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Transport in North Wales in past decades

Discover how people travelled around the region in bygone years.

Iolo Griffiths

Iolo Griffiths

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Transport in North Wales in past decades

Crew of the Gracie of Porthmadog. She was built in Porthmadog in 1907, and was sold to a new owner in Newfoundland in 1916.

A packed Crosville coach in the lanes of rural North Wales in 1970
A three-masted barque at Holyhead in 1958
This horse-drawn tram was about to set off in 1927
Llandudno's Great Orme tram
PC Craig Jones pictured in Rhosneigr in 1995 with the bicycle he has restored. He saw two 1950s bicycles at Menai Bridge police station, which were not even listed on the station's inventory. He obtained permission to take them back to his police house in Rhosneigr and restore them.
Eryl Owen from Rhyl, entered a competition in a national newspaper, which was organised to help Ormond Street Hospital in 1997 and won this new Daewoo Nexia car
Bangkok?: No, Rhyl actually. Does anybody remember the rickshaw service on the promenade? We believe the picture was taken in the 1980s

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