Friday, September 27, 2019

Five at Deganwy

On the way home from our break in Wales we dropped into the little town of Deganwy whilst on our way to RSPB Conwy.

As it is Friday here are five things we learnt about the town whilst we were there.


1.  The town is on the Creuddyn Peninsula at the side of the Conwy Estuary, not far from Llandudno and Rhos-on-Sea with views across to Conwy and out towards Angelsey.


2.  We parked on the station car park.  The trains running on this line are the main line train to Manchester and the smaller Conwy Valley Line which calls at places like Llanrwst, Betws-y-coed and Blaenau Ffestiniog.  Shelters have replaced the original station building which was built in 1866. From about 1876 Deganwy became a popular seaside attraction.


3.  Visitors came off the trains at the station and joined  paddle steamers which ferried them down to the popular spa of Trefriw sailing across the river from Deganwy to Conwy before reaching their destination.


4.  The Edwardian Beach Shelter along the promenade was built in 1904 and was damaged by a a severe storm in 2014.  Local residents set up the Beach Shelter Restoration Team and with help from local councils the Heritage Lottery Fund and HAFOD it was restored in 2017.  The promenade on which the shelter stands is part of the Wales Coastal Path and the National Cycle Network.



5.  One of Deganwy's noted personalities is Commander Harold Lowe who was 5th Officer on board RMS Titanic.  He assisted in launching several lifeboats before taking charge of lifeboat number fourteen.  He collected three other lifeboats and formed a raft, then he returned to the wreckage looking for survivors.  He found four of them and headed back towards RMS Carpathia stopping to help another lifeboat which was in trouble and he towed it to safety.


22 comments:

  1. Beautiful area... With a famous local person...

    🍁🍂🍎🍂🍁

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    1. Thank you WoW, it was lovely in the early morning sunshine:)

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  2. That's a rather magnificent beach shelter, so glad they were able to restore it.

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    1. Thank you John, it was great to see it restored apparently it is well used:)

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  3. An interesting post Rosie with lovely photos. The beach shelter looks super - it is wonderful they were able to restore it. I really like your evocative final photo. I hope you have a lovely weekend.

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    1. Thank you RR, it is a quiet place and a little run down in certain areas asare many seaside towns but the promenade and shelter were lovely and the views wonderful:)

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  4. Such interesting places you've visited this summer with lovely photos & accompanying words.
    Take care & thanks for sharing.

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    1. Thank you Susan, just a small place but it was lovely to see it. Hope you have a good week ahead:)

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  5. You can imagine the folk from the cities coming for a coastal holiday and taking that ferry ride. It still looks a beautiful and peaceful area today. The beach shelter was worth restoring. It would be pleasant to sit there.

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    1. Thank you Linda it must have been wonderful in its heyday with trains and paddle steamers and people out to enjoy themselves. I doubt they would recognise it today:)

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  6. Lovely that the shelter was restored. It looks like a pretty little seaside town. Have a good weekend. B x

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    1. Thank you Barbara. The shelter looked wonderful and the views from there across the estuary were spectacular, hills, castles, islands. Hope you have agood weekend too:)

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  7. For such a small town it has excellent communications, just my sort of place! very pretty in the sun, really peaceful looking. Delightful. 😊

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    1. Thank you Karen, yes it certainly benefits from being on a main railway line and still having the trains stop there, it is very peaceful now:)

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  8. I want to travel with you. What an interesting little town, quaint and pretty. Our beaches don' look like that with the cute artistic shelters. Wales has been on my list of places to go for some time. Looks like you had a great day!
    Sandy's Space

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    1. Thank you Sandy. Wales is a very beautiful country and I love visiting, there is so much of it still to see:)

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  9. I have commented before, but I'm asking you, to Please read my latest post........

    Please and thank you...

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    1. Ok WoW, will do when I get back from a day out later today, I've had a quick glance and it needs a bit of thought before I answer as it is an important issue:)

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  10. Lovely photos, a nice way of doing a post :)

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    1. Thank you Pam, a few of us used to do 'Five on Friday' quite regularly, although this has now finshed one or two of us still use the format sometimes to write a post:)

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