Historical Pictures

Model of a proposed village created by Clough Williams Ellis

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The rear garden of Castell Deudraeth taken circa 1890

Colourful Hydrangeas fill the flowerbed by the Hotel Portmeirion in the 1960s

A colour picture of Chantry cottace taken in 1939. Chantry was built for the Artist Augustus John in 1934

The Amis Reunis moored by the quayside, with the Hotel Portmeirion in the background

The Amis Reunis circa 1928

A picture of a member's pass to Portmeirion from 1932

Drawings of the Observatory Tower from 1935

Clough Williams Ellis's original drawings for Anchor dating from 1930

The entrance to Hotel Portmeirion circa 1930

Clough's drawings for the Hotel Portmeirion from 1930

Hotel Portmeirion sitting at the bottom of the hill taken circa 1980, prior to the fire of 1981

Hotel Portmeirion from Loggia, with the balcony of the Watch House in the foreground

A photograph of the newly opened Hotel Portmeirion taken some time after 1926 with children playing with rowing boats in the foreground.

Portmeirion - an impression circa 1930

This is the first survey and layout plan of what was then named Port Meirion carried out in 1925 soon after Clough had aquired the site. In the event this proposal was not used although some elements such as the group of buildings on the cliff top did make it off the drawing board.

Some guests enjoying afternoon tea on the Hotel Portmeirion lawn circa 1929

The Hotel Portmeirion in 1939 from a rare contemporary colour slide

The Hotel Portmeirion in the 1960s and the old fresh water swimming pool (very cold!)

A view of the Watch House from the hotel lawn taken around 1927 about a year after the hotel opened.