Quiz Time!

[Hugo]

Now for the other quiz question.      Where in the Three Towns area is Vining Street?

[Hugo]

No guesses!      here's a clue then:-         You won't find it in the Street Index or Google either as I've tried that already

Spotty Dog, you were very quick with the last question and I would have thought that this one would be right up your street too 

[Hugo]

Like all the TV programmes now this question is also a repeat!       

You won't see it in Colwyn Bay or Conwy so where would you see it?

[Hugo]

You won't find it in Llandudno either but in a more rural location in between the three towns

[Peter]

Llangwstenin hall,found on page 147 of the quiz section!

[Hugo]

Well done Peter that was a good piece of detective work       


The sign is on an inside garden wall and is visible when you look through the metal gates

[Hugo]

A very easy one for a change             


1)     Where is this?
2)     What's the name of the business here?

[Robbie G]

Llanmgwstenin Hall  Wine & Bar

[Cambrian]

Just off Pabo Lane; below Pabo Hall.  Springbank Cattery.

[Hugo]

Well done Cambrian spot on with both answers           

[Hugo]

It's only easy if you know it,   this may be easy or it could be a stinker

Where would you see this on a garden wall?

Clue:-   it's in Queen Street

But where is it now and it hasn't moved!!

[Cambrian]

Cwlach Street ?

[Hugo]

You're on a roll Cambrian, there's no stopping you now.     Well done and well remembered         


The inscription is on the wall of the slightly elevated terrace of cottages that were known as Queen Street.    They were all owned at one time by George Brookes who lived at Victoria where the tram station is now.
At one time the whole street must have been known as Queen Street because my G Grandfather lived at No 22 in the 1861 Census

[Cambrian]

Thanks Hugo.  I have a record listing Cwlach Street in 1861.  Seems to be five houses there - possibly the name changed between the Census and the October 1861.  If you give me the name, I will see if I can find your G'Grandfather and the name of the house as there are no numbers give.

[Hugo]

Thanks very much Cambrian and I would like to take you up on your kind offer.       I have attached the 1861 Census that shows my  G Grandfather Hugh Hughes as living at 22 Queen Street
The page of the Census shows up to No 26 so there were a few houses in the two sections of Cwlach Street as it is now.

I've read the Chronicles of Thomas Rowlands who describes the people and the houses they were living in in the old village of Llandudno and  Queen Street seems to just refer to the 4 terraced cottages and in No 3 at one time lived Enoch Hughes who in his leisure time made clogs for miners.      I don't know for certain if this Enoch was an ancestor of mine but I do know that the Hughes family were carpenters and we did have an Enoch in the family in the 1800's     The family originated from Llanengan on the Llyn Peninsula

As an aside some time ago, Down Under   AKA  Hugh Davies was searching for his Grandfather's birth certificate and you made the vital breakthrough in the search by saying that Glan Conwy was in the Conwy Registration District which eventually led to Hugh obtaining a copy of the original certificate.      His Grandfather lived in Cwlach Street and I was able to find the address because luckily some of the old Welsh names of the houses still exist.    In actual fact the house was next door to the 4 cottages in Queen Street  ( on the right of the photo)

PS    I'm still trying to find a question for the quiz that you don't know