Menai Strait and Menai Bridge from Bangor side

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Bangor side! ...

George Hotel on the Straits to the background

Appears to be what became 55 Belmont Road to the far right (just in view).

The house in front of the George is Belmont Cottage

.. and the house a bit further down was Bryn Tawel.

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Belmont Cottage was later/also known as Glyn Cottage (part of the Glyn Estate). 55 Belmont Road went by the name of Penlan.

Penlan was the home of the poet Alun Llywelyn Williams; he was also a tutor at the University Welsh Department I believe; he had two daughters Eryl and Luned.  It was a very nice house

The Cottage was a single dwelling by the 40s/50s before that images show two front door accesses

The field the photographer was in: behind him/her would have been Eithinog Farm.

(Thanks Llewelyn Thomas)

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Alun Llewelyn-Williams

Born in Cardiff in 1913 the son of a doctor, and was educated at University College, Cardiff, where he graduated in Welsh and History.

After a period of being a publisher and organizer of radio talks with the BBC, he was appointed to the staff of the National Library in 1936.

During World War II he served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers, receiving serious wounds in battle in the Ardennes forests.

In 1948 he entered the University College of North Wales, Bangor, as Director of External Studies and held a chair there from 1975 until his retirement.

His first book, Poems 1934-42 (1944), reflects his experiences of being a soldier, but refers also, in a way quite personal, economic and social crisis to the Depression years

Alun Llewelyn-Williams died in Bangor in 1988.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/deddwyrain/enwogion/llen/pages/alun_llywelyn_williams.shtml

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