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Aug 13, 2021

Boys who pioneered cookery classes


Cookery lessons were still strictly for girls in the early 20th century, but in 1909 boys from Llandudno's Lloyd Street School broke new ground by taking a cookery course. There was much demand for chefs in the fashionable seaside resort, which obtained special permission ...

from the education authority for boys to study cookery. The former school is now home to the new Penderyn Whisky distillery. For more about the school's history - including the day a pupil took detonators into school, with horrific results - use your smartphone to scan the HistoryPoints QR codes at the front or back of the premises. Or click here