Sian and I are coming to the end of an extremely productive development week here in Bermo and ‘For, Mountain, Sand & Sea’ is emerging! I shall reveal more in a summary blog of our excursion next week. In the mean time here’s a rather wonderful report taken from the Caernarvon and Denbigh Herald in 1871 (not the Barmouth Advertiser as stated yesterday).

‘BARMOUTH. EXCURSION. – On Saturday last from 900 to 1000 excursionists were brought here from Manchester, per the Great Western Railway. The day proving fine, all had an opportunity of making the best of time allowed them. Most of the excursionists chose to ramble up the mountains, and enjoyed themselves by gathering some of our beautiful wild mountain flowers; the ladies decorated their bonnets with them, and the gentlemen their hates, which had a very pretty effect, and at a distance might have been taken for a lot of moving flower pots….These excursionists were very orderly and well-behaved
(C.&D.H.June 1, 1872)