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This information board is one of fifteen on the Llandudno Heritage Trail and is located in Gloddaeth Street near Garden Street. It has the following wording in English:

No 14 Gloddaeth Street
Laid out 40 years before the advent of the motor car, this Victorian boulevard
links Llandudno's shores.

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Dig Street
Gloddaeth Street is named after the Gloddaiths, a farming family who lived here in medieval times and married into the Mostyns, Llandudno's founding landowners. Gloddaeth Woods (Coed Gaer), southeast of town, and Gloddaeth Hall, a 16th-century country house that once belonged to the Mostyns, are also named after them.
The Llandudno Museum and Gallery is based in the Victorian villas at 17-19 Gloddaeth Street. The museum sprang from the private collection of Francis Edouard Chardon (1865-1925), a wealthy gentleman artist who lived on Fferm Bach Road, near Gloddaeth Woods. The museum now includes 9,000 artefacts from prehistoric to the recent past, including important archaeological finds. It organises guided walks delving into different aspects of Llandudno, such as its architectural heritage and the history of the Jewish community.

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i) Say hi to Blodwen
A star of the Llandudno Museum is Blodwen, the lady of the Little Orme, a Neolithic woman whose fragmented skeleton was discovered in a deep fissure on the Little Orme in 1891. From isotope tests on her skeleton and skull and analysis of the pig bones found nearby, it's believed that she belonged to a community of early farmers and had a meat-based diet. Around 1.5 metres tall, she died in her late fifties around 3510BC. At some depth below her were the bones of prehistoric hyenas, rhinos and bears.
ii) John Bright, the grieving benefactor
The politician and social reformer John Bright (1811-1889) frequently travelled to Llandudno to visit the grave of his young son Leonard in St Tudno's churchyard. Bright founded schools on Clement Avenue and Lloyd Street, and the present-day Ysgol John Bright is named after him. In a speech, he said: "When I look at the position of your town on the beautiful bay; when I remember all the courtesy and all the kind attention with which I have met, I am free to say that I have great faith in your future".
iii) Post it!
The rectangular post box topped with a pyramid and ball outside the former Post Office at 5 Gloddaeth Street, near the Mostyn Street roundabout, is exceedingly rare. Probably installed in the 1910s, it is one of just three pillar boxes of its type still in active service in the UK, and the only one bearing the insignia of George V. It's thought that an extra-large box was chosen for this location since so many seaside postcards used to be posted here every day.

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i) Image: Donkey carriages on Gloddaeth Street in 1890 (The Francis Frith
Collection)
ii) Image: John Bright in 1876 (Lock and Whitfield/Kodak Collection)
iii) Image: Blodwen's skeleton at the Llandudno Museum (CCBC)

Published by Conwy County Borough Council (CCBC) December 2022
visitconwy.org.uk