When we were children we used to play by the Smithy and the ditch went under part of the building but the farmer has put pipes in the field to by-pass the Smithy.
It used to be a very busy place on the Sation road in the old times with all the horses waiting to be shod, and we had the job from Griffith Roberts the Smithy, to work the big bellows to kept the fire going so that the horses shoes were red hot coming out of the fire, and when he was putting them on you could smell the hoof and you could hardly see him in the smoke and then he put them in water to harden.
It was a big day when Edward Hughes, Barcdy came with cart wheels and laid them down on the Station Road for Griffith Roberts to put the tyre on them and it had to be red hot. Griffith Owen, who lived in Penbryn Las went round the farms selling, he had a bag on his back. He lost three sons in the first war and their names are on the Llandecwyn Memorial.
As you pass the telephone box on the station road a little further down they used to weigh the pigs, the farmers used to come at a certain time and they pushed the pigs in to a kind of a big box, and after the poor thing had gone in, they were able to close the door and weigh them and I'm sure you could hear the pigs making a noise from Penrhyn. The man that was responsible for all this was Price from Harlech they called him `Price y Moch' and he had lost one arm in the First World War.
When there was a show, Lord Harlech took his cattle to the station to be loaded on special wagons they had on the railway and there was a special platform for that behind the station, where the clothes line was. When the cattle came back from the shows it was nice to see them if they had won - they had ribbons and tickets hanging round their necks and they walked them through the village all the way to the Glyn. On one occasion the bull got a fright on the station road and pulled the man in charge, who had a new suit on, until somebody came to help him.