Site History

Jan. 1995

(Yes, really, 1995!) Site originally launched, with the Anglesey History page.

Dec. 1995

Added the Natural History page. See the original pages on The Wayback Machine.

Sep. 1997

Redesigned site (new backdrop, navigation buttons). See it on The Wayback Machine.

Jan. 2000

Major revamp of the site:

• New design for border and menu buttons. See it on The Wayback Machine.
• Site moved to www.anglesey-history.co.uk
• Added section on antique maps of Anglesey
• Added page of books about Anglesey
• Added a new section on places around Anglesey. Each place has a page describing the site and several photographs. Initial places were:
  • Bridges across the Menai Strait
  • Penmynydd
  • Lligwy

Feb. 2000

• Added a search facility to the site.
• Added a page about and photos of Penmon.

Mar. 2000

• Added this history page
• Added page about Llanddwyn Island

Jun. 2002

Added a page with the current weather conditions in Pentraeth, as recorded by a weather station in the author’s back garden.

Jul. 2006

Complete visual overhaul of the site. See the design at the WayBack Machine.

Dec. 2009

• Added a major new section about the windmills of Anglesey, with a page for each existing windmill.
• Added links to Google Maps aerial views for various sites
• Added buttons to share this site on various social networking sites

Feb. 2010

Added page about South Stack lighthouse

Aug. 2012

Revamped weather page to accommodate new weather station hardware and software

Oct. 2013

• Added page about my new book, Anglesey Through Time
• Added buttons on top right of each page to follow my new Twitter feed, @AngleseyHist
• Added page about the Royal Charter shipwreck
• Began a section on Anglesey churches and chapels, starting with Llanbadrig, Llaneilian and Llantysilio.

Apr. 2014

• Several new churches and chapels have been added
• Added a page about the new Anglesey flag
• Modified main menu structure, moving the Nature and History pages to a new section of topical pages that are not restricted to certain places. Also moved the Churches section to a main menu item.

Jun. 2014

Visual redesign of the whole site, for a more modern look and to make it a responsive site that will be easier to read for our increasing number of phone and tablet visitors.

Sept. 2016

Started a new blog for more informal posts about the history of Anglesey.

Jan 2017

Launched major new section: Prehistoric Monuments.

Jan-Feb 2023

A number of changes have been made over the intervening years, primarily adding new churches and prehistoric monuments, adding information about my published books, and regularly updating the Anglesey books page.

A new major page was added listing all the corn watermills, fulling and woollen mills, and other types of mills on Anglesey. Links to online databases from the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, the Gwynedd Archaeological Trust, Cadw and the Mills Archive were added for each entry, as well as for all the existing windmill pages. The mills were also addded to a Google Map showing the location of the mills and giving links to the databases.

Jul 2024

Revamped weather page to accommodate new weather station hardware and software

Jan 2025

Converted entire site to WordPress.