View of Barmouth and the Bridge

I climbed up onto a little hill and stood on its highest rock to get the best view of the mouth of the estuary, the railway bridge and Barmouth on the other side. The land above Barmouth is called Dinas Oleu and on the 29th March 1895 it became the start of something big, something that has been growing ever since. It was the first plot of land donated by Mrs Fanny Talbot to Octavia Hill and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley, founders of The National Trust. That little promontory there is where it all started!
We have had our fair share of 'firsts' here in Wales - the WI was started in LlanfairPG on Anglesey, also in Anglesey the Landrover saw the light of day. On the 21 February 1804, the world's first ever railway journey ran 9 miles from the ironworks at Penydarren to the Merthyr-Cardiff Canal with great thanks to Richard Trevithick. The first million pound cheque ever written was at the Coal Exchange in Cardiff in 1901, I would say thanks to Lord Bute but it would be more accurate to thank the chap who gave him the order for all that coal! I could go on, but I won't - we Welsh people are renowned for our modesty!