Green Bank

[Admin (Matt)]

Glan Menai is a terraced house at the end of a small terrace of 4 or maybe 5 houses very close to Garth Jetty. I think the terrace might be known as Green Bank. The terrace can be seen in the background of an old photo of Garth Jetty on this site. Glan Menai is the furthest house in the terrace. Does anyone know I how can find out whose land the terrace was built on, who built it and when.

Posted by Eryl 11/11/2008 0045

[Admin (Matt)]

The Garth Jetty as referenced above...plus 3 more historic images here ... http://www.bangorcivicsociety.org.uk/pages/hpi/results.html?d=green 

A nice image  of it today:

The Ancient Brit
http://flickr.com/photos/theancientbrit/2473549732/sizes/l/

Dating the Terrace:
Deeds and Estate papers and rent books in the archives can be useful. It might predate OS maps so looking at the ones we have access to here it wasn't there in the 1851 tithe map (doesn't appear in the 1851 census either), my 1890 paper map doesn't cover the area


It does appear in 1905.

The 1874 Worrall Directory shows that Dorothy Roberts ran a lodging house at the address of number 4 so it might be worth looking though the directories to pick out more references.

[Admin (Matt)]

http://www.bangorcivicsociety.org.uk/pages/hisso/ow7.htm puts the bishop as the land owner 1840

[Admin (Matt)]

Gwynedd Archives, Caernarfon
XS/1077/11/231  
Professor Taylor-Jones, Green Bank, Garth, Bangor, Professor of Physics at Bangor University.

Bodiwan Papers
Archives Department of the University of Wales Bangor
Items 10552-11502 were presented to the University of Wales Bangor by Mr and Mrs Thomas ap Rhys of Green Bank, Bangor. http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/patagonia-mdjb.html