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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!
Contributed by Meirion Jones
Gwynedd memories
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
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
Bronddwyryd
Not exactly my memory (only 44yrs old). But in the research of my family tree, I have been interested in locating old pictures of Bronddwyryd. The small row of houses were built in 1880, and my great grandfather Richard Evans (1846-1912) was the first to rent the property. His son, my grandfather Evan Evans (1880-1954) lived there with his wife Annie Mary Evans (nee Hughes) (1884-1946) with his mother Margaret Evans (nee Jones) (1848-1929).
Evan Evans then bought the property in about 1923 for the grand sum of 900 pounds. When he died in 1954, he left the house in his will to his eldest daughter, Annie Blodwen Casson (nee Evans) (1920-1996), she died in Canada where she lived.
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A memory of Blaenau Ffestiniog contributed by Tracy Evans
Extracts From Ffestiniog & Gwynedd books
This isolated petrol station and café three miles from Ffestiniog proclaims itself the highest petrol station in Wales. Its isolated position has lent itself to appearing in several films - once as a sheep station in the Australian outback! A local farmer, who appeared in the film, recalls how two Australian tourists almost careered off the road when a road sign erected as part of the set pointed to somewhere they knew back home in Oz. Needless to say, they did see the funny side to this.
An extract from from"Wales Living Memories".