval Graffiti ..?

September 26, 2024

Once this had been photographed and mulled over, we couldn't work out what these lines were? Instructions to visitors? Beware of the dog? There were many possibilities. So we contacted Matt Champion who has written a book on Medieval Graffiti, specifically those found in churches. His reply was very interesting. In his opinion : "The […]

Photographic evidence

August 15, 2024

A second trip to the archives proved even more fruitful than the first with actual photographic evidence of the previous occupants and the building. This evidence was found by searching through a couple of photograph albums. Both of these albums were full of photographs and handwritten notes by Herbert Aldrich. The Aldrich family were related […]

Further footings

August 8, 2024

Following the discovery of the shapely footings this gave us an idea of how to identify the true floorplan of the original building. Put simply, if the footings are like that on one side...maybe they will be like that on the other? Oh if only it were that simple! We had many a discussion. One […]

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