My
memories of Dolgellau go quite a while back. We moved there around
1956, to a house called "Dolronwy". I went to school
and had Mr. H.G. Williams for class teacher, I never did learn
the language.
The town was nice and small and each morning we woke up to the nice smell of baking as our house was beside a small bakery, so each morning I would go and pick up fresh bread.
The walks around the area were great and on Saturdays we hung out of the back window to watch the football match and went to the Pughs sweetshop.
Quite a lot of people came to visit us, either to order a "little miss dress" (mum called them) that she used to sew, or to have a piano lesson (as she also taught).
After a while we mooved up to 3 Mount Pleasant and a while later my brother moved back from Manchester and bought himself a studio for painting. I often went to "The Studio" to watch him paint. Sometimes you could see him on the street with his easel and paints as he was always doing sketches.
After a while my brother came over from Sweden and asked Mum to let me go there to be a nanny, so in 1961 I left for Stockholm. The last time I came back to Dolgellau was in 1963. We did come over to Manchester a few years back, but we only passed close by, as it was in the middle of the night.
I often remember the town and would like to come back, if not next year, then the next. Since we got a computer a while back, I often visit the Dolgellau website and read about it. After I moved to Sweden my mum and brother lived here a while, but then moved to Ireland.
If anybody remembers me or my family, it would be nice to hear from you and hear about the changes in Dolgellau.
Kind Regards,
Felicity Enblom (formerly Montague)
See some of my photos of Dolgellau
Email: felicity.enblom@bredband.net