Llandudno, Conwy - Ormes Bay, general view - lovely 1960s Dixon postcard

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• Picture / Image:  Llandudno, Conwy [formerly Caernarvonshire] - shows the town from a distance along seafront road and Llanudno or Ormes Bay
• Publisher:  J Arthur Dixon (Wales 737)
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Llandudno (Welsh pronunciation: [?an'd?dn?]) is a seaside resort, town and community in Conwy County Borough, Wales. In the 2001 UK census, the community, which includes Penrhyn Bay and Penrhynside, had a population of 20,090.^[1]

Llandudno, ""Queen of the Welsh Resorts"", a title first implied as early as 1864,^[2] is now the largest seaside resort in Wales, and lies on a flat isthmus of sand between the Welsh mainland and the Great Orme peninsula. Historically a part of Caernarfonshire, Llandudno was formerly in the district of Aberconwy within Gwynedd.

The town of Llandudno developed from stone age, bronze age and Iron Age settlements over many hundreds of years on the slopes of the limestone headland, known to seafarers as the Great Orme and to landsmen as the Creuddyn Peninsula. The origins in recorded history are with the Manor of Gogarth conveyed by King Edward I to Annan, Bishop of Bangor in 1284. The manor comprised three townships, Y Gogarth in the south-west, Y Cyngreawdr in the north (with the parish church of St. Tudno) and Yn Wyddfid in the south-east.

This great limestone headland has many attractions including the Great Orme Tramway that takes tourists effortlessly to the summit.

By 1847 the town had grown to a thousand persons served by the new church of St. George, built in 1840, the great majority of the men working in the copper mines with others employed in fishing and subsistence agriculture.

In 1848, Owen Williams, an architect and surveyor from Liverpool, presented Lord Mostyn with plans to develop the marsh lands behind Llandudno Bay as a holiday resort. These were enthusiastically pursued by Lord Mostyn. The influence of the Mostyn Estate and its agents over the years was to become paramount in the development of Llandudno and especially after the appointment of George Felton as surveyor and architect in 1857. During the years 1857 to 1877 much of central Llandudno was developed under Felton's supervision. George Felton also undertook architectural design work including the design and execution of Holy Trinity Church in Mostyn Street.

The town is just off the North Wales Coast railway line which was opened as the Chester and Holyhead Railway in 1848, became part of the London and North Western Railway in 1859, and part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923. Llandudno was specifically built as a mid-Victorian era holiday destination and is served by a branch railway line opened in 1858 from Llandudno Junction with stations at Deganwy and Llandudno.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=wales

county/ country=caernarvonshire

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period=1945 - present

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