The pendulum shed at Gwaith Powdwr Nature Reserve, in Caernarfon has been vandalised (Image: Rob Booth North Wales Wildlife Trust). It is estimated that the damage, which was discovered on Monday ...

NATURE walks will be held next week to help explore one of the area’s most enigmatic creatures. Volunteers at the North Wales Wildlife Trust will lead guided walks around Gwaith Powdwr in ...

The accident, which happened on a sunny summer day in June 1988, was one of the worst accidents to have happened at Gwaith Powdwr, the Cookes Explosives factory at Penrhyndeudraeth near Blaenau ...

For 130 years the small town of Penrhyndeudraeth, just upstream from Portmeirion, was home to a very large explosives factory known locally as Gwaith Powdwr or the Powder Works.

Gwaith Powdwr was better known as the Cooke’s Explosives factory. For 130 years, the community of Penrhyndeudraeth in Gwynedd had a unique factory on their doorstep. The work was dangerous ...

Gillian Burke visits Gwaith Powdwr, an explosives factory transformed into a wildlife oasis. Iolo Williams recounts stories of two Arctic visitors. Show more Iolo Williams looks back on the best ...