A small reception will follow in the Oak Park Arms hotel.

Cardiff Arms Park (), also known as The Arms Park, situated in the centre of Cardiff, Wales, is primarily known as a rugby union stadium, but it also has a bowling green.

The Arms Park was host to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1958, and hosted four games in the 1991 Rugby World Cup, including the 3rd / 4th place play-off.

The Arms Park also hosted the inaugural Heineken Cup final of 1995-6 and the following year in 1996-7.

Originally the Arms Park had a cricket ground to the north and a rugby union stadium to the south.

On 8 May 2012, it was announced that Cardiff Blues would be returning to the Arms Park on a permanent basis.

The Cardiff Arms Park site was originally called the Great Park, a swampy meadow behind the Cardiff Arms Hotel.

The hotel was built by Sir Thomas Morgan, during the reign of Charles I. Cardiff Arms Park was named after this hotel.

From 1803, the Cardiff Arms Hotel and the Park had become the property of the Bute family.

The Arms Park soon became a popular place for sporting events, and by 1848, Cardiff Cricket Club was using the site for its cricket matches.

At that time Cardiff Arms Park had a cricket ground to the north and a rugby union ground to the south.

In 1922 John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, had sold the entire site and it was bought by the Cardiff Arms Park Company Limited for GB £ 30, 000, it was then leased to the Cardiff Athletic Club ( cricket and rugby sections ) for 99 years at a cost of £ 200 per annum.

< center > The 1934 new North Stand, rugby ground, Cardiff Arms Park </ center >

This brought the overall capacity of the Arms Park up to 60, 000, of which 12, 800 spectators were seated and the remained standing.

The Arms Park hosted the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, which was used for the athletics events, but this event caused damage to the drainage system, so much so, that other rugby unions ( England, Scotland and Ireland ) complained after the Games about the state of the pitch.

On 4 December 1960, due to torrential rain, the River Taff burst its banks with the Arms Park pitch being left under of water.

By 7 October 1966, the first floodlit game was held at Cardiff Arms Park, a game in which Cardiff RFC beat the Barbarians by 12 points to 8.

This would become the fourth redevelopment of the Cardiff Arms Park site.

Although the Millennium Stadium is on roughly two thirds of the National Stadium, Cardiff Arms Park site, it is currently no longer using the Arms Park name.

However by 1878, Cardiff Arms Hotel had been demolished.

The official website confuses the issue as well, one part states that " The Millennium Stadium is located on Westgate Street in Cardiff ; next to the Cardiff Arms Park ".

whereas another section specifically refers to the stadium as " The Millennium Stadium, on the Cardiff Arms Park "

The village used to have four public houses: the ' Greyhound ', the ' Nags Head ', the ' Masons Arms ' and the ' Farndon Arms ' ( formerly known as ' The Raven ').

The parish has six public houses: the Blue Bell, Bull's Head, Lancaster Arms and White Horse in Desford, the Greyhound in Botcheston and the Red Lion at Lindridge.

Despite the village's small size, until it recently it was the site of two pubs: the Old Greyhound and the Cranmer Arms.

Others include the Farriers Arms ( built 1872 ), Railway Tavern ( built 1867 ), Fishponds Tavern ( built 1904 ), Full Moon ( built 1850 ), Golden Lion ( built 1883 ), Cross Keys ( built 1853 ), Cross Hands ( built 1853 ), Old Tavern ( built 1899 ), Greyhound ( built 1883 ), Spotted Cow ( built 1883 ), Portcullis ( built 1853 ), the Warwick Arms ( built 1906 ), and the Oldbury Court ( built 1957 ).

* Coat of Arms with a Greyhound Supported by a Savage 7. 7 cm in diameter

The New Ing Lodge, the Hermitage, Brookfield House, Green Farm ( camping ) and the King's Arms and Greyhound pubs.

A four-gun battery of Model 1895 ten-barrel Gatling Guns in. 30 Army made by Colt's Arms Company was formed into a separate detachment led by Lt. John " Gatling Gun " Parker.

During 2010, the armoured and mechanized infantry battalions were restructured as Combined Arms Battalions ; as from 1 January 2011, each had a Staff Company, a Logistics Company, 2 Tank Companies and 2 Mechanized Infantry Companies equipped with infantry fighting vehicles ..

** Browning Arms Company

A glut of war surplus aircraft and a lack of government interest in aviation caused the company to become unprofitable, and in 1920 it was sold to Birmingham Small Arms Company, who had its operations liquidated later that year.

Airco and BSA, parent company of Daimler, announced on 1 March 1920 that Airco had amalgamated with Birmingham Small Arms Company.

Ilion in Herkimer County has one of two production sites of the Remington Arms Company, where many of the company's firearms are produced.

Remington Arms and Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company produced breech-loading weapons for the team.

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Small Arms Technical Publishing Company.

Merrimack Arms and Brown Manufacturing Company made Southerner Derringer pistols in their Newburyport factory from 1867 to 1873.

In January 1918 Remington Arms was absorbed by Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company, which took over the rifle plant.

* Browning Arms Company, headquartered in the nearby unincorporated community of Mountain Green

The Secretary of War under President James Buchanan, John B. Floyd, contracted with the Burnside Arms Company to equip a large portion of the Army with his carbine and induced him to establish extensive factories for its manufacture.

This led to the 1906 trials of pistols from six firearms manufacturing companies ( namely, Colt, Bergmann, Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken ( DWM ), Savage Arms Company, Knoble, Webley, and White-Merril.

Through the political connections of these venture capitalists, the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Paterson, New Jersey, was chartered by the New Jersey legislature on March 5, 1836.

Although by the end of 1837 the Paterson Arms Company had made over 1, 000 weapons, there were no sales.

Soon after the failure of the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company, he met Samuel Morse.

Colt tried to use this revenue to resurrect the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company, but could not secure funds from other investors or even his own family.

The company became known as the " Volcanic Repeating Arms Company "; financial difficulties caused it to come into the majority ownership of investor Oliver Winchester.

* Hicks, James Ernest & Jandot, Andre ( illustrator ), What the Citizen Should Know about Our Arms and Weapons, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1941

* Browning Arms Company, initially marketing the sporting designs of John Browning