MODERN phone technology is helping to connect Anglesey and Gwynedd residents with notable women of the past.

A project using 'QR codes' which can be scanned and read by Smartphones is revealing lost stories of interesting women at the very place they made history.

The free service, has been set up in time to celebrate International Women's Day on Friday.

The stories can be read via black and white QR type bar codes, which link to the HistoryPoints website.

The story of Wales’ first female MP in Criccieth Megan Lloyd George, can be found through a QR code located near her old home, Bryn Awelon, now a nursing home.

In Llanberis, there is tale about nurse Jennie Williams, born 1874, who lived in the High Street. She died in 1919 at the French hospital where she had tended wounded soldiers.

In Criccieth, a former Post Office reveals the story of a women's protest when Suffragettes smashed a window on June 2, 1914

Menai Bridge characters Gracie Davies and Edna Pritchard, of Menai Bridge, whose graves are at Church Island, are also featured.

Edna, born in 1913, inherited a fortune, studied at Bangor and Oxford, but died in a climbing accident in Snowdonia in 1935.

Gracie Davies, was born in May 1855. She was ardent supporter of community initiatives and mentioned in Dispatches during the First World War for her Red Cross hospital work. She also helped Belgian refugees in Menai Bridge. She died in May 1919.

Friends of Church Island and others helped compile information about the women and QR codes are at the churchyard entrance helping to locate the women's graves.

Lis Perkins, of the Friends of Church Island, said: "Men's stories are what we get all the time when we talk about history, so it's great to get more attention for the stories of women.

The work that women did was so important. Edna's story shows that women died doing things such as climbing mountains, at a time when people think of them being demure and sitting at home doing needlework.

"These stories have been hidden. It's really great that they're now being brought into the open."

Rhodri Clark, editor of HistoryPoints.org, said: “Since our project began in 2012, it has always been noticeable that achievements by men received the most publicity,

“We hope that our collection of more than 70 locations linked to women’s history will help to redress the balance for local residents and visitors. The collection will grow as HistoryPoints continues to evolve."

The Women's History in Wales web page is available here: http://historypoints.org/index.php?page=womens-history-in-wales

Stories relating to women from the Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham areas can also be found.