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Pleasure grounds of Bee Hotel in 1860s
Following my post of an 1860s advert for the Bee Hotel with its pleasure grounds, in the same publication, I found this engraving actually showing them:
After seeing the original post, Huw added a comment, saying the
“Pleasure grounds are probably Bee Fields, where the library, clinic and car park are now located.”
Well, looking at this engraving, Huw’s exactly right.
The 18 most-searched for Welsh words
“What’s x in Welsh?”, “Welsh word for y” … I’ve been researching words people search for on Google using phrases like these.
Here’s the Top 18:
1 Wales – Cymru
2 thank you – diolch
3 love – cariad
4 John – Sion
5 blue – glas
6 carrot – moron
7 I love you – dwi’n dy garu di
8 goodbye – hwyl fawr
=8 good morning – bore da
10 microwave – ffwrn meicrodon or popty-ping
11 hello – su’mae?
12 grandmother – nain or mam-gu
13 services – gwasanaethau
14 how are you? – sut wyt ti?
15 family – teulu
16 sheep – dafad (one) or defaid (plural)
17 good luck – pob lwc
18 beautiful – prydferth
Source Google Keyword tool, based on collation of monthly search queries around concepts of English-language keywords connected with ‘welsh’, ‘word’ and ‘translation’. Accessed January 2010 by Gareth Morlais.
P.S. a bit off-topic as far as Abergele news goes, but I hope you’ll share this if you find it interesting.
(Originally published 12 January 2011)
When Richard II hid near Abergele
“Near Abergele, known for its sea baths, is the ogof (or cave), traditionally the refuge of Richard II. and the scene of his capture by Bolingbroke in 1399.”
– Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 “Demijohn” to “Destructor”
Old High St Windmill
This is a watercolour by Harry Gee of the old limewashed windmill that used to be attached to the red brick warehouse at the bottom of High St. Note how the warehouse used to be taller than it is today.
White horses on Abergele beach
Welsh rhyme about Abergele
I’R FFAIR.
Ar garlam, ar garlam,
I ffair Abergele;
Ar ffrwst, ar ffrwst,
I ffair Lanrwst.
– Owen M. Edwards, Yr Hwiangerddi
This is an old out-of-copyright Welsh nursery rhyme.
Translation:
At a gallop, at a gallop,
To Abergele fair
In a hurry, in a hurry
To Llanrwst fair.
It’s from a collection of Welsh nursery rhymes gathered together by Owen M. Edwards, who also founded the Urdd Welsh youth movement.
Photo of iconic Abergele shop J. Pierce Williams
This was always a beautiful shop – the most beautiful in the whole of Abergele. I wish, when the Halifax too it over, that they’d placed their branding in such a way as to preserve more of the character of this old shop.
Sea Road as it used to look
Charles Darwin’s childhood memories of Abergele
“I was born at Shrewsbury on February 12th, 1809, and my earliest recollection goes back only to when I was a few months over four years old, when we went to near Abergele for sea-bathing, and I recollect some events and places there with some little distinctness.”
– Charles Darwin.