Photograph Album: Belonged to the Davies family of Treborth

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM: Belonged to the Davies family of Treborth. Images include Vehicle EY 6 at Ogwen in the snow [originally registered to John Robert Davies of Ceris. A Green Napier Double Phaeton 12c]; Dick fully armed with weapons from their sailing ships from 1850; Gwladys infront of a cart with goods being unloaded; a creeper in a rockery; tall trees with tops due to be cut off for the extenion of the motor shed; view of a vessel beached in the Strait; Gwladys and[?] her husband horse riding; John Roberts the new gardener building frames in the garden with tools in wheelbarrow; Dick gets measles at Eton and whooping cough so goes shooting with Nurse Gilly (Gwilliam) who is holding shot rabbits; the family in vehicles Ey 6 and EY 8 outside the West End Hotel, Pwllheli with W. Williams Fruiterer outside; Dick and his mother Gwladys on Abersoch beach; the car outside the Vaynol Hotel, Abersoch; the Bardsey Island Mail Packet Boat in Aberdaron Harbour about to depart; Gray, Dick, Gwladys and Nurse Gwilliam on the mainland with Bardsey behind; Tower Rock, Red Wharf Bay taken from Banzai; a fishing Smack off Benllech Bay; Dick with Moelfre in the background; Dick on Dulas Rock next to the Tower of Refuge with the vessel Banzai on the sea behind; passing a Holts China Liner on way to Holyhead [Alfred Holt & Co, Blue Funnel Line]; South Stack from the sea with Dick and Will Jones onboard; a schooner off Rhosneigr; Razorbill Cliffs off Puffin [no birds visible]; Trinity boat replacing old bouys at anchor off Puffin; Trying a vacuum cleaner from Evans and Roberts Ironmonger, Bangor; the launch Peregrine after being sold to Fred Schwabe with Poller motoring her down to her new home at Garth; sheepdog called Yamagata; a regatta on The Broads; some of the cricket team going bathing in their swimming costumes on a punt; the cricket team at Corton, Norwich, G. R. Colman, Captain; Gwladys and Violet keeping score; a wild fire being put out by Corton House brigade; Refreshment Contractors and Menai Bridge Band setting up at Ceris for the 'at home' for the race from Beaumaris to Caernarfon; Luncheon after the yachts had passed; pictures taken by Mrs Habershon; Cyril with The Brown Motorbike reg. no. AA 1348; Ian Maclaren, Mrs Watson and Mrs Lloyd George (and pet dog) being taken out on the Strait in Banzai; Black Welsh Highland Sheep being fed; at Ynys Gorad Goch with Mr Evan Hopkins fishing for herring; Gwladys painting the cheeks of the figurehead of the John Davies ship; a motor gymkhana at Treborth with the Clio Band playing. A large number of early vehicles on display including K 1269 and CC 85, spectators: Col and Miss Price, Dr Roberts, Rev. J. O. Thomas, Hugh Rathbone, Captain Langdon, Lady Flower, Dick, Leo, Arthur, Cyril, T.T., Judge Vincent Chadwick and Dr Grey Edwards, J. J. and Miss Petit; Pampas Grass on Ceris Drive; boys driving a car; the new memorial cross at Llanddwyn; Nellie, Grace and Ada Habershon having a picnic below Llanddwyn Lighthouse; practice launch of Moelfre Lifeboat; The Chadwick's Daimler EY 4 has a smash at the Bridge Toll Gate, towing the car; images of the ladies of the family; clearing branches using wooden wheelbarrows; watching a regatta from Ceris, Port Dinorwic One Design Yachts; the new motor shed being built with Menai Bridge in the background; [Some descriptions do not match the images, photos must have been replaced at some point].

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