This is really an open-air museum, meaning that it consists of historical buildings moved from other places to preserve them and present how they exemplify various periods of local history. The place was noisy and crawling with school groups, so I stayed only a a little over an hour.
This is a mid-1800s Century home:
This is a bed built into a cupboard. This kept it warmer than a bed in the open room.
I find ceilings and roof interesting, so always look at them. The one of this house has a woven base, and is topped by a straw roof on the outside. When this house was moved, the roof was destroyed, so the museum people found someone who could duplicate this two-level method for roofs.
And these are woven beehives. They look a lot like upside down baskets, but the bees liked them, and they gave the family some sweetening.
This is a toll booth for a road. Everyone paid a toll to use the road, except for the very lengthy and funny list on the next slide. I am guessing everyone was supposedly on their way to church!
This is another farmhouse, but built in early 1700s.
This ceiling/roof is a little rougher. The farmer used pieces of wood for the lower areas, but just random sticks for the higher parts where the straw rested.
Furnishings and the fireplace are a lot more basic.
This strange building was built for cockfighting!
And of course, the ceiling!
This was a store that sold ice cream and souvenirs.
And a mansion that I did not go into!
This was a row of houses that were decorated as various periods in Welsh history.
This one represents WW2.
And this one represents how people lived in the late1800s.
Noticed this building on my way out. It was a small chapel from 17th century.
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