Inspired by The Red Phone Box Travels posts about doors, here are some interesting doors found around Llandudno in Wales. The first picture is of a side door to Gloddaeth Church which has some pretty stained glass windows.
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Throwback Thursday: Doors, Llandudno, Wales
Categories: Llandudno, Wales
Tags: architecture, church, door, photo post, Throwback Thursday
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Throwback Thursday: Post Box, Anglesey, Wales
This is an example of a wall mounted post box; this type were introduced in around 1857 as a cheaper alternative to the pillar box style for small towns and rural areas. They were either mounted into existing walls, as this one was, or into purpose built brick pillars.
Categories: Anglesey, Wales
Tags: architecture, history, photo post, post box, Throwback Thursday
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Throwback Thursday: Lamp Post, Llandudno, Wales
Originally a gas lamp, which was invented from around 1807, a lamplighter would have rested his ladder against the specially constructed set of horizontal bars, as they lit the flame at dusk and then again in the morning as they extinguished it.
Throwback Thursday: Post Box, Llandudno, Wales
Some of the first post boxes in the UK, dating from around 1866, were hexagonal in shape, like this one by the promenade in Llandudno with a cap that is decorated with acanthus leaves and which was designed by J W Penfold.
Throwback Thursday: Clock, Colwyn Bay, Wales
This clock, which has certainly seen better days, was outside a restaurant unsurprisingly called The Clock House.
Categories: Colwyn Bay, Wales
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Throwback Thursday: The Llandudno War Memorial
The Llandudno War Memorial commemorates those who died in both World Wars. It’s a large obelisk with a golden ball at the top that was first unveiled in 1922. It was designed by Sidney Colwyn Foulkes.
Categories: Llandudno, Wales
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Throwback Thursday: Bodlondeb Castle, Llandudno
Bodlondeb Castle in Llandudno was built as a house in the 1890s for Thomas P Davies. Davies, who was the manager of the local St George’s Hotel, had been commissioned by a rich guest staying at the hotel who wished to remain anonymous to build the castle. However, once he returned after the building had been completed and realised that it didn’t come with a big enough plot of land he declared he was no longer interested and left, leaving Davies with a huge building to try and get rid of. It was unsurprisingly known locally thereafter as Davies’ Folly.
The Welsh Mountain Zoo
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The Welsh Mountain Zoo in North Wales opened on 18 May 1963 and became the National Zoo of Wales in 2008. It was founded by the naturalist Robert Jackson and run by him and after his death by his family until 1983 when it was taken over by the Zoological Society of Wales. One of its more interesting features is its location, as the name suggests, high up a mountain with views of the sea as well as woodlands.
Categories: Colwyn Bay, Wales
Tags: bear, chicken, european brown bear, photo post, Polish chicken, red panda, snow leopard, video, zoo
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Beaumaris Castle
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Beaumaris Castle on the Isle of Anglesey in North Wales was another castle, like Caernarfon to be built by Edward I. Construction began in 1295 but stopped around 1300 with the castle unfinished.
Categories: Anglesey, Wales
Tags: castle, chapel, cow, Isle of Anglesey, photo post, ruins, seagull, stained glass
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Anglesey’s Bridges
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Anglesey is the largest island in Wales and connected to the mainland by two bridges, the Menai Suspension Bridge and the Britannia Bridge. We travelled over both on our way to and from Beaumaris Castle.
Categories: Anglesey, Wales
Tags: bridge, Britannia Bridge, Isle of Anglesey, Menai Suspension Bridge
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