Pwllheli
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Pwllheli books (2 available)
Llandudno Town Walk Guide
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Pwllheli memories
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Vacations!
As young parents along with our two daughters we would spend many happy vacations in Pwllheli. Mostly at Butlins Holiday Camp. So many happy memories, arriving at the camp, hoping we would get Blue Camp as it was closer to the amusements and the tennis courts. The times we would visit the Pwllheli Market. So many happy memories of Pwllheli. Even now to this day we still talk about those happy days. Both our daughters are grown up now with children of their own so perhaps one day they might take their own children to show them Pwllheli.
Contributed by Brenda Vanderwert
Picton Castle
I lived in Picton Castle,and as a thirteen year old, I delighted to throw plums off our tree down into the playground of Troed Y Allt school,and watch the scramble of the children take place! It was whilst we lived there that the entire walls were covered with stone pieces, and I would enjoy jumping off the scaffold onto a big heap of sand. Happy days indeed.
Contributed by Robert Jones
Troed Yr Arllt
I went to this school in 1957 my teacher was Miss Jones she lived near Pwllheli she always wore a smock flowery pattern when she was teaching us she was lovely also i remember Wendy Shields
Contributed by delphine chapple
Gwynedd memories
Vacations!
As young parents along with our two daughters we would spend many happy vacations in Pwllheli. Mostly at Butlins Holiday Camp. So many happy memories, arriving at the camp, hoping we would get Blue Camp as it was closer to the amusements and the tennis courts. The times we would visit the Pwllheli Market. So many happy memories of Pwllheli. Even now to this day we still talk about those happy days. Both our daughters are grown up now with children of their own so perhaps one day they might take their own children to show them Pwllheli.
A memory of Pwllheli contributed by Brenda Vanderwert
Extracts From Pwllheli & Gwynedd books
Pwllheli (the name means ‘saltwater pool’) was granted its charter in 1355. Set on the south coast of the Lleyn peninsula, at the mouth of the Penrhos river, it was once a thriving commercial port; but the sea threw a sandbank across the mouth of the Afon Erch, causing the maritime trade to dwindle away. It has since developed as a pleasant seaside resort with a lengthy sandy beach and a little harbour. It is an important market centre.
An extract from from"North Wales Photographic Memories".
Pwllheli possesses perhaps the finest sandy beach in Wales; and there can be no doubt it will become one of the most attractive seaside places in the kingdom. The air is delightful, and the sanitary arrangements all that could be desired. The South Beach Land and Building Corporation Limited are building very extensively; and hotels, boarding and private houses are now being erected very rapidly.
An extract from from"50 Classics - Seaside".
Horses tread the tramway along Pwllheli’s busy promenade at Marian-y-mor (then known as West End). The tramway had opened two years earlier, in 1896, and was closed in 1927. The old town was originally about a quarter of a mile from the sea, but since 1888, a contemporary guidebook tells us, ‘the South Beach Land and Building Corporation Limited are building very extensively; and hotels, boarding and private houses are now being erected very rapidly’.
An extract from from"North Wales Photographic Memories".
This view of the promenade looks south-east around the curving sweep of the bay. The popular 3 ft 6in gauge tramway ran for four miles along this dune-backed coast to Llanbedrog. ‘Pwllheli possesses perhaps the finest sandy beach in Wales’, says the late Victorian guidebook, ‘and the sanitary arrangements are all that could be desired’.
An extract from from"North Wales Photographic Memories".
The grand old West End Hotel looks out over the promenade and Cardigan Bay at Marian-y-mor. The seafront terrace, West End Parade, was built in the late 19th century. Pwllheli’s harbour, with Gimlet Rock at its mouth, had been improved by the formation of a large embankment to resist encroachment by the sea, and shipbuilding, fishing and coasting trade went on.
An extract from from"North Wales Photographic Memories".