More buildings of interest around Llandeilo
The Library
Llandudno Town Library in Mostyn Street stages a permanent exhibition illustrating the development of the town. The Library has a good local history study centre if you want to find out more about the town and its people. The Llandudno Tourist Information Centre is located in the Library.
The Post Office and Oriel Mostyn Gallery
On Vaughan Street stand the Post Office, built in 1904, and the adjacent Oriel Mostyn Gallery, built in 1901 to house the extensive art collection assembled by Lady Augusta Mostyn. By 1914 the gallery was empty and was requisitioned for use as an army drill hall. It was used for storage and warehousing until 1979 when it re-opened as an art gallery presenting occasional public exhibitions. Redevelopment of the gallery started in June 2007 and when completed there will be five exhibition galleries.
The Promenade
The wide sweep of the beach extends for two miles in a graceful curve between the headlands of the Great Orme and the HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Orme" \o "Little Orme" Little Orme. For most of the distance on Llandudno's North Shore there is a wide curving Victorian promenade separated from the roadway by a strip of garden
St George’s Hotel
This famous four star hotel was built in 1854 and was the first hotel on the newly created Llandudno Promenade. It has been patronised by many famous visitors including no fewer than seven UKPrime Ministers, from Disraeli to Baroness Thatcher.
Penfold Hexagonal post box
On the footpath directly in front of the Queen’s Hotel stands a Penfold hexagonal post box of 1866 still in regular use. It is one of the few six-sided pillar boxes surviving in Wales.
The Pier
This pier is considered by Cadw to be the finest Victorian pleasure pier in Wales.
From the pier you can take in the sweep of the bay, and you can see the way the town has been laid out, and its uniformity. The pier was built for the Llandudno Pier Company by Walter Macfarlane of Glasgow and was opened to the public on 1 August 1877.
Y Tabernacl
The Welsh Baptist Church at the corner of Llewellyn Avenue and Upper Mostyn Street was used by the United Welsh Church of Llandudno until 2006 and it is now used as the Llandudno Heritage Centre. The chapel is a perfectly preserved example of a 19th Century Welsh Baptist chapel. The adjoining Schoolroom currently houses the ‘Stori Llandudno’ exhibition.
Empire Hotel
The Empire Hotel was originally a block of shops, the first 'emporium' in Llandudno, built in 1854 and housing a chemist, a grocer and an Italian warehouse all run by Thomas Williams, a young man from Denbigh. In 1855, Williams published the 'Visitor's Hand-Book', the first tourist guide to Llandudno.
The Palladium
Originally a music hall, the Palladium has been adapted several times as a cinema, bingo hall and is now a busy theme pub. Outside the Palladium is a most unusual post-box. It is square and very large in order to accommodate the great volume of seaside postcards written every day in the holiday season.
Town Hall
Llandudno Town Hall was designed in 1894 and won a £50 prize for the architect. The budgeted cost was £10,000 and the land was a gift from Lord Mostyn to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. But building did not start until 1899 and was completed, after the failure of two builders and much litigation, in 1902. A Government inquiry was held into the cost of the project, which had doubled!
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