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Bryn-y-gwin, Dolgellau. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr.

John Thomas, ca. 1875.

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1 month ago on April 26, 2012 at 07:30am

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[Ashton family, Trefeglwys]. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr.

John Thomas, ca. 1885.

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1 month ago on April 18, 2012 at 06:56am

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[A house, Montgomery]. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr.

John Thomas, ca. 1885.

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3 months ago on February 07, 2012 at 04:32pm

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Princess Elizabeth’s little house / Y Bwthyn Bach. Source: Victoria and Albert Museum.

This dolls’ house was made in the 1930s by Lines Bros of Merton, Surrey. It is a model of the Welsh cottage style playhouse which was presented to Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II) on her sixth birthday in 1932 by the people of Wales. The original ‘Y Bwthyn Bach’ now stands in the grounds of Windsor Castle. The cottage was used to raise funds for children’s hospital charities before the Princess was allowed to play with it. It has four rooms including a kitchen and bathroom fully equipped with working appliances. Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Princess Margaret, loved to give parties in the cottage. Few children had such a large house to play in but this dolls’ house version cost 56/- (£2.80) which many parents could afford.

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3 months ago on January 31, 2012 at 04:34pm

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[Ashton family, Trefeglwys]. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr.

John Thomas, ca. 1885.

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4 months ago on January 18, 2012 at 09:30am

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Maesyronen chapel. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr. P.B. Abery, ca. 1910s.

Here’s some more information about the chapel—“one of Wales’s shrines of Nonconformity,” located near Hay-on-Wye, in Powys—from the Landmark Trust:

The chapel itself, converted from a barn in 1696, dates from the early vernacular days when any suitable building was made use of for enthusiastic worship. Although officially founded just after the Act of Toleration, it had probably been used for secret meetings before that, which explains its isolated position. Its simple layout and furniture, added as and when the congregation could afford it, follows the basic pattern that prevailed for the next two centuries. It has high box-pews and a higher pulpit, lit from behind by a window, and all of a plainness that fully conveys the essentials of this new and radical rural faith.