BAE COLWYN

Just along the coast from Rhyl is Towyn, not to be confused with the town on the West Wales coast. Passing here is preserved 46229 Duchess of Hamilton. 

Further west is Abergele and Pensarn station, where a Crosville Bristol Lodekka open-top bus is operating along the coast.

Just outside Abergele is Gwrych Castle, once the home of a miniature railway.

 Coed Coch, Dolwen, formerly Heronwater School c1960, a couple of miles inland.

Back to the coast and, at Old Colywn, we find the Old Red Lion.

Mr Google and Whatpub report that the Sun Inn at Old Colwyn is "long term closed".

Our next stop is down there.

Along Colwyn Bay sea front was a minature railway.

Colwyn Bay has a pier. It's suffered from various fires, but has been restored. Here's a 1950's postcard view.

Some more modern postcard views of Colwyn Bay.

Colwyn Bay railway station, up platform, by Noel Walley 2006 (Creative Commons License).

This 0-6-0T locomotive once resided on the other side. All gone now.

Crosville Wales was serving Colwyn Bay in 1993.

Colwyn Bay Urban District Council once ran a tiny fleet of buses on a town service. This angular Bedford was once found operating it.

The UDC also operated to The Zoo, where KJC90P was photographed. 

Time for a quick look at a postcard of Rhos-on-Sea.

If all this is confusing you, here's a link to the map. Anyway, just inland is the village of Glanwydden where we find the Queen's Head.

And so onwards to Llandudno. Here, we're looking back towards the Little Orme around 1970.

The east end of Llandudno Promenade.

An old postcard view of this area.

Mostyn Street, in Llandudno town centre, circa 1950 (Photographer unknown).

The town centre, sometime around 1968.

Back at the beach and the lifeboat is ready to launch.

Again, it's some time around 1970 and here's Llandudno Pier.

And it's "goodnight" from a postcard of the pier.

Next time, we'll see more of Llandudno and ascend the Great Orme.