St Fagans, The Grounds, Welsh Folk Museum c.1960
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Arguably more appropriately termed a mansion, the 'new' St Fagans Castle stands atop its impressive terraced gardens. The original castle, built in Norman times for the Le Sor family, fell into ruin early in its life to be replaced by a typically Elizabethan house. The 'Cambrian Traveller's Guide' of 1813 was a little sceptical, pointedly recording that 'the village contains a castle of somewhat modern construction'.

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A Selection of Memories from St Fagans

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 St Fagans

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My grandparents and great-uncle and aunt lived and worked at Parc-y-Felin farm in the 1930s. My mother and her sister went St Fagans school. Although the farm was demolished in the early 1960s the farm cottage still survives where my great-uncle used to live. It was a milk producing farm, the dairy was at the rear of the farm which I think was powered by a water wheel, the water was supplied by the River Ely by a water channel which my mother called the "race".