Most adults and many older children will have heard the wonderful story of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, which details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures, the tall tale is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. However, not many people realise that the main female character named Alice, was based on a real lady named Alice Pleasance Hargreaves (née Liddell) who was good friends with the famous Author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, (better known as Lewis Carroll). Having spent many happy years staying at their holiday home Penmorfa, which later became the Gogarth Abbey Hotel, on the West Shore of Llandudno in North Wales, Alice’s adventures with her family and friends there were believed to have inspired “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. A major seaside resort in Wales, Llandudno is located on the Creuddyn peninsula, which protrudes into the Irish Sea and has for hundreds of years grown up against the slopes of the limestone headland, known to seafarers as the Great Orme. Attracting approximately ten million visitors and foreign tourists every year, this popular seaside town and resort has some of the finest hotels in the Country, including the //stgeorgeswales.co.uk known in and around the area as the Best Hotel in Llandudno. Opened in the spring of 1854, the imposing Victorian property was built by a twenty-four-year-old, local man, (Isaiah Davies), after he acquired the empty plot in a rather unusual way, another tall tale for another time!
Lewis Carroll’s Connection To Llandudno’s Alice.
