Llandudno Flashcards
What was the main industry until when
Copper mining, 1848 resort development proposed
Seaside resort features
Largest in Wales, 700m pier and promenade (longest in Wales), Ferris Wheel, Mad Cow Designs
What is the retail park called
Mostyn Champneys
County Conwy Borough Council 2020 tourism survey: what % overnight trip and employment increase, what % market 65+
2008-15 20% overnight trip
2012-17 15% employment
42% 65+ but must digitalise for Gen Z
What is the annual pageant
Miss Alice
What religious buildings
9 churches, convent, mission house, synagogue
What happens on Civic Sunday
Mayor’s wreath laying and parade
Who attends the Christmas parade
ACF Corps of Drums (military history), Venue Cymru pantomime cast, Llandudno town band, Bangor Batala Samba band (Brazilian), Llandudno Youth Music Theatre
What do Llandudno Youth for Christ do
Opened Garage Youth Centre, clubs, events, mentoring
What is Venue Cymru
£10.7m 2005 redevelopment, where Llandudno Youth Music Theatre practice, theatre, conference centre
What’s the Llandudno poem
By Kate Wise, overhyped, expensive, depressing
Llandudno Town Band
Inspired ‘The Band on the Prom’ book, have a Schools Partnership, work with council to provide promenade entertainment
How many art galleries
3 e.g. Mostyn Centre for Contemporary Arts, hosts North Wales Contemporary Craft Fair, recreated Castoro’s Trap a Zoid
Twinned with who
Wormhout since 1988, where a massacre of 100 soldiers occurred in WW2, now annual exchanges with memorials and football trips
What CBBC show did it feature on
2012 All Over the Place ‘Long Things in Llandudno’: UK’s longest aerial cabin lift, longest Welsh toboggan run, longest running Punch and Judy show
The Pier show
6 part series showing 2021 Summer life on Llandudno Pier
Great Orme Kashmiri goats
Overran Llandudno in COVID, went viral, controlled by herding and contraception (Guardian), Spectator poetry competition
Who is Alan Bates
Led successful High Court challenge after PO theft accusations, Mr Bates vs the Post Office show, www.postofficevictims.org.uk
Marle Hall
2021 plans for an immigrant shelter, backlash
How many hospitals and how many per GP
2021 census: 1, 400
How much crime/1000
2024 government: 42.5, 25% higher than rest of Wales, decreasing
What transport is available
Railway to Manchester, buses, Great Orme Tramway, Great Orme cable cars
2009 Welsh government report on migration
Perception outsiders take homes, little effect on social housing demand
Where
NW Wales, County Conwy, protrudes into Irish Sea
1931-8 First Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain
Large deciduous forest patches, heath and moorland surrounds, only coastal points so built up as to be agriculturally unproductive
Land use now
Built up town centre, heath and moorland surrounds, small deciduous forest patches around
Geology
Limestone bedrock, glacial till deposits
Great Orme
NE headland, 200m elevation, dry ski slope, lighthouse BnB, Bronze Age mine open to public
Little Orme
E Headland, public footpaths, 2 summits, parts are SSSIs, warden patrolled seabird sanctuary, occasional seals
North Shore beach
Voted UK’s most disappointing, 2014 rock armour, $12m needed to make sandy again
Pen-y-Dinas hillfort
Iron age ruins with rocking stone, St Tudno’s cradle
Llandudno town council actions
Refurbished benches, made bus shelters, net-zero by 2030, 2024-28 Inclusive Conwy Plan, Creative Conwy plan promotes arts education
North Wales Serious Violence Response Strategy
Preventative approach, better domestic and sexual violence response, work with vulnerable groups to prevent exploitation
2024 protests
20mph limit, Sustainable Farming Scheme
Voting
Labour constituency, then Plaid Cymru, conservatives visit
Home front museum
Living history of importance from troops and evacuees
St Tudno
Patron saint, founded Parish church
Old Royal Artillery Coastal Gunnery School
Monument, 2024 graffiti caused police investigation
Pier and Promenade
Pier Pavilion famous for concerts, Sir Malcolm Sergeant first appeared there, 1994 fire destroyed, widened so Isle of Man steamboats can dock
What % Christian
50%, higher than rest of Wales
What’s the main age group
50-74, higher 50+ than rest of Wales
Population
19700
What % disabled
25%, higher than rest of Wales
What % higher own houses outright or privately rent
10%
What % higher own 0 or 1 cars
10%
What % higher live in a one-person household
7%
What % less students
5%
What % higher part time work
5%
What % more speak, write and understand Welsh
5%
What are the main sectors
15% caring, leisure and service (higher) and professional (lower) sectors
National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification
Highest L4-6 (lower managerial and professional) at 20%. Higher L8-9 (small employers and own account owners). Lower L14-15 (unemployed and students)
