David Rowe | Local Legends #56: Flintshire

The Three Ravens Podcast · Feb 28, 2026 · 1h 18m

On this week's episode of Local Legends Martin is chatting with the author of The A-Z of Curious Flintshire, local historian David Rowe.

Born and raised in Tyneside, David’s love affair with Flintshire started fairly innocuously at first, as he explains in this conversation, but before long it had become clear he was addicted.

While having a wife and family, and working for long periods overseas, including in Scandinavia and the Middle East, David set to studying, and researching, and became such a fixture of Flintshire's Local Historical that some people think he actually knows everything…