Snowdonia Park Motel, Nr Bethesda 1965
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This authentic 1960s colour photograph, captured in 1965, documents the newly opened Snowdonia Park Motel located in the Nant Ffrancon Valley near Bethesda, Gwynedd. The archival image captures the motel during its inaugural year, holding the distinction of being the first such establishment built within the boundaries of the Snowdonia National Park. The architecture features a long, single-storey terrace of guest rooms with light green rendered walls, multi-pane windows, and traditional Welsh purple slate roofs. Parked prominently in the foreground is a white Sunbeam Rapier with a red roof, alongside a black Ford Zodiac further down the row. The background showcases the steep, verdant slopes of the Carneddau mountains, emphasizing the motel’s dramatic alpine setting. This factual record preserves the early days of modern motor-tourism in North Wales at a site that has since evolved into the Snowdonia Mountain Lodge.
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