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The Local => Local News & Discussion => Topic started by: Merddin Emrys on September 21, 2010, 02:48:51 pm

Title: The Little Orme
Post by: Merddin Emrys on September 21, 2010, 02:48:51 pm
A beautiful sunny morning so we thought its about time we walked up the Little Orme to the summit and what a view there is up there

Dead image links removed - DaveR

Title: Re: The Little Orme
Post by: DaveR on September 21, 2010, 06:24:45 pm
I fixed one of your photos which wasn't displaying, the first bit [ of the [IMG] tag was missing.  :)

I've never seen that little WWII outpost before, think I'll have to head up that way with the camera one clear day.  *&(
Title: Re: The Little Orme
Post by: Paddy on September 21, 2010, 06:33:51 pm
Wow! Fantastic pics Merddyn. what a beautiful place we live in.
Title: Re: The Little Orme
Post by: Merddin Emrys on September 21, 2010, 06:42:16 pm
I fixed one of your photos which wasn't displaying, the first bit [ of the [IMG] tag was missing.  :)

I've never seen that little WWII outpost before, think I'll have to head up that way with the camera one clear day.  *&(

 ))* Thanks Dave, someone came to the door while I was posting it and i didn't notice  :)

I should have used that picture in the quizz!
Title: Re: The Little Orme
Post by: Hugo on July 31, 2011, 04:15:05 pm
I had a short walk from the housing estate in Penrhyn Bay to Angel Bay the other day.  It was a lovely sunny day and the Bay was packed with families clearly making the most of the sunshine.
Last time I was here there were 18 seals on the beach but  they'll probably return to the beach in late September.
The photo is of the remains of the quarry works on the other side of Angel Bay.
Title: Re: The Little Orme
Post by: Ian on October 11, 2014, 08:51:42 am
This is a wonderful picture of the Great Orme (not the LIttle Orme, as previously posted) artillery training sites during WWII
Title: Re: The Little Orme
Post by: Cambrian on October 11, 2014, 09:06:25 am
This shows the main armament at the Coast Artillery School at Llys Helyg. A good photo nonetheless.

Title: Re: The Little Orme
Post by: Dave on October 11, 2014, 09:44:48 am
In my school days I was a regular at what we then called Shell Bay. We used to go fishing off the platform where the headland juts out in to the sea to the right of the beach but, particularly if the weather was bad, we used to go inside the quarry buildings which have now vanished along with most of the gun emplacements long gone in to the sea.Erosion there has been severe in the last 50 years and the cliff edge must be 30 metres back in some places where there is nothing but soil to hold back the sea.
It's an interesting place to go, much more compact than the Great Orme and if anything I prefer to wander there with my camera looking for wildlife shots.
Title: Re: The Little Orme
Post by: Hugo on October 11, 2014, 10:02:34 am
This is a wonderful picture of the Little Orme gun sites during WWII

Is that the Great Orme Ian because I can remember gun sites (minus the guns) on the Great Orme like those and my Uncle Bob used to live in a Nissen hut just around the corner along the track in the top left of the photo?
Title: Re: The Little Orme
Post by: Ian on October 11, 2014, 10:10:32 am
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This shows the main armament at the Coast Artillery School at Llys Helyg. A good photo nonetheless.

Interesting.  I was told these were of the Little Orme, and the others certainly are, but I also thought these guns looked significantly smaller than the sites I remember on the Little Orme. Must get the others out.
Title: Re: The Little Orme
Post by: SteveH on October 11, 2014, 10:36:16 am
If the Little Orme could talk, I would be in a lot of trouble.... WWW   those were the days. $good$
Title: Re: The Little Orme
Post by: Hugo on October 11, 2014, 10:47:37 am
You've been a very naughty boy Steve!       :o     :-[
Title: Re: The Little Orme
Post by: Gwynant on October 11, 2014, 11:56:02 am
                On the subject of the Little Orme gunsites, does anyone remember back in the 60's or early 70's a corrugated tin shack situated on the north-eastern end of the sites just above the path down into Angel Bay, where a lady used to live and come out and tell you to go away and leave her alone, even if you were just passing? The hut (and the lady) have long gone but I never knew who the lady was or why she was living there.
Title: Re: The Little Orme
Post by: Dave on October 11, 2014, 01:26:14 pm
                On the subject of the Little Orme gunsites, does anyone remember back in the 60's or early 70's a corrugated tin shack situated on the north-eastern end of the sites just above the path down into Angel Bay, where a lady used to live and come out and tell you to go away and leave her alone, even if you were just passing? The hut (and the lady) have long gone but I never knew who the lady was or why she was living there.

Neither she or the hut were there in the mid to late 60's from what I can recall but there were the remnants of buildings closer to Penrhyn Bay where the area has been cordoned off in recent years as the cliff edge is so unstable.
Title: Re: The Little Orme
Post by: Ian on October 11, 2014, 02:09:18 pm
There used to be a complete house there in the late '50s.
Title: Re: The Little Orme
Post by: Cambrian on October 11, 2014, 03:31:46 pm
Dr A H Stamp's very detailed book on the history of Penrhyn Bay contains a chapter on the Little Orme Quarry and a 1906 photo shows the house (actually a bungalow). I believe it was occupied by the quarry caretaker and was still there but abandoned when I visited around 1965.  The bases of the three gun emplacements were flooded by then - Dr Stamp traces some of the history of the site in his chapter on the Little Orme.

The guns at the Little Orme were used by gunners from the east and south coasts for practice purposes rather than training the trainers which was the role of the School at Llys Helig. The Little Orme camp doubled as an operational unit and as such was known as 21 Coast Defence Battery RA.
Title: Re: The Little Orme
Post by: Ian on October 11, 2014, 04:03:19 pm
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The bases of the three gun emplacements were flooded by then

They were clear and dry in the late '50s and were surprisingly massive. I remember climbing down into one of them and being amazed at just how huge they were. But then - I was only a kid at the time.
Title: Re: The Little Orme
Post by: SteveH on August 08, 2017, 09:27:53 am
Boy, 12, stranded 150ft up the Little Orme, Llandudno.

The boy and his dad had been trying to make their way up the face of the headland when the ground became unstable to walk on.
As a result the boy was unable to continue.

Llandudno coastguard’s specialist rope team, with support from colleagues in Penmon, Anglesey went to the boy’s assistance and performed a “tactical rescue” which involved staking lines at the top and lowering down via rope to the stranded youth.
The boy’s father was able to make his way to the foot of the hill by himself and neither were injured.

The coastguard teams were supported by Llandudno RNLI’s inshore lifeboat, which was called at 3.20pm, and the boy was successfully taken down in a harness by rescuers during a 90-minute operation.
Coastguard officer Rory Howell said: “We always urge the public not to attempt to climb up or down cliffs unless properly equipped to do so.
REF DP


Title: Re: The Little Orme
Post by: Hugo on August 08, 2017, 12:37:48 pm
That's a dangerous place to go climbing, I've always stayed clear of that spot .   I've got a feeling that the cave where they discovered a printing press was somewhere in that area although I've never dared go to look for it.