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Mostyn Street, LLANDUDNO, LL30 2RP

This OS cut mark can be found on the Library. It marks a point 5.831m above mean sea level.

On the left is one of the entrances to the Victoria Shopping Mall. On the right is #50 Mostyn Street. It was formerly an outlet store for the sports clothes manufacturer "Animal". It closed in February 2014 when the firm went into liquidation. http://www.dailypost.co.uk/business/business-news/three-animal-clothes-stores-close-6671768 Outside the shop is a busker known as the Travelling Bagpiper Image

Busking outside the former "Animal" store on Mostyn Street Image is Stuart MacLaughlan aka the Travelling Bagpiper. According to his website http://www.travellingbagpiper.co.uk/ he was born in Bathgate, began playing at the age of seven, has been a full-time professional Piper for the last 20 years and claims to be the most photographed Piper in the UK! So well here it seems is another one.

The Mostyn family have had a significant impact on the town of Llandudno. On this site they built the first library in 1873 but this picture depicts the second library, once again built by the Mostyn family. It was completed in 1910 and benefited from a grant of £4,000 from the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. The library was extended in 1939 and 1994 and has an extensive local history archive.

Closing down sale.

The Victoria Shopping Centre on Mostyn Street was built during the 1990's. Most of the land in that part of Llandudno is owned by the Mostyn family through Mostyn Estates. There are height restrictions and colours schemes in place. These are replicas of original Victorian canopies further down the road.

This information board is one of fifteen on the Llandudno Heritage Trail and is located outside the library at 48 Mostyn Street, LL30 2RS. It has the following wording in English: No 1 Llandudno Library Welcome to the heart of the Victorian resort of Llandudno, with its fine views up Mostyn Street to the Great Orme. Lower left column Get your bearings Llandudno Library moved here from its original home on Happy Valley Road in 1873. The pair of camperdown elms that shade the frontage date back to that era. This was a time when the Victorian resort of Llandudno was getting into its stride, with horsedrawn carriages hurrying to and fro along Mostyn Street. Motor cars arrived in the 20th century, and from 1907 to 1956, trams ran up the middle of the street, clanking as they went. The library was remodelled in the Edwardian Baroque style in 1910, and has since been updated several times. Today, it's fully accessible, with public computers and free Wi-fi. Why not drop in? Llandudno Tourist Information Centre is nearby too: it's in the Victorian Centre, right behind you. Lower middle column i) Prehistoric roots This region has been inhabited for thousands of years. The earliest known example of portable Welsh art - a decorated horse's jaw bone, over 13,500 years old - was found here in the 1870s and is displayed in the British Museum. The seaside resort of Llandudno was founded in the Victorian era and named after the sixth century Early Christian missionary Tudno, pronounced Tid-know. St Tudno's Church on the northern slopes of the Great Orme marks the spot where Tudno had his place of prayer. It's still an active place of worship. ii) The Mostyns, Llandudno's founding family This used to be all fields! In the early 1800s, the land between the Great Orme and the Little Orme was farmland and saltmarsh where Welsh-speaking fishermen, farmers and copper miners lived and worked. In the 1840s, local aristocrat Edward Lloyd-Mostyn decided it would be perfect for a resort. He acquired the common land in 1848 under the Enclosure Act, and began leasing building plots. From then until the early 1900s, Victorian Llandudno developed steadily. The Mostyns, Wales' oldest landowners besides the Crown, still own much of the town today. iii) The Queen of Welsh Resorts Victorian Llandudno was elegant through and through. Owen Williams and other architects designed its grand terraces using fashionable seaside styles: stucco-fronted, neoclassical or Italianate. The new buildings were laid out in a grid, on streets that were wider than the houses were high. Unlike the old cottages on the slopes above the bay, they had private indoor bathrooms instead of outside closets. Frightfully modern! Right column i) Image: The Great Orme, as it may have looked in the early 1800s (The National Library of Wales) ii) Image: Mostyn Street in 1908 (The Francis Frith Collection) iii) Image: A postcard of St Tudno's from the 1910s (Conwy archive) Published by Conwy County Borough Council (CCBC) December 2022 visitconwy.org.uk

Now in administration - January 2013. Interestingly the signage on the door still indicated a 24 hour printing service - I think not.