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Beddgelert in past decades

Old photographs of a beautiful mountain village, famed for the legend of a faithful hound.

Iolo Griffiths

Iolo Griffiths

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Beddgelert in past decades

Two girls enjoy the flowers from Beddgelert after the village won the 1993 Britain in Bloom competition

The original Beddgelert station on the Welsh Highland Railway, as seen in 1932. 
Actress Ingrid Bergman during the filming of Inn of the Sixth Happiness at Beddgelert, in 1958. One tangible legacy from the film is the Buddha which can be seen in Portmeirion
Workers at 'Cutting Mawr' at Cwm Cloch, above Beddgelert, as the Welsh Highland Railway is built in the early 20th Century.
Comedian Frank Carson at a Wild West
A print of Beddgelert in about 1845, from the National Library of 
The Saracen's Head Hotel in Beddgelert
Beddgelert in 1938
Conservation isn't always a gentle matter, as David Brooke, Peter Roberts and Val Roberts, all of Llandudno, found when they joined the National Trust's Rhododendron Bash at Aberglaslyn Pass, near Beddgelert

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