Date
15 May 2021
Location
Bethesda
Tag Archives: Rain
Forest in the rain
B&M in the rain
B&M in the rain
Date
25 February 2017
Location
St David’s Retail Park, Caernarfon Road, Bangor
SH 57090 71100; 53.21766°N, 4.14179°W
Information
Public Park, Newburgh
Public Park, Newburgh
Date
22 August 2016
Location
Newburgh, Fife
NO 23074 18501; 56.35254°N, 3.24637°W
Eglwys Sadwrn Sant
Eglwys Sadwrn Sant
Date
6 February 2016
Location
Llansadwrn, Anglesey
SH 55365 75877; 53.26011°N, 4.16978°W
Information
Llansadwrn, situated in Cwn Cadnant on the Isle of Anglesey, is named after St Sadwrn’s Church, which was founded around 500 CE. The present building, erected on the foundations of its medieval precursor, was designed by diocesan architect Henry Kennedy and built in 1881. The church received a Grade II* listing in 1968.
After leaving the military, Sadwrn Farchog (Sadwrn the Knight) came to Wales from Brittany and established a church in what was to become Llansadwrn in Carmarthenshire. He later moved north to Anglesey, where he lived as hermit. A 6th century memorial stone bearing his name was discovered in 1742 and is now set into a wall inside the Anglesey church. Sadwrn’s name in Latin is Saturninus, which can lead to his confusion with various other saints with the same name.
Further Reading
Church of St Sadwrn, Cwm Cadnant (British Listed Buildings)
Edinburgh’s Christmas 2015
Edinburgh’s Christmas 2015, Princes Street Gardens
Date
26 December 2015
Location
Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
NT 25411 73849; 55.95184°N, 3.19604°W
St Andrew’s Square, Edinburgh
NT 25571 74115; 55.95425°N, 3.19355°W
Information
Edinburgh’s Christmas is a programme of events and activities taking place in a number of sites in the city centre from 20 November 2015 until 4 January 2016. St Andrew’s Square hosts the Scottish Market, an ice rink and a show venue The Spiegeltent. Located in East Princes Street Gardens are various funfair attractions – including a Ferris wheel, helter skelter and ice rink – together with a traditional European Christmas market.
Further Reading
Bangor Crematorium
Bangor Crematorium
Date
26 July 2015
Location
Bangor
SH 59237 71782; 53.22436°N, 4.10996°W
Information
Bangor Crematorium, which handles around 1000 cremations per year, is operated by Gwynedd Council. It is situated within Bangor Cemetery Garden, which first appeared on the Ordnance Survey map in its 1900 edition.
Port Penrhyn
Port Penrhyn
Date
26 July 2015
Location
Port Penrhyn, Bangor
SH 59229 72579; 53.23152°N, 4.11044°W
Information
Public art and wet benches
Gorilla sculpture outside the Alpine Coffee Shop
| Date | 31 May 2015 | ||
| Location | Betws-y-coed | SH 79515 56573; 53.09271°N, 3.80066°W | |
Beaumaris Cemetery
Beaumaris Cemetery
| Date | 12 April 2015 | ||
| Location | Beaumaris, Anglesey | SH 59930 75606; 53.25890°N, 4.10127°W | |
|
Information |
Beaumaris Cemetery was designed by architect J Francis Clerke and was built between June 1862 and April 1863 on a plot of land given to the town council by Sir Richard Bulkeley Williams-Bulkeley (1801-1875), 10th Baronet, of Baron Hill, who was at the time Member of Parliament for Anglesey and Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire. The cemetery chapel was consecrated in July 1863 by the Bishop of Bangor, James Colquhoun Cambell (1813-1895).
|
||
Belgian Promenade
High tide in the Swellies and a partially flooded Belgian Promenade
| Date | 8 November 2014 | ||
| Location | Menai Bridge | SH 55296 71708; 53.22264°N, 4.16892°W | |
|
Information |
During the First World War around 60 refugees from Mechelen, between Brussels and Antwerp in Belgium, were accommodated by the town of Menai Bridge. In appreciation of the welcome they received they helped to build a walkway, completed in 1916, along the banks of the Menai Strait from Carreg yr Halen – former landing place of the Porthaethwy Ferry – to Ynys Tysilio (Church Island). The 400m-long walkway, known as Belgian Promenade, was rebuilt after storm damage in the 1960s and, more recently, its surface was renewed in 2000.
|
||
