Dressing room, 'Plas Mawr', New Plymouth
Production date
Circa 1926
Description
View of the dressing room off the master bedroom, 'Plas Mawr' [translated variously as 'great hall' or 'large manor house' in Welsh], 26 Standish Street, New Plymouth. 'Plas Mawr' was built for Charles Hayward Burgess, Mayor of New Plymouth from 1915 to 1919, and his wife Ann and was completed in 1913.
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Public comments
This photo with the tiles behind the wash basin is NOT in the bathroom but in the 'Dressing room" which is off the main bedroom. Also PLAS MAWR does not mean ( My Place In Welsh) although this is how it is referred to throughout the literature. Plas Mawr means" " The Large (big) Manor House. Chapman Taylor refers to the house as " a small house of a large kind" . If you key in Plas Mawr into Google you will come up with Plas Mawr Conwy North Wales which is a15 century Elizabethan Manor House . Cadw (Welsh National Trust) spent 2 million pounds on the place some years ago and it was closed for 2 years while renovations took place. On this website you will find the meaning of Plas Mawr!!
- June Moseley (Owner) posted 8 years ago.