While enjoying the summer holiday we popped into the Llandudno museum. It's a small affair with lots packed in , taking you through the story of the town and the local history society. The layout was a little muddled in my opinion but I know they are currently looking in to redesigning it all.
As a wargamer the following things caught my eye.
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I love landscapes showing how it all used to look. This is Llandudno 13000 years ago |
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Llandudno 5000 years ago. Looking more familiar now. |
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I love this map of the area in the 13th century as I didn't realise how much the sea had risen. Most of the green in the centre of the map are now under water including a palace of a Welsh prince. I say palace think hall |
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Hill fort by the sea. I see a game in this |
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Ideas to recreate Deganwy castle |
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Revolting villagers beating up the landlady and agent. |
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Jump in time to the steamers that used to dock at the end of the pier. This gives me a Very British Civil War idea of a invaders or reinforcements landing at the end of the pier |
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Beach by pier |
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Tram |
My favourite section was the WW1 and WW2 room which took you through a time line events during the wars. 7000 were billeted in Llandudno in WW1 and in WW2 government departments moved there namely the tax office, as did a coastal artillery school commanding the Menai Straits with too my surprise a radar station.
There was no layout of the artillery school, but I know the area and they were on the Great Orme. The guns were on top off a cliff, behind them another sharp slope/cliff was the observation building and above on the top was a converted golf club with the radar station. Gives me ideas for Guns of Navarone style game with either Germans (naturally to neutralise them, so U-Boats can sink either the convoys that gathered off the coast or the mulberry harbours built at the mouth of the Conwy estuary) or a Very British Civil War theme
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Home Guard uniform. Llandudno was in the county of Caernarfon in WW2 |
A good little museum, where I learnt things I didn't know which is the point really. I'm looking forward to seeing how they remodel it as the town and area has so much history.