I’ve had some difficult picture restorations in my time but this faded postcard of St. Beuno’s College took the biscuit. You are looking at the improved version!St. Beuno’s is a Jesuit Spirituality Centre located between Rhuallt and Tremeirchion near St. Asaph and is a well known place of retreat – and I’m on the verge of needing one.
The card is undated but could be up to 100 years old. Just inside the gates and on the left is a cross on a plinth at the top of a short flight of steps. This is the Tremeirchion Rood of Grace; it stood there from 1862 to 2002 and then was returned to Tremeirchion graveyard whence it came.
The information comes from the St. Beuno web site:
http://www.beunos.com/history.htm
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THU 18th JUN 2015 UPDATE: Just arrived at Jones Towers is
this image of St. Beuno’s in snow. It is a card postmarked 1919:
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