Former Weighbridge Clerk's Office - Paradise Road, Penmaenmawr, Conwy, Wales - UK Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

This small stone building located close to the railway station on Paradise Road is the former weighbridge clerk's office.

It would have been from here that the clerk would have organised the weighing of carts laden with coal which had just arrived by rail before they continued to their various destinations.

The small metal sign is bi-lingual, the text reads:

CYN SWYDDFA CLERC
Y BONT BWYSO CYHOEDDUS
ADEILADWYD YR ADEILIAD HON YN 1900
GAN CYNGOR ARDAL DINESIG PENMAENMAWR FEL SWYDDFA
I'R PONT PWYSO CYHOEDDUS A SAFAI AR Y FFORDD GERLLAW.
YMA. AR ÔL GADAEL IARD Y RHEILFFORDD
R'OEDD RHAID PWYSO TROLIAU LLAN GLO
A DYNWYD GAN CEFFYLAU CYN DRINGO Y FFYRDD
SERTH I'R DREF.

FORMER WEIGHBRIDGE
CLERK'S OFFICE
THIS BUILDING WAS ERECTED IN 1900
BY PENMAENMAWR URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL
AS AN OFFICE FOR THE PUBLIC WEIGHBRIDGE
SITUATED ON THE ROAD NEARBY.
LOADED HORSE DRAWN CARTS
AFTER LEAVING THE RAILWAY YARD
AND BEFORE CLIMBING THE STEEP ROADS TO THE TOWN
HAD TO BE WEIGHED HERE.

Type of Historic Marker: Metal plaque. Give your Rating: Historical Marker Issuing Authority: Not listed Age/Event Date: Not listed Related Website: Not listed

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