Abergele & Pensarn share the railway station shown above. The train is travelling from Llandudno to Chester. [The station opened 1848 the same year as Rhyl and on the same Chester-Holyhead line.]
Pensarn is a coastal suburb of Abergele. Pensarn beach is sometimes referred to as Abergele beach. Below: an early shot of the main road (looking westwards) followed by a seaside card postmarked 1920.
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The charm of the place was that it was a less busy than either Rhyl or Colwyn Bay; the downside was that it failed to develop much.
By the 1960s when the following cards were produced Pensarn was not much to write home about:
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Nestling on a hillside the far side of Abergele is Gwrych Castle, a Grade 1 Listed country house built in the 1800s.
Pictured below are Gwrych Castle's Italian marble stairs, followed by a popular feature decades ago: the miniature railway aka model railway.
The above card of the train ‘Belle of New York’ at Gwrych Castle Station came up for sale recently on Internet, hence the seller’s logo in the middle of the picture.
Gwrych Castle on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwrych_Castle
Gwrych Castle Preservation Trust: http://gwrychtrust.co.uk/
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The building is featured on the first of these two multiview cards of Sunray or Sun Ray Guest House, Abergele -
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The building is featured on the first of these two multiview cards of Sunray or Sun Ray Guest House, Abergele -
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