Dolgarrog

The name Dolgarrog derives from Welsh dôl (water-meadow) and carrog (torrent) and reflects the fact that a number of streams descend steeply to the flatter ground beside the river Conwy in this locality.

Nico Ifan then came along to gloat over the dead dragon and cursed and kicked the corpse, whereupon the poisoned barbed wing of the Garrog pierced his leg – thus fulfilling the death warning in his dream.

In the 1350s the Black Death took a heavy toll in the lower Conwy Valley, particularly among the bond tenants regulated by the King's officers from Aberconwy, Edward I's new English borough.

A man privy to Guy Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot is said to have lived in the house Ardda'r Myneich (Monks Hill), whose ruins lie in the fields above the road between Porthllwyd and Dolgarrog bridges.

Dr Thomas Williams (1550–1622), rector of St Peter's Church, Llanbedr-y-Cennin, was charged with having papist sympathies.

[5] Dolgarrog's industrialisation began in the 18th century with a flour mill on the Porth Llwyd river to crush corn for local farmers.

When the first sod was cut for the Conway and Llanrwst Railway track on 25 August 1860, on Lord Newborough's land at Abbey, Dolgarrog, it was John Williams who supplied the sleepers.

Under the management of Henry Joseph Jack, the Aluminium Corporation of Dolgarrog acquired a controlling interest in the North Wales Power & Traction Company in 1918.

[6] Production thereafter concentrated upon re-melted, rolled and specialist goods including patterned sheet, cookware and advanced alloys.

In May 1908 the Welsh Coast Pioneer and Review reported their intentions: The report that the Aluminium Corporation, Ltd., contemplate erecting numerous semi-detached houses for their employees, at Dolgarrog, of the character of a "Garden City" is exciting considerable interest, and the completion of the plans of the first portion of the scheme, by Mr A. Morley Jonee, architect, Llanrwst, are looked forward to.

The Corporation will employ from 400 to 500 men, and these, with their families, will dwell in the "Garden City", giving a considerable impetus to the local trades, which will naturally benefit by the undertaking.

The project was opened by the last survivor of the dam disaster, Fred Brown, who on that night lost his mother and his younger sister.

The incline was upgraded (and the lower section re-aligned), enabling steam engines to reach the starting point of the tramway, near Coedty reservoir.

From here the original quarry tramway continued across the marshland to the edge of the River Conwy at Porth Llwyd wharf.

Commenced in 2001, Garden Art[17] is a local business that brings together both tasteful and unusual antique and contemporary garden statuary, tubs, architectural antiques and specimen plants, all of which are displayed within a 10-acre (40,000 m2) site in the natural beauty of the Snowdonia National Park in Wales.

As well as selling all kinds of sculptures, it also claims to have the "World's Largest Hedge Maze" covering over 2 acres (8,100 m2) of land.

The Coed Dolgarrog National Nature Reserve is a wooded area consisting of Beech and Alder woodland which is rare in North Wales.

[18] Ysgol Gynradd Dyffryn yr Enfys provides Welsh-medium primary education to the village and the surrounding area.

The shops at Dolgarrog
Dolgarrog Halt, on the Conwy Valley line, located across the river
Dolgarrog power station, located next to the Aluminium Works
The incline up to the Eigiau Tramway, adjacent to the pipeline
An engine being taken up the Dolgarrog incline to the Eigiau Tramway. Some of this timberwork still exists today.
A slate plaque marking the beginning of the memorial walk
The breach in Llyn Eigiau dam, showing the gully cut by the flood water. (A second, different breach was later deliberately made in the main wall to prevent it happening again.)
Officials, journalists and survivors mingle on the street in the aftermath of the disaster. The man with the child in his arms, Edward Holland Roberts, was a butcher whose shop was washed away in the flood.