Llanfairfechan, Main Street 1908
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Photo of Llanfairfechan, Main Street 1908

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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.

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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 of three lugged theodolites and notebooks along the lanes and over the hills for at least ...see more
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 ...see more