Sir John Pender: The Cable King
How a Scottish merchant laid the Victorian internet — and quietly founded a Welsh seaside town in the process GENESIS…
Colwyn Bay People
Featuring notable people who have helped to shape the history of Colwyn Bay (and a few famous names who have a local connection) We’ll be adding more in the future so if you know of anyone let us know via our contact page.
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…
Miss Ethel May Hovey – digital exhibition
Ethel Hovey’s name should be synonymous with Colwyn Bay and the history of women’s contributions in Wales. Yet, despite her remarkable…
Colwyn Foulkes Architectural Practice
Key Dates in the Colwyn Foulkes Architectural Practice History
Sidney Colwyn Foulkes (1884-1971)
Sidney Colwyn Foulkes OBE, Hon.M.Arch (Liverpool), FRIBA, FILA., AMTPI. The information presented relates to the work of Sidney Colwyn Foulkes’…
Cindy Lowe
A prolific writer and local historian, Cindy Lowe published a novel based on her upbringing in Colwyn Bay just after…
Colwyn Bay Horticultural Society
Two Beginnings Colwyn Bay Horticultural Society prides itself on an unbroken existence since 1903. We know from the local papers…
Frederick Marquis, Lord Woolton
Frederick Marquis (Lord Woolton) was born in Salford and educated in Manchester where he became a businessman. In Liverpool he…
John Meerwald
John Meerwald was born in Colwyn Bay, his father died when he was four years old. When the war started…
Colwyn Bay Folk
Graham Roberts’ book on the history of Colwyn Bay recalls many of the people who have played a part in…
Helen Finch
A chance meeting on the tram brought her Mother's friend, a civil servant from the Ministry of Food tea department, to lodge at their house.
Joan Davies
Joan, one of four daughters, grew up on Lawson Road Colwyn Bay. She remembers that when her Mother took in…
Anne Windebank
Anne Windebank's family moved to Colwyn Bay when she was 6 years old, following her grandparents who had moved to the town previously.
Aline Davies
Aline Davies was born in Colwyn Bay. Her family had moved to the town in the 1920s when her grandfather was unwell.
Anne Jones
Anne Jones was born in Tan Lan, Old Colwyn, and has lived in the area all her life. First attending…