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The station canopy, which was constructed by the GWR, survived intact until some glass fell out in late 1979, and it was shortened early in 1980. Today only the concourse and a short section of the platform remain covered. Pwllheli has one platform, a siding and a loop. [5]
Pwllheli Lifeboat Station is located in the town of Pwllheli, which sits on the Llŷn Peninsula, in the historic county of Gwynedd, Wales. A lifeboat station was first established here by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in 1891. [1] The station currently operates a D-class (IB1) lifeboat, Robert J Wright (D-811), on station since ...
Pwllheli (Welsh: [pʊɬˈhɛli] ; listen ⓘ) is a market town and community on the Llŷn Peninsula (Welsh: Penrhyn Llŷn), in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. It had a population of 4,076 in 2011, which declined slightly to 3,947 in 2021; [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ better source needed ] a large proportion (81%) were Welsh speaking. [ 3 ]
Donald Angus Cameron of Lochiel, 77, Scottish clan chief and public servant, Lord Lieutenant of Inverness (2002–2021). [263] Gerry Cranham, 94, English sports photographer. [264] Haydn Gwynne, 66, English actress (Drop the Dead Donkey, The Windsors, Billy Elliot the Musical), cancer. [265] Donald Mackay, 86, Scottish-born Canadian chemical ...
Butlin's Pwllheli was a holiday camp located near Pwllheli in Wales. The site is now used by Haven Holidays for a caravan park and has been renamed Hafan y Môr . When originally opened in 1947, it was named Butlins Pwllheli, but in 1990 was renamed Starcoast World .
[7] [8] In 1902, the council moved to the new building, which is now known as Neuadd Dwyfor, and sold the old town hall to the Pwllheli Liberal Club. [9] The building was grade II listed in 1949. [1] In the 1950s, the ground floor of the building was used for a while by a firm of corn merchants, Prichard Ellis. [10]
The Pwllheli and Llanbedrog Tramway was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge horse tramway on the coast of the Llŷn Peninsula in North West Wales, UK.It was originally constructed to convey building stone from Carreg-y-Defaid to Pwllheli's West End, [1] [4] with a second element to run between Pwllheli town centre and the West End resort on the seafront.
The property was preserved just as it was in 1917 by the poet's family and his nephew Gerald Williams (d. 2021), who was the last of his relatives to live on the farm. [23] For years, Gerald and his brother Ellis continued to farm the land surrounding the farmhouse as custodians of both Yr Ysgwrn and Hedd Wyn’s legacy, welcoming visitors and ...