Maentwrog
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Maentwrog books (1 available)
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1927 my grandmother was born
On July 31st 1927, my grandmother Mary Alice McGroarty was born at Brynderw Bungalow, Gellilydan. xx
A memory of Gellilydan contributed by sarah dawson
WW11 in Llan Ffestiniog
Towards the end of WW11 my mother took me to visit family in Llan Ffestiniog. I was vey young. I recall clearly looking out of the parlour window and seeing a communal water pump in the street and with dozens if not hundreds of soldiers passing through - apparently en route to their camp at Trawsfynydd.
Where was the pump ? Can anyone help? I think it may have been near the wide Y junction in Ffestiniog but I just don't know. Help!
A memory of Ffestiniog contributed by Meirion Jones
100 years ago
My aunt Elizabeth Lloyd Griffiths Jones was born in Blaenau Ffestinog on Feb. 12, 1906. She is the daughter of the late William and Annie Griffiths. She came to America in around 1920. While living in Wales she lived with her maternal grandmother Elizabeth Jones (Husband was David Jones). As a young girl she came to America to join her parents, her brother William Cynwal and sister Anna Lloyd. She is a wonderful lady. She married Richard T. Jones born in Blaenau Ffestinog in May 1905-son of Elias and Margaret Thomas Jones. Blaenau Ffestinog has a wonderful daughter that they sould be so proud of saying "she came from here". I hope to send ...read more here
A memory of Blaenau Ffestiniog contributed by wendy griffith bowers
The Camp
This photo is fairly unique since it shows the Camp at Bryngolau, Trawsfynydd, where the Royal Artillery Summer Camp was located for 2 years from 1903 before establishing a more permanent camp 2 miles south at Bronaber in 1905, where it remained until about 1958.
A memory of Trawsfynydd contributed by Keith O'Brien
Extracts From Maentwrog & Gwynedd books
The Welsh slate industry developed in the heart of the mountains, and this resulted in settlements in some very bleak and
exposed places. The hamlet of Tanygrisiau is situated on treeless, rocky slopes; at this time it provided accommodation for
workers in the nearby Ffestiniog slate mines.
An extract from from"Gwynedd and Anglesey Photographic Memories".