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Denbighshire / Re: Llansilin Denbighshire
« on: Thursday 15 July 21 20:41 BST (UK)  »
@Liverbirds

If you photographed the pics with your iPad, they are very likely already in jpeg (.jpg) format.

What I have found on this forum, is that there is a maximum file size you can upload for photos.

I could send you a message with my email address? They should send to me OK, and I'll see what I can do with them.

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Denbighshire / Re: Llansilin Denbighshire
« on: Wednesday 14 July 21 20:34 BST (UK)  »
Hi owltalk can you tell me please what year the photos you posted of the bakehouse in Llansillan were taken

I took them in 2008-9. The big house is Tyn Llan (or Tynllan). It was finished (refurbed) and sold in 2009. In their garden is a little stone house - a one-up/one-down. Everything else was knocked down. Behind the other buildings was an orchard and (as I found out) a treasure trove for bits of old pottery. I used to go looking every day when the workmen left.

The Old Hand Inn has always been one property, with a flat tacked on the side, but part of it might have temporarily been given another name. Working up the street... Tegfan was also a bake house. It's a tiny house dominated by a very large fireplace/oven in the middle of it. Gwynfa, and the one next to it, were two houses, now joined.

London House - the front fell off when a resident overdid it trying to change the window openings. The cheap brick wasn't a popular choice.

Gwalia was two tiny cottages, now one. At one point it was another bakehouse/cookhouse for the White Lion Inn (now The Old White Lion), but the White Lion had two ranges and a bread oven of its own too. The Old White Lion had a brief period of being named Glyndwr.

Darwin Cottage was called Darwen Cottage, but an owner changed it in the early 2000s.

Preswylfa is next, followed by The Old Post Office.

I can do the other side of the street, if you like.  :D

Talking of the other buildings at Tynllan, the smaller buildings didn't really look habitable. There was a rough driveway in between the buildings. I think the little one-up/one-down house had a shed tagged on the back. Behind it was another shed/building. Across the drive was the 'bakehouse' and the orchard.

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Denbighshire / Re: Llansilin Denbighshire
« on: Friday 02 July 21 19:53 BST (UK)  »
If the Bake House the one described above, here it is, marked with the yellow line.


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Denbighshire / Re: Llansilin Denbighshire
« on: Saturday 03 January 15 20:27 GMT (UK)  »
Ah... THAT bakehouse. :) There have been quite a few here over the years, even one over in Moelfre that is part Elizabethan. The local history people are very on-the-ball, and there's a good village archive of info. Glad you found what you were looking for.

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Denbighshire / Re: Llansilin Denbighshire
« on: Friday 02 January 15 22:33 GMT (UK)  »
I live in Llansilin. The Hand Inn is now The Old Hand Inn. Next to it is Tegfan, which I have been told was the bakehouse. The bread oven still exists. The White Lion, now The Old White Lion, has a driveway. On the other side of the driveway is Gwalia, which at some point was a cookhouse of sorts for The White Lion (so possibly also a bakehouse), although the White Lion did have a bread oven (now gone) and at least two ranges for other cooking. Gwalia is comprised to two small cottages joined together.

Nearly all the houses along that stretch of road were Inns, shops or businesses. One house looks newer (London House - the front fell off in the 1980s and was put back in brick). Otherwise all properties along here date back to 1750 or well before that) and most haven't changed much at all.

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