Aberdovey
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- 8 photos on Aberdovey appear in 4 Frith books - View photos of Aberdovey
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Rain or shine Tywyn is fine
I was born in Brynhielog TYWYN, in January 1944. My Mother had taken my brother to her sisters house as it was war time. My dad was a a London Bobby based in Commercial Street Spitlefields.
After the war we made the trip back to Tywyn Christmas,Easter and for two weeks in the Summer.We used to catch the Cambrian Coast Express from Paddington, a through train (not like today) The only one who ever had a seat was my Mum it was so packed with service men, we sat on our cases all the way.
All my mums family would be at the station to greet us.
How I loved the open fields, the walks to the beach and into ...read more here
A memory of contributed by Eleanor Bristow
Mixed Feelings
I first arrived in Llanegryn at the latter end of 1939 along with my younger sister and a lot of other kids from my school (St Johns)in Birkenhead. I was eight years old at the time and my sister was six. We were all put into the village hall where people of the neighbourhood came and took us to different addresses. A lady from the next street to me in my home town was with us as she had two girls about 5 and 6 and a little boy under 2 years old. They were chosen along with my sister by Mrs Evans of Gessail Farm, but I wasn`t included. My father told me before I left home "don't let ...read more here
A memory of Llanegryn contributed by Bob Boyd
memories of the village
Having moved back to Shrewsbury, my family and I spent many holidays in the village in the 1950's and we spent many day trips on Sundays in the village, parking by the Friends burial ground and having a picnic lunch and enjoying the sea air and the lovely beach. I would have my Ian Allan railway spotters book and would write down all the locomotive numbers. This exercise gave me a lifelong love of the Cambrian railways system. More recently I have collected postcards of the village and have a total of 110 out of 159 I have traced. Of course Francis Frith were the most prolific of publishers and I am trying to catologue them but have several gaps. I ...read more here
A memory of Llwyngwril contributed by tony russell
Llwyngwril in the 1940's and 1950's
I was born in Shrewsbury in 1940 and my mother and I moved in with my grandmother at tawelfan in 1941. This was opposite the lane that leads down to the beach via the Friends burial ground and alongside another lane that lead up to Llwyn ddu farm and a footpath that took you up and over the mountain.
A memory of Llwyngwril contributed by tony russell
Extracts From Aberdovey & Gwynedd books
St Peter’s, the Victorian church in the middle of the picture, was Aberdovey (or Aberdyfi’s) first church, though the song ‘The Bells of Aberdyfi’ suggests that an earlier church lies drowned beneath the waves of Cardigan Bay. The gardens rise steeply behind the cottages, the irregular plots divided by walls and unkempt shrubs.
An extract from from"North Wales Photographic Memories".
In this view of the seafront just west of the harbour, a lone wagon stands on the siding from the Aberdovey Harbour branch line. The seafront terraces and hills behind remain much the same today, and boating has grown ever more popular in the Dyfi estuary, which is fringed by wooded banks.
An extract from from"North Wales Photographic Memories".
This small seaside town on the west coast overlooks the wide sandy expanse of the Dyfi estuary. It is sheltered from the north wind by hills rising to the sombre Welsh mountains south of Cadair Idris. Today it is popular for watersports, but formerly it was an important sea port. The coastal trade was very important to Aberdyfi during the 19th century; earlier, smuggling had been rife. This picture of the front shows a cargo vessel and numerous small fishing boats beached opposite the church.
An extract from from"North Wales Photographic Memories".
Three tall ships are visible; the one on the far left is just setting sail. The town relied on the sea for employment, and it was once an important rival of Holyhead for the Irish ferry. The seafront houses create a pleasing harmony, the result of the efforts down the years of individual architects and owners, unlike in the previous photograph.
An extract from from"North Wales Photographic Memories".
The ornamental cannons, mounted on far too new-looking carriages, add a
romantic if not very realistic contribution to this scene. More practical are the
Welsh coastal schooners, which are lying alongside the moles comprising the
jetties of the harbour, possibly awaiting copper or lead cargoes mined locally. The
main stem of the jetty continues to serve craft belonging to the Outward Bound
Sea School.
Tenby
An extract from from"Picturesque Harbours Photographic Memories".