National Library of Wales Archives and Manuscripts

[Tanat Valley Light Railway - cutting the sod #1]

JPJ002a.
Item
[1899].

Part of Casgliad John Peris Jones Collection

Crowds watching the sod-cutting ceremony at Pontywaen by the Countess of Powis. Note that JPJ003 and JPJ004 are better quality images of the same event. The Montgomery County Times and Shropshire and Mid-Wales Advertiser dated 16th September 1899 gives an account of the proceedings.

John Peris Jones

[Street scene, unidentified location]

JPJ004b.
Item
[c.1905].

Part of Casgliad John Peris Jones Collection

View of a building on a street corner. The stone-built building incorporates a shop

John Peris Jones

The Vicarage, Llanyblodwel.

JPJ005a.
Item
[c.1900].

Part of Casgliad John Peris Jones Collection

View of an ivy-clad large house. Above one arched doorway is a partially obscured inscription "In the year of our ..." In the centre of the picture is the figure of the vicar, identifiable by his collar.

John Peris Jones

Old Market Hall, Llanrhaiadr-ym-Mochnant, demolished 1901.

JPJ006.
Item
[ca.1900]

Part of Casgliad John Peris Jones Collection

View of a very dilapidated Market Hall. An ironmongers shop is to be seen on the right of the photo. Numerous people are watching the activities of the photographer. A doorway in the Market Hall, possibly leading to the first floor has a sign on the door "T J Lloyd Printer and..."

John Peris Jones

Llanrhaiadr looking North.

JPJ008.
Item
[c.1900].

Part of Casgliad John Peris Jones Collection

A view of the village of Llanrhaiadr-ym-Mochnant with the churchyard and church in the middle distance and a hill in the distance behind.

John Peris Jones

Glan-yr-afon Hall, Llanyblodwel.

JPJ009.
Item
[c.1905]

Part of Casgliad John Peris Jones Collection

Glan-yr-afon Hall photographed from the road in front of the house.

John Peris Jones

Arllenfawr.

JPJ012.
Item
[c.1905].

Part of Casgliad John Peris Jones Collection

Photograph of the exterior of a stone built house with three dormer windows at the front. Arllen Fawr is a grade II listed building dating back to the 1500s.

John Peris Jones

Penllan, Llanrhaiadr.

JPJ012a.
Item
[c.1905].

Part of Casgliad John Peris Jones Collection

View taken from a high viewpoint, possibly the church tower showing part of the village of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant

John Peris Jones

Llansilin Road, General View.

JPJ016.
Item
[c.1905].

Part of Casgliad John Peris Jones Collection

A rural landscape traversed by a railway line running from the bottom right of the photo to Llansilin Road railway station in the upper left.

John Peris Jones

Sir Watkins turnout at the Wynnstay, Llanfyllin

JPJ017.
Item
[c.1900].

Part of Casgliad John Peris Jones Collection

Numerous onlookers and various horse drawn carriages outside the Wynnstay Hotel, High Street, Llanfyllin. The streets are adorned with Union Jack flags and bunting. The premises have since been re-named The Cain Valley Hotel.

John Peris Jones

Park Uchaf Filter Beds.

JPJ018.
Item
[c.1905].

Part of Casgliad John Peris Jones Collection

Photograph of two large square filter beds with three men in attendance.

John Peris Jones

Llanrhaiadr Church from Wynnstay, Old Neg.

JPJ021.
Item
[c.1905].

Part of Casgliad John Peris Jones Collection

A view of the church taken from the Wynnstay Arms. This appears to be a copy photograph of an original by John Thomas, 47 Everton Road, Liverpool. The corresponding negative in the John Thomas Collection is jti003 "Llanrhaiadr Church from Hotel Window."

John Peris Jones

The Avenue, Llangedwyn.

JPJ026.
Item
[c.1905]

Part of Casgliad John Peris Jones Collection

A portrait format view through the entrance to Llangedwyn Hall, a portion of which can be seen in the distance. Enclosure reads "The Avenue, Llangedwyn, Upright, New one."

John Peris Jones