Llanfairfechan
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- 4 photos on Llanfairfechan appear in 3 Frith books - View photos of Llanfairfechan
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A wet weekend in Wales!
I used to work and study in Manchester for several years in the 1960's and frequently travelled back to my home town of Hatch End to see my girlfriend, Angela Chapuis. Sometimes she would come up north to see me. One wet weekend in April 1967 Angela and I set off from Manchester to visit North Wales in my old car. We stayed in youth hostels and hoped to climb Snowdon as both of us enjoyed outdoor adventures with the scouts and guides over the years. We were beaten back by appalling weather so she took me to nearby Llanfairfechan to see her grandparents instead. The warm cottage was a most welcome respite. I have not seen Llanfairfechan since 1967 and ...read more here
Contributed by John Howard Norfolk
Gwynedd memories
A wet weekend in Wales!
I used to work and study in Manchester for several years in the 1960's and frequently travelled back to my home town of Hatch End to see my girlfriend, Angela Chapuis. Sometimes she would come up north to see me. One wet weekend in April 1967 Angela and I set off from Manchester to visit North Wales in my old car. We stayed in youth hostels and hoped to climb Snowdon as both of us enjoyed outdoor adventures with the scouts and guides over the years. We were beaten back by appalling weather so she took me to nearby Llanfairfechan to see her grandparents instead. The warm cottage was a most welcome respite. I have not seen Llanfairfechan since 1967 and ...read more here
A memory of Llanfairfechan contributed by John Howard Norfolk
Names of the people in photograph
The men on the wall are (looking from left to right)
Charles Matthews
William Matthews
Sydney Matthews (Charles's son who died quite young.)
The little girl in the background was a Miss Jones who lived at No 1 West End.
A memory of Beaumaris contributed by Mr DM Owen
Holidays at Conwy
For several years in the early 60's our family spent our summer holidays at the caravan park just outside the town of Conwy. I have very happy memories of visiting the castle and the lovely town. Often in the late afternoon we would walk to town via the Harbour Walk and spend a lovely evening by the harbour quay where I recall there was a little pub where you could sit outside. My father would have a beer and my mother a shandy. Along the Harbour Walk there was an old sanitorium which had fallen into disuse. I wonder whether it's still there, it seemed a fairly substantial building. My brother and I were amazed by the "smallest house", there was ...read more here
A memory of Conwy contributed by Joan Grey
Extracts From Llanfairfechan & Gwynedd books
Llanfairfechan is regarded with increasing favour by tourists and holiday-makers, who frequent the out-of-the-way parts of Wales. This charming little watering-place may be described as having a wooded and well-sheltered situation at the foot of the Penmaenmawr Mountain, and with a singularly lovely seaward prospect.
An extract from from"50 Classics - Seaside".
The resort is described in an 1890s guidebook: ‘it has a wooded and well-sheltered situation and a singularly lovely seaward prospect. No great crowds of holiday-makers are seen in our illustration, but the astute observer may discern significant signs of the rising watering-place’.
An extract from from"North Wales Photographic Memories".
This pleasant stone-built Victorian seaside resort clusters beneath the steep craggy slopes of the coastal mountains on Conwy Bay, and looks across the broad eastern approaches of the Menai Strait to Anglesey. This photograph shows the narrow twisting Main Street constrained beneath the mountain.
An extract from from"Welsh Address Book".
This pleasant stone-built Victorian seaside resort, just west of Conwy, clusters beneath the steep craggy slopes of the coastal mountains on Conwy Bay. It is now bypassed by the A55, and looks across the broad eastern approaches of the Menai Strait to Anglesey. The Frith photograph shows the narrow twisting Main Street constrained beneath the mountain. The few pedestrians and single horse-drawn cart give no hint that this spot was soon to become a major traffic bottleneck.
An extract from from"North Wales Photographic Memories".