Historic Pictures
Gallery One | Gallery Two | Gallery Three

Our holiday cottages are steeped in history as this is a collection of images spanning the last century at Plas Farm shows. Can you spot the different cottages as they were over a hundred years ago? Click on the images to enlarge them.

Image 1 by Craig Grannell

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Top Row - From Right to Left
1. David Bowen making silage in the 1960s using the buck-rake method. This old barn was situated on the river bank opposite Ty Cerbyd and Y Stabl holiday cottages.
2. This picture was taken from Blaenant farmhouse (on the mountain behind Plas Farm). It shows a cow that was very afraid of flies, hiding between the sheets on the washing line!
3. David and Tony Bowen messing around with an old Jaguar on the courtyard in front of the holiday cottages in the late 1950s.

Middle Row - From Right to Left
4. Billy and Benji playing in a pipe outside Ty Cerbyd (the same place that the horse drawn carriage is standing in Picture 1 of Gallery One)
5 . David and Tony Bowen messing around with an old Jaguar on the courtyard in front of the holiday cottages in the late 1950s.
6 . David Bowen ploughing the House Field at Plas Farm sometime in the 1960's. The picture is taken in the same field as Picture 4 in Gallery One - hay making at the turn of the twentieth century.

Back Row - Right to Left
7. Ty Cerbyd and Y Stabl in the 1960s.
8. A picnic on Mynnydd Marchywel overlooking the Swansea Valley.