Conwy Archive Service

Our service collects, preserves and makes accessible, records considered of permanent importance to the Conwy County Borough. These include Maps, Plans, Photographs, Documents and Digital Records highlighting our unique and varied heritage, from businesses to clubs, churches to schools, local government to the personal records of various residents

Conwy Archive Service, Conwy Culture Centre, Town Ditch Road, Conwy LL32 8NU

Opening Hours

Monday, Wednesday and Thursday: 09.30 – 12.30 and 13.30 – 16.30
Tuesday: 09.30 – 12.30 and 13.30 – 18.45

Items from Conwy Archive Service

  1. Lawyer’s draft for a case heard in the Star Chamber, when the Constable of Conwy Castle was accused of falsely imprisoning townsfolk

  2. Evacuee Register, Betws y Coed Urban District Council; Relatively few of these volumes have survived nationally

  3. Photograph of the Great Orme goats, who came down into Llandudno during the Covid-19 pandemic; history is the last decade as well as centuries ago

  4. Conwy Parish Register; this entry records the 1762 baptism of Robbin Conway “A black man belonging to Esq Holland”.

  5. Photograph of the sleeping shelters at Dr Garretts’ Home, Conwy; children were sent to the home from Manchester to convalesce on the North Wales coast