Llandudno

Question 1

What was the main industry until when

Answer 1

Copper mining, 1848 resort development proposed

Question 2

Seaside resort features

Answer 2

Largest in Wales, 700m pier and promenade (longest in Wales), Ferris Wheel, Mad Cow Designs

Question 3

What is the retail park called

Answer 3

Mostyn Champneys

Question 4

County Conwy Borough Council 2020 tourism survey: what % overnight trip and employment increase, what % market 65+

Answer 4

2008-15 20% overnight trip
2012-17 15% employment
42% 65+ but must digitalise for Gen Z

Question 5

What is the annual pageant

Answer 5

Miss Alice

Question 6

What religious buildings

Answer 6

9 churches, convent, mission house, synagogue

Question 7

What happens on Civic Sunday

Answer 7

Mayor’s wreath laying and parade

Question 8

Who attends the Christmas parade

Answer 8

ACF Corps of Drums (military history), Venue Cymru pantomime cast, Llandudno town band, Bangor Batala Samba band (Brazilian), Llandudno Youth Music Theatre

Question 9

What do Llandudno Youth for Christ do

Answer 9

Opened Garage Youth Centre, clubs, events, mentoring

Question 10

What is Venue Cymru

Answer 10

£10.7m 2005 redevelopment, where Llandudno Youth Music Theatre practice, theatre, conference centre

Question 11

What’s the Llandudno poem

Answer 11

By Kate Wise, overhyped, expensive, depressing

Question 12

Llandudno Town Band

Answer 12

Inspired ‘The Band on the Prom’ book, have a Schools Partnership, work with council to provide promenade entertainment

Question 13

How many art galleries

Answer 13

3 e.g. Mostyn Centre for Contemporary Arts, hosts North Wales Contemporary Craft Fair, recreated Castoro’s Trap a Zoid

Question 14

Twinned with who

Answer 14

Wormhout since 1988, where a massacre of 100 soldiers occurred in WW2, now annual exchanges with memorials and football trips

Question 15

What CBBC show did it feature on

Answer 15

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

Question 16

The Pier show

Answer 16

6 part series showing 2021 Summer life on Llandudno Pier

Question 17

Great Orme Kashmiri goats

Answer 17

Overran Llandudno in COVID, went viral, controlled by herding and contraception (Guardian), Spectator poetry competition

Question 18

Who is Alan Bates

Answer 18

Led successful High Court challenge after PO theft accusations, Mr Bates vs the Post Office show, www.postofficevictims.org.uk

Question 19

Marle Hall

Answer 19

2021 plans for an immigrant shelter, backlash

Question 20

How many hospitals and how many per GP

Answer 20

2021 census: 1, 400

Question 20

How much crime/1000

Answer 20

2024 government: 42.5, 25% higher than rest of Wales, decreasing

Question 21

What transport is available

Answer 21

Railway to Manchester, buses, Great Orme Tramway, Great Orme cable cars

Question 22

2009 Welsh government report on migration

Answer 22

Perception outsiders take homes, little effect on social housing demand

Question 23

Where

Answer 23

NW Wales, County Conwy, protrudes into Irish Sea

Question 24

1931-8 First Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain

Answer 24

Large deciduous forest patches, heath and moorland surrounds, only coastal points so built up as to be agriculturally unproductive

Question 25

Land use now

Answer 25

Built up town centre, heath and moorland surrounds, small deciduous forest patches around

Question 26

Geology

Answer 26

Limestone bedrock, glacial till deposits

Question 27

Great Orme

Answer 27

NE headland, 200m elevation, dry ski slope, lighthouse BnB, Bronze Age mine open to public

Question 28

Little Orme

Answer 28

E Headland, public footpaths, 2 summits, parts are SSSIs, warden patrolled seabird sanctuary, occasional seals

Question 29

North Shore beach

Answer 29

Voted UK's most disappointing, 2014 rock armour, $12m needed to make sandy again

Question 30

Pen-y-Dinas hillfort

Answer 30

Iron age ruins with rocking stone, St Tudno's cradle

Question 31

Llandudno town council actions

Answer 31

Refurbished benches, made bus shelters, net-zero by 2030, 2024-28 Inclusive Conwy Plan, Creative Conwy plan promotes arts education

Question 32

North Wales Serious Violence Response Strategy

Answer 32

Preventative approach, better domestic and sexual violence response, work with vulnerable groups to prevent exploitation

Question 33

2024 protests

Answer 33

20mph limit, Sustainable Farming Scheme

Question 34

Voting

Answer 34

Labour constituency, then Plaid Cymru, conservatives visit

Question 35

Home front museum

Answer 35

Living history of importance from troops and evacuees

Question 36

St Tudno

Answer 36

Patron saint, founded Parish church

Question 37

Old Royal Artillery Coastal Gunnery School

Answer 37

Monument, 2024 graffiti caused police investigation

Question 38

Pier and Promenade

Answer 38

Pier Pavilion famous for concerts, Sir Malcolm Sergeant first appeared there, 1994 fire destroyed, widened so Isle of Man steamboats can dock

Question 39

What % Christian

Answer 39

50%, higher than rest of Wales

Question 40

What's the main age group

Answer 40

50-74, higher 50+ than rest of Wales

Question 41

Population

Answer 41

19700

Question 42

What % disabled

Answer 42

25%, higher than rest of Wales

Question 43

What % higher own houses outright or privately rent

Answer 43

10%

Question 44

What % higher own 0 or 1 cars

Answer 44

10%

Question 45

What % higher live in a one-person household

Answer 45

7%

Question 46

What % less students

Answer 46

5%

Question 47

What % higher part time work

Answer 47

5%

Question 48

What % more speak, write and understand Welsh

Answer 48

5%

Question 49

What are the main sectors

Answer 49

15% caring, leisure and service (higher) and professional (lower) sectors

Question 50

National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification

Answer 50

Highest L4-6 (lower managerial and professional) at 20%. Higher L8-9 (small employers and own account owners). Lower L14-15 (unemployed and students)