During the first World War there was a lot of trees cut down and I can remember `Gwinllan' Penbryn'. There was a lot of Scotch Fir there and also oak and ash.
They carried them down with big bogeys and two or three horses pulling them to the station to be loaded and taken away. There was another `Winllan' opposite my old allotment that was cut down as well - this was called Winllan Bach Tremeifion and the Penbryn one was called Winllan Goch.
Coed Ty Mawr was cut down as well; this was this side of Stabal Mail where the little stream runs. They did a lot of cutting in Soar as well under Clogwyn Gwyn, and Cae Bran was cut down as well as Winllan Rhosigor and a fire destroyed a lot of trees there in later years. I would like to mention Coed Ty Mawr as my mother was telling me that the coal merchant that lived in the Briws when she was a little girl, kept his horse on the flat ground near the stream and I have noticed that there is a mark on the wall where the gate was.
John Jones, Capel Fawnog, was one of the first usually with new potatoes and he was a very good gardener and worked for Lord Harlech at y Glyn. Lewis Owen, Llety used to be very early with his potatoes as well and he used to sell his them in the village and his brother Humphrey Owen, Draenogau used to take a load of carrots and swedes to Blaenau Ffestiniog to sell and I can remember the carrots were 3 pence a bundle and the swedes were a penny each. It must have taken him a whole day with his horse and cart. Another good carrot grower was William Hughes, Glasfryn, he used to say that his carrots were as big as your arm.