Llandygai
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Llandygai is a small village and community on the A5 road between Bangor and Talybont in Gwynedd, Wales. It affords a view of the nearby Carneddau mountain range. The population of the community taken
Church of St Tegai
Llandegai Village, 1855
Steam train taking the bend prior to entering the tunnel at Llandegai
Wyatt family memorial at St. Tegais Church
Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, was a British Conservative Party politician, landowner in Wales. He played a major part in the development of the Welsh slate industry.
Llandygai
…Llandygai is recorded at the beginning of the nineteenth century as consisting of eight or nine houses. The village was later developed by quarry owner The 1st Baron Penrhyn (1800–1886) as a ‘model village’ for his estate workers, in which ‘no corrupting alehouse’ was permitted. It lies immediately outside of the walls of…
Portrait of Edward Gordon Douglas Pennant
"Slate". Caricature by "Spy" (Leslie Ward) published in Vanity Fair in 1882.
Lord Penrhyn with a deputation of quarrymen from the Penrhyn Quarry