PORTMEIRION HISTORY

- The Place and its Past -

A look at more than a century of the resort's past and its early years, using old pictures and maps, together with a thousand year historical account.

HISTORY 10 PAGE

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Hillside view, dovecote visible on the left.

 View from the Observatory Tower.


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Mermaid cottage before its verandah was added.

 Later Mermaid frontage, with Chantry seen behind.


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Angel, Neptune, Mermaid and summer time monument

 Hercules Hall (Town Hall), with Angel to the side.
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Old Names of Buildings and Structures (continued) - see main map and key on History 2 page.


90 WILLIAM WILLETT MEMORIAL I SUMMER TIME MONUMENT

91 WILLIAMS ELLIS COLUMN

92 WOODLAND (CHINESE) BRIDGE

93 WOODLAND GAZEBO (green top & black supports)

94 WOODLAND GAZEBO (green top & red supports) I CHINESE T'ING

95 WOODLAND GAZEBO (stone) I CLASSICAL TEMPLE

96 WOODLAND SHELTER (painted, canopy front) & SEAT

97 WOODLAND SHELTER (stone) I SHELTER VALLEY I THE GREAT ABRI BELVEDERE I THE LANE

98 WOODLAND STATUE (painted flat tin figure)

99 WOODLAND (stone) BRIDGE I entrance to OLD FERRY COTTAGE I remains of old SHEEP PEN I PONDS or LAKES I BOUNDARY WALL

100 Y GWYLLT (acquired 1941) I MAIN WOODS ENTRANCE I WOODLAND WALKS I HANGING WOODS I WILD GARDENS I THE WOODS / COED ABER IA/ PLEASURE GROUNDS (see also 29)