During my time at University College of North Wales, Bangor, I was very much involved as a volunteer at the National Trust's Industrial Railway Museum, Penrhyn Castle, working with that marvellous character, the late Iorwerth Watkin Jones MBE. This is our story of those years, 1966-77, prefaced by Iorwerth's own account of earlier times at the museum, 1960-1965, which he presented at his retirement "do" in November 2005..............
The promised further selection of pictures of our activities, in the musem and elsewhere, is added here (updated March 2012: "Demon" boiler) .......
Nov 2018: here are some stories about Iorwerth circa 1970 as recalled by Ian Jones......
February 2024:With all the recent changes at the Museum, its time for an update!......