Rhosneigr

Maelog Lake Hotel

A schoolfriend of my former wife (now sadly deceased) married a Rhosneigr man and lived in the village. In order to visit them  my wife, I and our year old daughter visited Rhosneigr first in 1971, again in 1973 and for the last time in 1977 when our son was three years old. We stayed each time at the Maelog Lake Hotel which was then run by Dennis and Elsie Clutton.  We had marvellous holidays in Rhosneigr and spent many hours on the wonderful beaches with our children.  We also spent many hours in the bar of the hotel with Dennis and some of the locals sampling some of Dennis's cocktails and, more potently, his 100% dark rum!

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Contributed by Colin Carey

living there

I lived in Rhosneigr from the age of 6 to 12 and I absolutely loved it. I have some wonderful memories of some great people that I would love to hear from. I now live just outside Wrexham so if you want to get in touch with me email me here and I'll get back to you.
Contributed by emma wood

Bay Hotel

I had a wonderful week's holiday based at the Bay Hotel in the first week of August 1968, when I was eleven, with my godfather and his wife. Got slightly tiddly one night on shandy: played Rummy for the first time: roamed all over Anglesey - or so it seemed! - birdwatching, which was then my new hobby, and has remained a faithful friend ever since. Waders and terns galore, and my first Great Crested Grebe....I was sorry to learn that the Bay Hotel has since been demolished, but I do have a similar smaller photo to this in my own collection from that wonderful year.
Contributed by Jonathan Hutchins

holiday place

Many many many, great holidays here. A very nice village. Sadly this place has now been knocked down and replaced with houses.
Contributed by malcolm lewsley

Guest houses in Beach Road

I spent most of my earliest summer holidays in the Fifties and Sixties at Rhosneigr and have idyllic memories of whole days spent with family or with friends of my age in the sand-dunes; campfires, charred sausages, shrimping in the rockpools and ice cream from the Marigold, pocket money to be spent at the Bon Marche or Madge Britton's shop opposite the clock. It was a case of history repeating itself, for my father, Clifford Hughes, had spent his summers there too in the 1920s at the guest house, Erylmor, in Beach Road run by his Aunt Mary, who retired to Beach Terrace. We stayed further down at The Anchorage, then run by the Bowdens - he, Geoff? was in the ...read more here
Contributed by Adrian Hughes

our parents owned Quality Stores next to the old Cinema

I am Delphine Chapple's sister and I lived in Rhosneigr for all my years at Holyhead Grammar School.  The walk or bike ride to the station was indeed more than any young person would contemplate these days.  With reference to Nicholas Farmer's comment above, if I remember correctly, the name of the local Doctor who lived next door to Pennyburn (Pen-y-Bryn?) was Dr Lloyd.  My husband and I were married at the parish church in Llanfaelog in 1967 by our grandfather -- Rev. H.L.Hughes who was retired and lived in a small cottage in Llanfaelog.  Our aunt, Betty Lloyd-Williams, owned The Marigold Cafe at the bottom of Beach Road, her son was Kevin Lloyd-Williams, who unfortunately passed away very suddenly a ...read more here
Contributed by Velvor Jones

rhosneigr

I lived in Rhosneigr until 1970.  I remember going on the bus from the clock to Holyhead school. Mr Lovatt was headmaster and I remember Mrs Hughes!!  Before the school buses started we went on the train, they had 2 buses from Rhosneigr going from Morris town and from the clock.  Gosh it was a long walk from my house to the station, bet kids would not do it now and we got rained on before and after getting to school in the morning.
Contributed by delphine chapple

Pennyburn

The house on the right of the picture, I lived in in 1963, and was then called Pennyburn. The house next door on the corner was the local doctor whose name escapes me. I attended Holyhead Grammer School and went by train everyday from Rhosneigr station. The headmaster was a Dr Lovett. I remember a restaurant called The Dolphin which was near to the clock tower.
My best friend in Rhosneigr was called Steve Reeve whose dad I think was called Mike and ran the petrol garage opposite The Dolphin.
The only other people I can remember was someone called Greg and Dia Bach whose father was the local vicar.
My e-mail address is nick_farmer45@hotmail.com if anyone else ...read more here
Contributed by nicholas farmer