Amlwch (Anglesey)

Comprising photograph of port of Amlwch (page 3); signed list of participants (page 4); section diagram of rocks seen between Bull Bay and the hill west of Porthyrlwch (page 5); account of first day of expedition to Porthwen (page 7); section diagram of Porthwen west of Amlwch (page 8); photograph of coast north of Amlwch looking west (page 10); photograph of coast north east of Amlwch looking West (page 12); a poem, untitled by R. Hughes (page 15); a poem entitled 'The stone breaks the goat' with a sketch (page 16); account of excursion from Amlwch to Llanelian (page 18); photographs and sketches from Llanelian Church, near Amlwch including a seventeenth century money box (pages 21-22); geological section diagram of north of Porthcorig to south of Porthygwichiaid, south east of Amlwch (page 24); poem and sketch of party on a horse and cart (page 27); geological sketch of Cemaes to Llanbadrig (page 30); sketch of faulted rock, south end of Porth Badric (page 32); diagram section drawing across Parys mountain (page 36); geological section diagram southwest of Llannerch-y-medd (page 54); sketch of a geological feature (page 56); diagram sketch of rocks passed from Coedana by Llannerch-y-medd to Pwlloch (page 64); section diagram seen in quarry north of road in Penlon, 3 miles south east of Amlwch (page 66); complimentary concert programme poster held at Amlwch assembly rooms, and newspaper cuttings concerning concert (pages 70-71); itemised hotel bill (page and amended bill and notes (pages 74-76). Also including (at the front of the scrapbook) 'Fynydd Paris' by Hugh Hughes, n.d; and (at the back of the scrapbook) 'A Guide to Bull Bay, Amlwch and Neighbourhood' 1881; and photographs of coast looking west from a point near Porthyrhyd and a boulder lying on the beach below Mynachady on the northern west coast of Anglesey, 1898.

Participants included: Alfred O’Walker; Claude H. Milleth; Thomas McKenny Hughes; R. Hughes; Harold Temple Wills; Alfred Harker; Percy Hawkbridge; Albert Charles Seward; Michael C. Potter; Gerard W.Butler; Albert W. Day; and William T.A Gaussen. The group stayed at the Dinorben Arms. Misses Roberts was the proprietress.

An insert in the scrapbook suggests the following excursions took place:

• Saturday 29th March 1884 Porth Wen
• Monday 31st March: Llanelian
• Tuesday 1st April: Grafts Cummaes, Llanbedrig
• Wednesday 2nd April: Parys
• Thursday 3rd April: Llannerch-y-medd
• Friday 4th April: Llannerch-y-medd. Cae mawr paulon
• Saturday 5th April: Home

This volume is currently closed due to its extremely fragile nature.

The binding has almost completely broken, with the threat of pages becoming loose with handling. Photographs are fading and there is some discoloration.[Conservation postgraduate student assessment, 2011]