Yesterday I caught up with Iola Endres.
Her father had owned the village shop (siop Ganol) from 1929 to 1969, after which she and her husband ran it until the mid 1980s and interviewing her, I knew would be a real boost to My Trelawnyd History blog.
She proved to be a mine of information and resources and gave me a whole file of information to sift through, which included old photographs of the village and an ancient newspaper article out of the The Welsh Coast Pioneer (which proclaimed itself as being the "best paper in North Wales") The article showed a hitherto unseen photograph of the chapel on Chapel street before its refurbishment and the newspaper clipping itself was dated around 1908
My favourite photograph must be however a small snapshot of a biplane which came down in the Gop fields around 1938. Iola is the baby who is being carried by Megan Lewis
What was it doing there? We had an old biplane fly over the cottage yesterday, it had a very unusual engine sound.
ReplyDeleteno one seems to remember why it landed.....I will invesigate
ReplyDeleteExcellent photo. I am off to read Mrs. Endres' "interview" on your other blog!
ReplyDeleteHope you have a good day today!
meggs.
By the way... it's a marvellous thing you are doing - capturing the village's history before the guardians of it leave the stage. Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteThe plane landed because planes cannot stay up in the sky interminably. They have to come down to earth from time to time. Refuelling is vital. Without it planes would simply crash. I hope that answers your query.
What a wonderful photo, a real find in someones family photo album that one.
ReplyDeleteAll I have in the remains of my ancient family photo collection are a few snapshots of Uncle Hess next to his plane in Scotland...
you missed the sarcasm on my blog post, i do believe...the mentally ill can talk about the illness, yeah?
ReplyDeleteMarvelous. You are the story keeper, well done you !
ReplyDeleteit's not in relation to a cave bub. i was like "what's this?" then had to hunt down the issue-causin blog and all that. :)
ReplyDeleteVery cool photo!!
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