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Offline DaveR

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Lithographs
« on: September 07, 2010, 10:06:57 pm »
I'm just transferring over the photos from the old forum and was struck once again by how clear this image of Llandudno from the 1880s is:

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Re: Lithographs
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2010, 10:08:24 pm »
Another one:


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Re: Lithographs
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2010, 11:56:10 pm »
What a beautiful, pristine, unspoilt town,,,,,,
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Re: Lithographs
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2010, 07:59:00 am »
No traffic...
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Si hoc legere scis, nimis eruditionis habes.

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Re: Lithographs
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2010, 08:54:33 pm »
I can see my house!

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« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2010, 09:13:18 pm »
As Ian says, it is the absence of traffic that makes it look all so uncluttered. Imagine how peaceful it must have been back then.   D)

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Re: Lithographs
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2010, 04:41:40 am »
On 29th August 1867 John Hulley and others responded to the request of the Llandudno townsfolk by organising another Grand Carnival. During the day, as the programme has it, "in order to restore a light on the evening’s amusements, a bazaar for the sale of Chinese lanterns was extemporised on the parade." At a little after 8 p.m., a grand procession of boats, illuminated all over - rigging them astern - with lanterns and coloured fire, was started from the landings steps.

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Re: Lithographs
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2010, 10:59:04 am »
I can see my house!

So could I on the other one of this series from the old forum !
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Re: Lithographs
« Reply #8 on: October 06, 2010, 10:09:29 pm »
Llandudno in 1870:
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Llandudno from the Little Orme in 1855:
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Llandudno Custs Path 1855:
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Llandudno Bay in 1856:
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Independent Chapel Llandudno in 1857:
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Re: Lithographs
« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2010, 10:15:00 pm »
Couple more from the early days of Llandudno:

Llandudno Bay in 1860:
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Llandudno in 1856:
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« Reply #10 on: October 06, 2010, 10:36:32 pm »
At the risk of being labelled obsessed ... in that first picture, from 1860, I think the original Pier is just visible, is it not?




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« Reply #11 on: October 06, 2010, 10:38:38 pm »
On second look ... no, I can see no sign of the original Pier,  it would have been near the Baths hotel.   It is not apparent.

I was confused by what is probably a boat on the far right,  but that is the wrong position for the pier.

 
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« Reply #12 on: October 20, 2010, 06:23:04 pm »
St. Tudno's Church, Great Orme, in 1857:

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Re: Lithographs
« Reply #13 on: February 13, 2011, 01:58:21 pm »
On Post #8  re the picture from 1870, where would you have to stand to see that view today? I can't make it out!

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Re: Lithographs
« Reply #14 on: February 14, 2011, 09:34:25 am »
mm agree with you there-- that tower looks familiar, but I don't think it had been built then.
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