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A Bench With A Wonderful Story!

May 18, 2022

We would like to thank Rhisiart Owen and his lovely Wife for gifting us this original Colwyn Bay Pier Bench.


His father Rhys Owen who was the owner of the old indoor Market Hall on Princes' Drive bought a job lot of old decking in the late 1950s and the bench was thrown in.

However the young Rhisiart was on the Pier when a workman dropped his hammer in the sea, the next morning Rhisiart got up early and found the hammer under the Pier when the tide was out, and the worker had also gone to look for it, but it had been safely returned by Rhisiart!

The bench was placed inside the Market Hall outside the cafe on the right. I'm sure many of you have sat on it in the past.

It was salvaged after the fire and Rhisiart has had it in his garden in mid Wales ever since.

It needs restoration and Rhisiart very kindly offered it to the Pier Trust with the above provenance.

So it's come back home and hopefully one day will sit back in pride of place on the Pier.

He has also gifted us an Ariel photograph of Colwyn Bay showing the same benches and probability of location. We will share this at a later date.

Thank you Rhisiart for your very kind gesture and we promise to look after this marvellous piece of Colwyn Bay Pier heritage.


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