Colwyn Bay Heritage
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We are the Colwyn Bay Heritage Group. Check us out here: https://colwynbayheritage.org.uk Making the heritage and history of the Colwyn Bay area (Old Colwyn and Rhos on Sea too) accessible to all. Here too for Wales, history, antiquities and nostalgia.
From The Great Pottery Throw Down to the shores of Gwynedd! 🏺 Read our chat with local ceramicist Jane Williams on how the Welsh landscape inspires her pottery - plus her favourite hidden-gem walk in Dyffryn Ardudwy. 👇 Read the spotlight: www.dioni.co.uk/local-artist...
📚️Catalog Newydd! 📚️ Rydym wrth ein boddau yn rhannu ein catalog Hydref Gaeaf 2026! Ewch ati i bori drwy'r llyfrau y byddwn yn eu cyhoeddi cyn hir, gan gynnwys llyfrau gan Samuel Parry, T. Robin Chapman, @jerryhunter.bsky.social, @bethanscorey.bsky.social a llawer mwy! www.uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/...
📚️ New Catalogue! 📚️ We are so excited to share our Autumn Winter 2026 catalogue! Follow the link below to browse our fascinating upcoming titles 📚️ www.uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/... Including titles by @rachelcordasco.bsky.social, @knick666.bsky.social, @bodhisattvac.bsky.social ... (1/2)
This photograph was taken 100 years ago, in 1926. It shows members of the Treharris and District Central Relief Committee. The Committee worked to raised funds to provide food and other necessities to miners and their families during the long coal strike of that year.
In August 1953 Colwyn Bay celebrated the Coronation and also the Golden Jubilee of the Colwyn Bay Horticultural Society with a huge two-day show. It was supported by many organisations. Thousands attended and it didn’t rain! #colwynbay #northwales #wales #localhistory #gardening
Colwyn Bay Horticultural Society - Colwyn Bay Heritage Group
Colwyn Bay Horticultural Society prides itself on an unbroken existence since 1903.
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“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future." But also, we see THEIR future, don’t we? My mum And my dad #FamilyHistory
Such a striking building. "The Town Hall was originally the magistrates courts. The courts closed in the 1990s and became the Council Chamber and offices of the then newly established Bay of Colwyn Town Council."
Police Station And Town Hall, Rhiw Road - Colwyn Bay Heritage Group
The Police Station and Town Hall were built in 1905-7 by Walter Wiles, the county architect of Denbighshire.
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Wishing everyone in Penmaenmawr & Conwy area well tonight - stay safe 🤞. Such challenging drought conditions with this added wind www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Villagers urged to evacuate due to wildfire on Conwy Mountain
Firefighters were working in "challenging conditions" in order to contain the blaze.
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#FindsFriday The figurehead & sections of wood from the schooner Alice Williams still grace the barn/dining room on beautiful Skokholm Island in Pembrokeshire, after the ship was wrecked on the island's treacherous rocks in 1928. Recorded during our new fieldwork: coflein.gov.uk/en/sites/273...
Wrecked Fish Shop, 1941, following the Swansea blitz, painting by Will Evans, Welsh artist.
This is a new accession to Gwent Archives which shows the sale of Nevill Hall and all the estates of the Marquiss of Abergavenny in September 1916.
The Dingle: A woodland glade along a stream sounds like a good walk for a hot day! #colwynbay #northwales #wales #localhistory
The Dingle - Colwyn Bay Heritage Group
The Dingle Path runs through a woodland glade along a stream, starting at the viaduct and ending on Abergele Road.
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From the Rijksmuseum collection, how about this neat 17th century travel case for your miniature skull. Just the thing I need, a shame they don't sell them in the gift shop ..
Coastal fog or sea-fret moving back to the coast this morning on Bae Ceredigion/Cardigan Bay, seen from home Have a great Thursday folks 🌞🔥
Ancient Egyptian hedgehog shaped pottery vessel 🦔❤️ Dated c. 1539-1292 BC. Ashmolean Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology
Gabrielle Patterson, UK's 1st woman flying instructor & 1 of "first eight" #WWII Air Transport Auxiliary female #pilots in 1940. She instigated the #AmyJohnson Memorial Fund, in memory of her late #ATA pilot colleague in 1941. b. #OTD 6 Jul 1905 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel...
Following National Eisteddfod tradition, the gorsedd stone circle was placed in Eirias Park in preparation for the proclamation ceremony of the Royal National Eisteddfod, which took place on June 26th, 1940 #colwynbay #northwales #wales #localhistory
Gorsedd Stone Circle - Colwyn Bay Heritage Group
Following National Eisteddfod tradition, this gorsedd stone circle was placed here in preparation for the proclamation ceremony of the Royal National
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Happy 4th of July - This is the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, in Philadelphia. #FourthOfJuly #AmericanRevolution #WelshAmericanHistory
As it's timely 😀 here's our post about the history of the James Alexander Barr Tennis Centre. Still there and you can find out more about the centre today here: shorturl.at/TnO0A #colwynbay #northwales #wales #localhistory #sport #tennis
James Alexander Barr Tennis Centre - Colwyn Bay Heritage Group
The origins of the Eirias Park we recognise today began in 1921. By 1933 among the park's attractions were eight grey shale tennis courts.
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‘Buddo’ - a rare representation of a human figure from the British Neolithic, dating to around 2900-2400 BC. Discovered at Skara Brae in the mid-C19th, it was re-discovered amongst the archaeological collections at Stromness Museum in 2016. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Orkney #Prehistory
An amazing morning of aerial reconnaissance with the incredible @profaliceroberts.bsky.social filming for her new series #Grounded 🔥 We looked at the course of the Roman campaigns in Eryri/Snowdonia & their impacts on the local tribes.. Great piloting by Dan at Caernarfon Airport 🚁👌 #RCAHMW
MICHAEL PALIN ⭐️ & TERRY GILLIAM ⭐️ sign A FISH 🐟 for charity National Brain Appeal 🧠 + Signed by CAROL CLEVELAND ⭐️ + SUZY IZZARD ⭐️ + Big thanks to sculptor #NickElphick ⭐️ @ Colwyn Bay Terry Jones ⭐ statue unveiling event 25/4/26 Video🎥here👉> youtu.be/5aA2j-W4nAk @colwynbayheritage.bsky.social
It's the only #BlueSky day that counts 🧐 #HillfortsWednesday 🍻 Walk with me into the giant (13.6m diameter 😮) excavated roundhouse inside Dinas Dinlle coastal fort, Gwynedd - which is currently being lost to the waves An incredible Roman-period home by the sea 🌊 🎥 My own, yesterday
This seems appropriate for ta summer's day and also for the Somme anniversary. Poppies at Raskelf near Easingwold. Image Chris Combe CC BY 2.0
Happy #nationalseasideday! Today we launch our 4th annual #bucketandspade list awards. You can vote for your favourite seaside attraction from our list of top ten nominations - #tinsidelido #shellgrotto #harbourbar #scarborough and more! See the full list at seasideheritage.org.uk/bucket-spade...
