I’ve not always been that keen on Conway in summer – we’ve never found anywhere to eat – but liked it out of season, seeing the Castle from the quay:-

And we liked the Palace Cinema, by the same architects as Harlech Theatre, but pre-war and pseudo-medieval:-

The Civic Hall, now sold for redevelopment, has an odd 1960s extension, totally out of sympathy with its surroundings:-

There are good medieval houses:-

The smallest house in Britain:-

And fish-and-chips in the Castle Hotel.

St. Mary, Tal-y-Llyn is the sole survivor of a village which was swept away by the Black Death: strange to think of it without a congregation for more than six hundred years, isolated and surrounded by farmland:-

The second of the two great Anglesey Bridges is the Britannia Bridge, designed by Robert Stephenson to take the railway to Holyhead and accidentally burnt down in 1970, leaving only the great stone piers intact:-

We went to explore the glories of the two great bridges which guard to crossing to Anglesey, astonishing feats of engineering, particularly the earlier of the two, the Menai Suspension Bridge, the construction of which began in 1819, when George III was still on the throne:-

It’s a fine combination of robustness and elegance, standing so high above the Menai Straits:-