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Abbey Road, COLWYN BAY, LL28 4NY

Postbox No. LL28 48. See Image] for context.

View from Abbey Drive. The reverse of https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7811899

Showing position of Postbox No. LL28 48. See Image] for postbox.

Looking towards the centre of Rhôs. This was the route of the Llandudno and Colwyn Bay Electric Railway, a tramway between those two towns which ran until 1956.

This OS cut mark can be found on the wall of No5 Church Road. It marks a point 4.192m above mean sea level.

View from Elwy Road. The reverse of https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7811934

Classic inter-war housing with mock half-timbering.

Looking towards Penrhyn Bay and the Little Orme. This was the route of the Llandudno and Colwyn Bay Electric Railway, a tramway between those two towns which ran until 1956. The roadway on the left is where the tramway depot was situated.

In 1909 Lloyd George introduced the People's Budget, which started Old Age Pensions, but also included a tax on land values to help pay for them.. This provoked much indignation and opposition from landowners across the UK and a Mr Horton, who owned most of the land in Rhos-on-Sea at the time, put up a toll gate here on the Promenade in protest, and called it The Budget Toll Gate - hence the name of the house. He sold the road and its tollgate to the tram company in 1911 when they built their new tramway. However the tram company continued to charge a toll to cars using the road, until they became bankrupt in 1961. The toll was only abolished in 1963, when the council bought the road and gave it its first proper surface. Cars were being charged a shilling (5p) and (perambulators a penny) at the time of its closure. (Rhos on Sea Heritage Trail information)