Grounds for Hope: Colwyn Bay Football Club Town and People 1881 to 2025
Extensively researched and published by Arthur Holden with additional material by Aled Williams. Colwyn Bay Football Club is one of…
Book Shelf
Colwyn Bay Library staff have been compiling a list of books and other resources about the history of Colwyn Bay for this section of the site. All are available for you to view at the library.
The library also holds a collection of local ephemera – items such as old theatre programmes and other historic printed items.
Colwyn Bay Ministry of Food Heritage Booklet
To mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day on May 8th, 2025 Colwyn Bay Heritage Group, with generous funding from…
Colwyn Bay: The Prestige Series
Written by Michael Yelton, this is a guide to the bus services run by Colwyn Borough Council. The book details…
Tales Out of School ebook
Tales Out of School is a collection of memories of schooldays, along with photographs and is available to download here…
A-Z of Colwyn Bay
A new town established in the 1800s, Colwyn Bay thrived with the coming of the railway, growing into one of…
Colwyn Bay at War
Colwyn Bay lies in a wonderful spot on the sunny coast of North Wales. The Ministry of Food relocated to…
To Where We Once Belonged: Colwyn Bay Revisited
This novel is inspired by the reality of true events in a small coastal town during the Second World War,…
Pier Memories ebook
The Pier Memories ebook is available to download free here: Colwyn Bay Memories THE PIER Heritage Group member and local…
Colwyn Bay History Tour
From Rhos-on-Sea to Old Colwyn, Graham Roberts takes us on a guided tour of Colwyn Bay through the years.
Colwyn Bay Folk
Graham Roberts’ book on the history of Colwyn Bay recalls many of the people who have played a part in…
Street Directories
Colwyn Bay Library has a selection of local directories which can be of interest to local and family historians.
Colwyn Bay in the 1950s
Like every other town in Great Britain, Colwyn Bay spent the 1950s shaking off the effects and austerity that were…
Skyman Taff’s Halcyon Days
Ray Hughes grew up in the nineteen forties and fifties on a council estate in Mochdre.
Scandal at Congo House
Victorian Wales was both enchanted and enraged by William Hughes’ controversial scheme for the importation of black boys and girls…
Colwyn Bay: its history across the years
The publishing of this book by Landmark Publishing in 2001 brought together two previously published volumes on the history of Colwyn Bay.