The View From Here: Castle Town Where the People Are King ; in Our Series Visiting 50 Communities, Ian Parri Drops in On Caernarfon

Daily PostMarch 08, 2005

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THE gleaming new Galeri arts centre glistens in the March sunshine, a symbol of revival as the old Victoria Dock shrugs off its industrial past and looks to a bright new future as a leisure attraction.

Although strangely lumbered with a mis-spelt English name, in a town like Caernarfon where 90pc have Welsh as their first language, backers hope that the Galeri proves to be the catalyst that ignites the Dock's wholescale development.

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The View From Here: Castle Town Where the People Are King ; in Our Series Visiting 50 Communities, Ian Parri Drops in On Caernarfon

Yet immediately next door sits the skull-like frontage of the sadly empty shell of a former printing works, once a hive of activity where the religious journal Y Goleuad used to roll off the presses in its thousands.

There was talk of turning the place into a printing museum, very apt in a t...

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