You are probably right about the shop aspect of the Swan and it may have just been a "picking up point" for small items like newspapers etc but it's the Post Office aspect that I've a very vague memory of. I don't think that it was ever more than a sub Post Office but again I'll ask my friend and hope he can help.
In Mr Evans' day he ran a proper shop in the village and deliveries were made by his horse and cart. I suppose that with people having cars and supermarkets opening, a shop in the village became unsustainable and Glanwydden followed a similar fate as Pydew.
I would imagine that the Swan as a pub would have been in the 19th century rather than the 20th but again I don't know for certain.
That's pretty much the way I'm thinking. What was the shop in Glanwydden? I've some vague notion of a shop and bakery on the opposite side of the road and to the Queens Head and further up towards the windmill and seem to pulling a name Pickering but I'm not sure if I'm inventing this.
Supermarkets btw. I think my mother used Maypole??? in Llandudno and later, Deganwy Kwick Save.
[/quote]Thanks again for posting those photos, the school and Chapel were demolished and new properties built in their place and one where the school was is up for sale and has been for a number of years now.
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Looking back in terms of the 60s, it does seem a little odd the chapel going. When we went to church, it was the little C of E one near the village hall but as far as I remember, for want of a better term and I'm not sure how to put this as I don't mean it an any way that might upset anyone but the "old Welsh village" was quite strongly Welsh Chapel.
I don't know when the school closed but it was Glanwydden school and then John Bright for most of us. I say most as there was some (I think council) division. I knew a couple of people who went some primary school in the Junction and then Aberconwy.