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brass plates in, dated 1654. I like to wander through old boneyards, and read the tomb stones, as Byron said, of not what they were, but what they ought to have been.
I also went to Nantwich about 3 miles off; it is a much older town than Crewe the latter being built since the arrival of the locomotive. The bridge across the Weaver river was where King Charles's Irish contingent was cut up by the army of the Commonwealth in those good old days. It is a very quaint old town, with its cobbled streets, and narrow alleyways. In the big stone church, it was said Oliver Cromwell once hid from the cavaliers.
In Crewe I visited a clothing, a shirt, and a stationery factory. The machinery and system were very good, I admired most of all a machine for sewing shirt buttons on.
I decided to visit Llangollen in Denbigh, Wales "Wlad fy Nhadau". So I left Crewe one morning early in the train, and after waiting about 2 hours at Chester and Ruabon for trains, that didn't link up, I reached Llangollen pronounced Llangothlin. I had time to take a walk through Ruabon on the road down. Ruabon is famed for its bricks, and very fine they are too. It is a very interesting place with its pillbox looking gaol and its old church and buildings. Llangollen is situated in a valley in the Berwyn Mountains on the river Dee, and is principally a tourist resort. I determined to see everything, that it was possible to see in the short time I was staying there. I began by viewing the Dee which is a fine sight at this time, as flushed with the Autumn rains it dashes in cascades over the slate stone rocks. The bridge was built in 1300 but has been widened in modern times. I then went to Plas Newydd (New Hall), where two very eccentric old Irish ladies lived about a hundred years ago and their