Quiz Time!

[Trojan]

Was The Links closed that night, Trojan?     

 

[DaveR]

This is a photo of John & Mary Knowles. They lived in Llandudno in 1972. What was unusual about them?

[Fester]

They weren't called Roberts?  or Thomas or Hughes? .... that makes them unusual....

[DaveR]

What was unusual about them was where they lived..... a dank, cold, unsafe structure.

Seems like nothing changes for the Knowles family. L0L

[Merddin Emrys]

they lived in a cave

[Merddin Emrys]

What was unusual about them was where they lived..... a dank, cold, unsafe structure.

Seems like nothing changes for the Knowles family. L0L

   

[DaveR]

they lived in a cave

Correct, and here's a pic of Mrs Knowles in the cave:

[Merddin Emrys]

I wonder if Jehovah's witnesses ever call?

[DaveR]

I think its that same cave we were looking at on Sunday morning.

[Fester]

Thanks Dave!

Does that mean I should be re-christened?   How about Fester Yr Ogof?      

They would have saved a fortune in rent and council tax,  enough to buy those expensive coats!

[Merddin Emrys]

I think its that same cave we were looking at on Sunday morning.

I thought it might be

[Trojan]

It's Ogof Arth or Bears Cave and where the township of Gogarth derived it's name from.

It's been lived in by different people for some time.

A Llandudno troglodyte, John Stephens claimed to have lived in the cave for fourteen years, when he was interviewed by a newspaper reporter in 1862.

Another resident, Gwilym Hughes, lived in the cave for a number of years, before he was evicted by the Council and then housed in one of their flats.

I remember seeing Mr John Knowles around town.  

[Trojan]

Where, in Llandudno, will you find these buildings?

[Mikethewatch]

Loretto ?

[Paddy]

It's Loretto Cnvent. It used to be a school aswell and I went there from age 9 to 12.