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Jazzy Princess

Ffestiniog Railway’s first steam locomotive to pull passenger trains was this Princess, who was constructed in 1863 by George England & Co.in London.  As time passed, both needs and technology grew and […]

Queen Victoria’s Holiday Spot

Built in 1790 or thereabouts, Pierremont Hall was built to the designs of Samuel Pepys Cockerell, great-grand-nephew of Samuel Pepys the Diarist.  In 1827, the widowed Duchess of Kent and her little […]

King Dumplings Available

  A colourful note: from a colour psychology viewpoint, green brings equilibrium, it balances the head with the heart; it is the colour of growth, spring and renewal; it renews and restores depleted energy.  And […]

Golden Face

  A colourful note: goldenrod colour is named after the goldenrod flowers, a plant that has had a variety of health uses.  In many areas it has acted as a traditional […]

Golden Morning

A colourful note: use of the word gold is sometimes replaced with golden, to help distinguish from metallic gold.  The first recorded use of golden as a colour name in English was […]