Siop Ffowc at Chester House, Stryd Fawr, Deiniolen
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Siop Ffowc at Chester House, Stryd Fawr, Deiniolen
Image: © Eric Jones Taken: 1 Jan 1921
This photograph, taken in the eariy 1920s by an itinerant commercial photographer shows Foulk Williams, Bryn Gro in the door of his grocery store in the slate quarrying village of Deiniolen. Foulk a quarryman at Dinorwig Quarry had been badly injured fighting with the 10th Batt RWF in the Battle for Delville Wood in June 1916 and was physically incapable of returning to the quarry. He and his wife, Jennie, ran the shop until his death in 1965
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Image Location
Latitude
53.147031
Longitude
-4.125712