In the early 1950s Mining undergraduates at the University of Birmingham practised land surveying at Llanfairfechan. They lodged for most of June at Newry Cottages, now Plas Heulog. The task was to traverse the area south of Newry to where Afon Llanfairfechan is formed by the confluence of three smaller streams. Teams (...Read full memory)

My mother was evacuated from Liverpool because of the May blitz of 1941. She was 7. We have just been over for the 80th commemorative ceremony and exhibition in Penmairmayr with her and my 2 sisters...it was very sad and at the same time great to be able to take her back. We visited the house where she stayed and the area. It was a memorable 2 days