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Summer Holidays At Dol Y Bont
I have very fond and happy memories of Borth & Dol-y-Bont. Most of my childhood school holidays were spent in the lovely village of Dol-y-Bont where my grandparents, Nan and Pop Pallister lived. They originally ...Read more
A memory of Dol-y-Bont in 1975 by
Talybont Growing Up
I lived in Maes-y-deri Talybont as a child until I left to go to Australia in 1976. I remember Talybont school as a great place to go and we sang in the Chapel frequently. We also belonged to a youth group though the name escapes ...Read more
A memory of Talybont in 1972 by
Fun In The Sun
Our late grandparents Bob and Alice Maudsley owned a caravan on Cambrian coast in 1965 to 1969, me and my sister Kerry spent our school holidays playing on the beach and riding round the camp in the site owner's landrover, his name was ...Read more
A memory of Borth in 1966 by
My Stay In Borth Umer 1965
I came to Borth at the age of 15. I was with a youth group of baptists from Rogerstone, Newport in Gwent. We stayed for a week at The Grand Hotel. We had religous education in the mornings and then the rest of the day was ...Read more
A memory of Borth in 1965 by
Borth Y Gest Simply The Best
I'm privileged to be the first to leave a memory relating to Borth Y Gest. I first had a holiday there in 1964. The owner of the factory where my dad was director owned a lovely holiday home in an elevated position ...Read more
A memory of Borth-y-Gest in 1964 by
My Love Of Brynowen Continues
I do not remember my first visit to Borth as I would have been a few months old around about the spring of 1963. As a family we then returned every year staying at Brynowen, sometimes twice a year, until I turned 18 at the ...Read more
A memory of Borth in 1963 by
Where I Grew Up
I was born at 19 London Road, Tanyard Cottages near Holy Trinity Church. My grandadparents lived in Station Road near the village hall. My great aunts owned Hope Cottage Farm, Station Road. Many times when I was a kid I ...Read more
A memory of Hurst Green in 1958 by
My Mum Was Born In Borth Y Gest
My mum was born in Borth y Gest and went to school there too and eventually marry at the church on the harbour front in 1956. My Grandad continued living there with my Grandmother until he died in 1984. Every ...Read more
A memory of Borth-y-Gest in 1957 by
Largs Zoo
As distant memory serves me, the zoo was the brain-child of a local man by the name of Frank Roche. He was also owner of two rea-painted boats which were used for taking tourists on tours around the Cumbraes. They were "Comet" and "Carefree". ...Read more
A memory of Largs in 1955 by
Borth A Sea Born Village
I was raised in Borth from 1952 until I went to sea in 1968 and it was still very much home and sanctuary at every opportunity until I moved to Australia in 1991.The second son of Aran and Eileen Morris of Bel-Air I remember ...Read more
A memory of Borth in 1952 by
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This view illustrates the three main occupations of the people of Borth – seafaring, farming, and tending to the needs of holidaymakers.
Bigbury-on-Sea lies on the shores of Bigbury Bay within site of Burgh Island, which may give the village its name.
The square is named after the founder of the burgh.
To the north of Borth lies Ynyslas, which consists of a fine series of sand dunes, many now protected as a National Nature Reserve.
This is the original nucleus of Borth village from which picture No 30253 was taken (page 59).
This small village had a café, the Dolybont Café (centre), whose sign was visible from the road between Talybont and Borth – the proprietors hoped that holidaymakers would stop on their way to or from
St Matthew's Church was built on a hillock a few hundred yards inland from Borth.
This is the first view that many visitors would have had of Borth.
were planted to commemorate AE Housman, the poet most famous for his volume of poems 'A Shropshire Lad' - one poem begins 'Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough
also met his death in the New Forest by 'a pestilential blast', while the King's nephew - also called Richard - died either by being shot by an arrow or by strangulation after being caught up in the boughs
Medieval Gothic arches can be seen beyond the splendid cedar's spreading boughs, while the rest of the house has more of a Tudor character.
Beyond them is the headland on which the Borth war memorial was built after the First World War.
Only the Burgh Heath Parade and the petrol station are recognisable today in this view from The Green, Reigate Road.
Much of Borth consists of a single street with houses on both sides that gradually spread between the railway station at the north end of the village to a group of fishermen's houses built in the lee of
also met his death in the New Forest by 'a pestilential blast', while the king's nephew, also called Richard, died either by being shot by an arrow or by strangulation after being caught up in the boughs
Clydebank became a burgh in 1886.
A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.
The mansion of the mighty 15th-century De Burgh family, with a great central hall and long side wings, it is a miracle it survived, having at various times been a prison, a factory and tenements.
It was made a royal burgh in 1592.
Nork is a suburb that merges south into Burgh Heath in the large triangle between Reigate Road, Brighton Road and Fir Tree Road, the north boundary of Nork.
Dumfries itself became a royal burgh in the 12th century, but the two towns were not officially amalgamated until 1929.
An ancient royal burgh, Perth was once capital of Scotland.
Jabez Goode was an interesting man who lived in Burgh le Marsh in Victorian times.
To the north of the north porch there is a massive, very ancient yew tree, its weary boughs propped on posts.
