The Trelawnyd Project

 I’m not the only village historian of sorts. My history blog https://trelawnydhistory.blogspot.com/ has been complemented and surpassed by Ma Manley’s beautifully designed book Trelawnyd Map 

Karen has been working on the book which is a work in progress and it looks at points of local historical interest, with gossipy asides and home drawn illustrations. It’s quite charming

As well as the book, Karen hopes to organising a quilt map of the village in a similar style which hopefully bring villagers together with their own corners of Trelawnyd to sew or stitch.

I’d love to be a part of this initiative .

On the way home I noticed that the beautiful Flower Show posters are up

Say. It

 

Well Street and The Pond

 

Unlike many rural Villages, Trelawnyd never had a featured pond in its centre. To the east of the village Pwll budr ( dirty pond ) was situated and Trefor Evans of Cwm road remembers it as a young boy as being “ unkept” and rubbish filled. 

Well Street, in the very heart of the village, unsurprisingly , featured a covered Well which for many years was the only source of water for the entire village. Situated away from the well was the spring run off and this provided the borders to Siambr Wen and the Still house an “ unofficial “ pond area of marsh ground. This area has been used as an unofficial tip and left as scrubland for years until the 1980s  it silted up completely , only being cleared three times , twice at the instigation of the Community Council and latterly by the Community Association who hopes to hold an open day soon to show what environmental benefits having a freshwater pond

 A series of standpipes were brought in by the village and council in the 1920s and can still be seen today up High-street, London Road, and The Marian. Most farms such as Pen Y Cefn Isa , down Cwm Road  still have their own wells, 

Trelawnyd a snapshot by resident Neville Lancelot

 These photographs were taken by Neville Lancelot and permission has been given to exhibit them here

A snapshot from 2022 some lovely photographs 

The View of Snowdonia from Gop Hill

St Michael’s Church with Gop Hill’s ancient burial mound clearly shown

The wall outside the Memorial Hall with advertisement by TCA 

Trelawnyd Community Association for their coffee morning

The war memorial outside the Memorial Hall and London Road Cottages

The “ new cemetery” behind St Michael’s

The Crown Pub in its new Battleship Grey

The new extension to Trelawnyd’s Primary School

The view down HighStreet 

London Road cottages with the old shop Ganol and Postoffice clearly seen ( far left)

The old part of Trelawnyd School

A proud looking Memorial Hall 

The hillside houses under the Gop

Jackson’s nursery’s which lies East of the village

Another view

 Around 1900

St Michael's

An original piece of art from village daughter Hattie Tea ( Guy)  who lives in one of London Road cottages

This week , Hattie and I will be ringing the Church bell in support of the Key Workers during the Covid outbreak
Another piece of history for the village to remember 

A Wedding

Thank you Rene Hancock ( daughter of Auntie Gladys) for sending me this wonderful photograph of a wedding reception in the memorial Hall.
Can anyone recognise any of the faces  bottom left are Bryn Davis and Pat Bagguley  and thedapper young man sat opposite is Basil from Ochr y Gop