Silent Sunday Cemetery Scapes ~ St. Tudno's, Great Orme

Five Cherubs

And

With the 

Morn

Those

Angel Faces

Sleep

In 

Loving Memory

Edward Thomas Harris

The Beloved Husband of Elizabeth Harris

St. Tudno's  Gt. Orme

Born ~ unreadable

Died July 2?th 1915 

When I saw Laurie's recent post at Graveyard Detective I recognised it and straight away I knew that I had a  photograph very similar to his one. 
So just like playing the children's card game of 'Snap' here is my offering.
However I think that I can 'trump' yours Laurie with my five cherubs to your three.....

Click on the bold type link above to see Laurie's post.

Monday Mourning ~ Dolgarrog Disaster

In Loving Memory of

John Stanley Taylor

1 Machno Terrace, Dolgarrog

Aged 29 years

also of

Dorothy Buddug

his wife

Aged 24 years

and

Sylvia Doris

their daughter

Aged 17 months

who lost their lives in the

Dolgarrog Disaster on

November 2nd 1925

The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away

Blessed be the name of the Lord

On the night of the 2nd of November 1925, the failure of two dams caused a flood that swamped the village of Dolgarrog, killing 16 people. Many more villagers could have been killed had they not been in the local theatre watching a film that night.

The disaster was started by the failure of the Eigiau Dam, a gravity dam owned by the Aluminium Corporation.

The water released from the reservoir flooded downstream, and overtopped the Coedty Dam, an embankment dam. This dam also subsequently failed, releasing the huge volume of water that flooded Dolgarrog.

The disaster at Dolgarrog led the British parliament to pass the Reservoirs ~ Safety Provisions ~ Act in 1930 that introduced laws on the safety of reservoirs. This has since been updated, and the current one is the Reservoirs Act, 1975.

In 2004 a £60,000 memorial trail was created, explaining the tragic story to walkers. The trail takes visitors to where the boulders from the damaged dam reside. The project was opened by the last survivor of the dam disaster, Fred Brown, who on that night lost his mother and his younger sister.

Click the bold type link below to see archive footage of the disaster

Film of Dolgarrog Disaster

 

 

 

 

Winged Wheel

In loving memory

of

Beatrice Blore Browne ( Bee )

Born September 26th 1887

Died November 23rd 1921

She feared naught but God

Beatrice ~ Bee ~ was born in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire and died in

Delamere, Penmaenmawr at the age of 34 years old.

Beatrice became a maverick of her time, when she drove a Singer 10hp car up the Old Road on the Great Orme circa 1911. It drew the attention of the press and onlookers, who wondered whether she would make it.

It may have been this, that drew the attention of George Wilkins Browne.
In December 1920, he became the first person to drive a car both up and down Snowdon. He drove up and down the railway track in an Angus Sanderson 14hp car. This event was filmed for cinema audiences. The ascent took 1 hour 22 mins, the descent 1 hour 5 mins.

The link below shows a Pathe Film of the event at the same time.
Driving up Snowdon in the 1920's  

In 1920, Beatrice Blore changed her name by deed poll and added the surname of Browne. Her death in November 1921 at the early age of 34, was due to cancer of the liver and breast, which she had been been suffering from for the previous two years.

Her unique gravestone has kept her memory alive, a reminder of a woman keen to push the boundaries of what it was considered acceptable for women to do.

Cemeteries of the World ~ Great Orme, Llandudno ~ Wales

The cemetery on the Great Orme, Llandudno, Wales and the adjoining churchyard of St. Tudno are well worthy of a mention in 'Cemeteries of the World', if for no other reason than 'Location, Location, Location'. 
And a few really interesting finds......

St.Tudno ~ pronounced Tidno ~ was a 6th century Celtic Monk, who climbed the Welsh, windswept headland of the Great Orme, to spread the message of Christianity and this place has been an active site of worship ever since.

Open air services are held on Sundays from the end of May until the end of September.

The outdoor pulpit stands on some very large plate tombstones, so often seen in the aisles of English Churches.

After discovering this place last year whilst on holiday, my parents said they knew

I would just love this cemetery and so we arranged a family day out 'graveyard stomping' ~ a term I have adopted from Corin White's blog Adventures of a Gravestomper. The already sloping and uneven ground of this cemetery, makes nagivating between the stones all the more challenging and so you really have to watch where you tread.We noticed what appeared to be quite a few other people looking around this interesting place ~ cemetery tourists ~ rather than the usual visitor, who comes to see a loved one.

I shall be posting some of my finds in the very near future, so watch this space.......