Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
‘Picturesque castle’ on show in long-unseen photographs
PHOTOS of Gwrych Castle before it fell into disrepair have been shared after being uncovered by archivists.
Images from the 1930s or the 1940s show a dining room and a reception area at the Grade I-listed I’m a Celeb setting.
The “well-known picturesque castle” was listed for auction in 1946.
Documents said it was built during the Regency period between 1812 and 1822 near Abergele, North Wales, by Lloyd Hesketh Bamford-hesketh, and had 26 bedrooms, nine reception rooms and seven bathrooms on a 1,400-acre estate.
It was eventually sold for £12,000 to a Mr J.R Rennie of Wrexham.
The castle was sold several times before it was asset-stripped in the 1990s.
It was bought by a trust in 2018 and re-opened after some restoration.