#holyhead

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Prince William during his visit to RAF Valley on 28 April 2026 in Holyhead, Wales.

He visited the airbase in his role as Royal Honorary Air Commodore to mark the airbase's 85th anniversary.

He was stationed at the base between 2012 and 2013 during his time serving as an RAF Search and Rescue pilot.

📸 Dominic Lipinski / Getty Images

[fallbabylon]

Trefignath Chambered Tomb is a Neolithic burial monument raised more than five thousand years ago on a low rise of the Anglesey landscape. Its tall, weathered slabs are the remains of a once-covered stone chamber where the dead of an early farming community were laid to rest beneath a cairn of earth and rock.

A short distance away stands the solitary monolith of Ty Mawr Standing Stone, a single upright stone watching over the tomb and the surrounding fields.

[guerrerense]

Holyhead Jubilee por Nigel Por Flickr: 20th may 2006 5690 Leander departs Holyhead to Crewe in fine style

[nocternalrandomness]

The South Stack Lighthouse is reportedly one of the most haunted lighthouses in North Wales

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[gwagedd]

Harbwr Caergybi

Cyhoeddodd Siôr IV ei fwriad o fynd i Iwerddon fis wedi’i goroni a ddigwyddodd yn Abaty San Steffan 19 Gorffennaf 1821. Cododd storm ar ei daith, felly ymwelodd â Chaergybi ar 7fed Awst 1821 a thra'n angori clywodd am farwolaeth ei wraig, Caroline o Frunswick. Nid oedd y ddau yn ffrindiau a mawr fu'r llawenhau ar fwrdd y llong y noson honno. Cyrhaeddodd Iwerddon 12fed Awst, ymweliad cyntaf brenin Lloegr i’r ynys werdd ers y 12fed ganrif.

I goffau'r ymweliad codwyd Bwa Sior IV sydd i'w weld o hyd yn yr harbwr. Gelwir y bwa hefyd yn Fwa’r Buddugoliaeth neu Admiralty Arch ac fe’i hadeiladwyd â marmor o Fae Traeth Coch, Ynys Môn. Fe’i hariannwyd trwy danysgrifiad cyhoeddus ac mae’n nodi terfyn gogleddol ffordd yr A5, a gafodd ei gwella’n fawr gan Thomas Telford. Cwblhawyd rhan fwyaf gogleddol o’r ffordd, i mewn i Gaergybi, ym 1823. Gellir ystyried bod y bwa yn ategu Marble Arch Llundain, a adeiladwyd ym 1828 ac a symudwyd i’w leoliad presennol ym mhen deheuol yr A5 yn y 1850au. Addas iawn gan fod yr A5 bellach yn cychwyn wrth y bwa yn Llundain ac yn cyrraedd pen ei thaith wrth y bwa yng Nghaergybi.

Mae porthladd Caergybi yn taflu ei gysgod dros y cylch, ac wedi gwneud hynny am ganrifoedd. Fel Tywysog Cymru, agorodd Edward VII y harbwr newydd yng Nghaergybi ym 1873, ac eto ym 1880 pan gwblhawyd estyniad i’r harbwr. Er nad oes cofnodion penodol o ymweliadau Edward VII ag harbyrau eraill yn Sir Fôn, mae ei ymweliadau â Chaergybi yn dangos ei gefnogaeth i ddatblygiad o’r fath yng Nghymru.

O.N. Gwaharddwyd y Frenhines Caroline rhag mynychu coroni ei gŵr hi hyd yn oed, dim ond tair wythnos ynghynt. Roedd yr Arglwydd Hood wedi ysgrifennu i roi gwybod y byddai'r Frenhines yn mynychu'r seremoni. Derbyniodd ateb prydlon yn dweud bod y brenin ddim eisiau hynny. Er gwaethaf hyn, ac anogaeth ei chynghorwyr cyfreithiol, roedd Caroline yn benderfynol. Ceisiodd y Frenhines yng nghwmni yr Arglwydd Hood fynedfa i Abbaty Westminster drwy sawl drws a gwrthodwyd ym mhob un. Dywedodd Hood wrth geidwad y drws, a oedd yn ôl pob tebyg yn un o'r paffwyr proffesiynol a oedd wedi'u cyflogi ar gyfer y digwyddiad: "Rwy'n cyflwyno i chi eich brenhines, ydych chi'n gwrthod ei gadael hi i mewn?" Yr ateb bob tro oedd na allai dderbyn neb heb docyn.

[ravenclawcumlaude]

Working on this all day and still need to add color. Created by me in Procreate. Headcanon below.

This is the original photo spread before Harry had it changed.

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Headcanon: Ginny was given a full spread in Seeker Weekly after she started playing for the Holyhead Harpies as their new Chaser. She knew the photographer was at practice to capture some candid photos but she didn’t know images of her in her sports bra would end up published. When she asked for a magical retraction of the photos, she was told “Sorry sweetheart, sex sells.” She knew she couldn’t avoid Harry seeing the article. Not only had he been reading the publication cover to cover every week for years, he knew about the write up and the photo spread and was so excited for her. He’d planned to frame it. Now she couldn’t stand the idea of looking at herself every day, stretching her arms or caught in an awkward stance in her sports bra everyday, hung up on the wall behind glass. Her brothers would see it too! The humiliation. Why couldn’t they have just taken photos of her in her kit, completely covered in her new dragon hide gear? Ginny had felt so cool and grown up at her fitting. A professional Quidditch player! Not that her brothers cared. They weren’t huge Holyhead fans and Ron told her “Well, of course you’d make the all-girls team.” They were keen on getting tickets when she played their favorite teams though. Wankers.

Ginny met Harry for lunch as a planned celebration. He already had a copy of the magazine tucked under his arm. “Harry, please know it wasn’t on purpose. I didn’t know…” “It’s already been taken care of.” He interrupted her. “What? But I already contacted them and-“ “I pulled some strings and asked some favors. Unfortunately they won’t retract the current issues in rotation but they’re doing a re-print to replace them all. They are being pulled from the shelves as we speak.” Ginny was speechless. This must be a “Boy Who Lived” favor. Who knows how many more of those he would get away with. He’d used one…on her. For something he knew she would feel uncomfortable about. Unless it made him uncomfortable too?

“So you saw me in a sports bra and were so disgusted that you called in a favor to have them removed before anyone else could go blind?” She asked cheekily, giving him an appreciative pinch on the arm. “Ow! No! Quite the opposite! I’m trying to save everyone from being blinded by your beauty.” Ginny rolled her eyes. Harry took her by the arm and they walked into the restaurant. “Also,” he said, leaning into her ear and whispering low, “No one gets to see that except me.” Ginny flushed red and flared her green eyes at him, allowing him the possessiveness this one time.

[maiiefizz]

I'm on my way to Holyhead.

And unless there is a priest who is also a musician and flirts with me in both roles without letting me know that he is both people, then I choose violence.