Cemaes Bay, Penrhyn Bay c.1965
Photo ref: C317164
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Photo of Cemaes Bay, Penrhyn Bay c.1965

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'There is no sport equal to that which aviators enjoy while being carried through the air on great white wings.' Wilbur Wright (1867-1912), pioneering aviator. Reach for the skies with this selection of aviation photographs from The Francis Frith Collection.

A Selection of Memories from Cemaes Bay

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Cemaes Bay

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I moved to Cemaes to a house called the Beacons; the views from the front room were fantastic - on a clear day you could see the Isle of Man, and in winter the waves would hit the windows and would be caked in salt. We would go all night fishing off the rocks below with Hywel Jones (Hyw Bach), Gwyn Rowlands (Stitchy) and David Hughes (Dei Podge). I grew up in Cemaes from age around 11 upwards and ...see more
It was always a sense of adventure searching for new place to visit on our holidays - and certainly we found an idyllic spot just a mile or so outside the town of Cemaes Bay. Mother had been staying with my younger sister who was in the final weeks of her pregnancy - so to give Mother a rest before baby arrived we took her with us, I contacted the owner of a house overlooking the bay - or rather - her ...see more