Wartski Fields - Holyhead Road, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales
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A pair of stone tablets hidden behind the fence on Holyhead Road in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales.
Waymark Code: WMDGP8
Location: North Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/13/2012
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This pair of stone tablets on a plinth are to be found behind the fence on Holyhead Road in Bangor.
There is a Welsh and English tablet.
The tablets read:
WARTSKI FIELDS
Donated to the City of Bangor
by Winifred Marie Wartski
in memory of her husband
ISIDORE WARTSKI
1879-1965
Mayor of Bangor 1939-41
The Earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof
MEYSYDD WARTSKI
Rhodd Winifred Marie Wartski
i Ddinas Bangor
i gofio ei gwr
ISIDORE WARTSKI
1879-1965
Maer Bangor 1939-41
Eiddo yr Arglwydd y ddear
a'i Chyflawnder
The tablets were erected to commemorate the donation of land on the shore of the Menai Strait known as Wartski Fields to the City of Bangor by the late wife of Isidore Wartski.
Isidore Wartski was of Polish/Jewish heritage and the son of Morris Wartski who had come to Bangor after fleeing Tsarist Russia. The family business flourished in Bangor. Unlike the rest of the family Isidore was succesful in the drapery business. He was a very popular Mayor of Bangor between 1939 and 1941.
The Wartski family business is now a world renowned company dealing in art, jewellery and antiques.
Type of Historic Marker: Stone tablets.
Historical Marker Issuing Authority: City of Bangor Council?
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