Holyhead
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Nov 4, 2026
BethanHOST
In 1991, he restored and reopened a cinema at Baggillett, part of what became his Focus Films operation.
BethanHOST
And he later became involved with the Empire Cinema in Holyhead, reopening that in late 1994, after it closed for several years.
BethanHOST
In August 1995, he also reopened a small cinema in Denbigh, and he also had interests in a venue in Festinioch.
BethanHOST
Moore brought used cinema equipment and repaired much of it himself, and that kept those overhead costs down and reinforced his image as this determined enthusiast, rescuing, properly rescuing these neglected local cinemas from extinction.
CookieHOST
Our topical Tuesday on the subject of song titles with repeated words or rhyming song titles this afternoon.
CookieHOST
Well done to Chris in Holyhead, who has the title and artist for Trikkor's Tricky Topical Teaser.
CookieHOST
Uh, still plenty of time to get those answers in, and still one more clue to come your way.
CookieHOST
Um, yeah, we'll give you the next clue right after we play this one.
11 MINS LATER
CookieHOST
Uh, so many thanks to, uh, Roger Trigger for another great teaser.
CookieHOST
And, uh, well done to, uh, the Welsh Shepherd first in with the correct answer this afternoon.
CookieHOST
Uh, John in Chorley, uh, David and Trina in Brackley, Alan Padgham, uh, Chris in Holyhead, and Anita in Epsom, all getting title and artist, and Howard got the artist.
CookieHOST
So, uh, well done, one and all.
Craig HouldenHOST
When there wasn't a lot of work in Ireland, particularly 70s, 80s, a lot of Irish people emigrated over to the UK.
Craig HouldenHOST
And the way the boats went from Ireland, they went to Holyhead, they went to Liverpool.
Craig HouldenHOST
So Liverpool was the first port of call for many Irish people when they went over to the UK in search of a better life and work and stuff like that.
Craig HouldenHOST
So that's why you see the likes of the names of like Rooney, Carragher, them very Irish names and a very Irish kind of wit and sense of humor with Scousers.
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By daybreak, a ship, the SS Balmarino, an ally in the conspiracy, came alongside.
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And on it was Captain Agnew, Crawford's ally, and with him a Captain Morrison, both picked up by the Balmarino at Holyhead, a port in North Wales.
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They had brought with them a letter containing new instructions.
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And Frederick Crawford, when he opened them, saw that it predictably revealed another bout of indecisiveness and cold feet on the part of the secret committee.
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At Glasgow, he bought a coal boat, the Clyde Valley, for £4,500.
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Then he went south to Llandudno in North Wales, where a boat from the Clyde Valley, lying just offshore, following his signals in the darkness, took him on board.
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Off Holyhead he rendezvoused with the Balmerino and taking some of its crew to work the Clyde Valley, he sealed his rendezvous with his armship but there was no sign of the Fanny.
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Getting more and more frustrated Crawford set off overland once more to look for it, arranging for the Clyde Valley to pick him up again off Holyhead at 5pm on the Tuesday the 23rd of April.
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Stewart quotes a reminiscence by the English UVF commander Captain Wilfred Spender of being wakened up by a UVF dispatch rider bringing a copy of a coded message being delivered to the Belfast City Commissioner as the Chief of Police of Belfast was then known.
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Spender and his wife deciphered it and it read that a messenger was coming from Holyhead and the RUC were to meet him at Balmoral Station and that the RIC should be ready for action.
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Another source told Spender that the actual number of those to be arrested was 210.
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Captain Crozier, commander of the Belfast Special Service Section of the EVF, was later quite specific about two sources confirming the issue of the arrest warrants.
Craig HouldenHOST
When there wasn't a lot of work in Ireland, particularly 70s, 80s, a lot of Irish people emigrated over to the UK.
Craig HouldenHOST
And the way the boats went from Ireland, they went to Holyhead, they went to Liverpool.
Craig HouldenHOST
So Liverpool was the first port of call for many Irish people when they went over to the UK in search of a better life and work and stuff like that.
Craig HouldenHOST
So that's why you see the likes of the names of like Rooney, Carragher, them very Irish names and a very Irish kind of wit and sense of humor with Scouts.
Jimmy AndersonGUEST
Actually a great trip, which is for another time.
Jimmy AndersonGUEST
We got the ferry across to Ireland from Holyhead.
Jimmy AndersonGUEST
Oh, nice.
Jimmy AndersonGUEST
Drove through North Wales.
Linda PollockHOST
didn't you have an experience in a spa there
Clinton BaptisteHOST
no that's a cross channel ferry but it was very cold I was coming from Belfast to Holyhead doing the tour.
Clinton BaptisteHOST
Yeah.
Clinton BaptisteHOST
And upstairs at this ferry, there was like a jacuzzi and like a steam room.
Clinton BaptisteHOST
The opening scene, Kate O'Mara having a sunbathe on the front.
Clinton BaptisteHOST
Well, that's exactly it.
Clinton BaptisteHOST
And I thought, this is a wonderful way to spend a miserable trip from Belfast to Holyhead.
Clinton BaptisteHOST
So I went up there and it was all switched off.
Colm O'ReganGUEST
Leire, that Leire is the son of Niall of the Nine Hostages and he used to launch pirate raids over to Britain.
Colm O'ReganGUEST
Now, we still go over on the ferry to Holyhead, so there's a certain lineage there.
Colm O'ReganGUEST
But, you know, like where I'm from, Dripshoch means muddy river.
Colm O'ReganGUEST
Up the road, there's a castle, Carignamuc, which is a sister castle of Blarney Castle.
Lucia AucottGUEST
And this one was from Edinburgh.
Lucia AucottGUEST
We went to head to the ferry, Holyhead, I think.
Lucia AucottGUEST
And we're starting in a North Island, a North Island down south, all the way down to the big cliffs, Moher.
Lucia AucottGUEST
Cliffs of Moher.
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