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	Clough Williams-Ellis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clough's elder daughter, Susan Williams-Ellis, used the name Portmeirion Pottery for the company she created with her husband in 1961.
		Clough Williams-Ellis was born in Gayton, Northamptonshire, England, but his family moved back to his father's native Wales when he was four.
		Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis (May 28, 1883 - April 9, 1978) was an architect, known chiefly as creator of the Italianate village of Portmeirion in North Wales.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clough_Williams-Ellis (2177 words)

	Portmeirion - Clough Williams-Ellis
		AA tireless campaigner for the environment Clough was a founder member of both the Council for the Protection of Rural England in 1926 and the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales in 1928 (and of which he was president for twenty years).
		Clough was a volunteer Lieutenant in the Welsh Guards and later served in the Royal Tank Corps till 1918 (awarded the Military Cross).
		Clough did not often write about his own feelings however among his unpublished papers is a note written in his 90s entitled Report on X: "He is narrowly un-emotional and even-tempered - only twice in his life having contrived to make a show of temper by deliberate intent.
	www.portmeirion-village.com /en/features-detail.php?id=19&MID=38 (651 words)

	Clough Williams- Ellis
		Clough Williams-Ellis served from 1915-18 in France and Flanders in the Welsh Guards and Royal Tank Corp and was awarded the Military Cross.
		Clough Williams-Ellis is often referred to as being a self taught, natural architect and landscape designer, he certainly had an amazing gift and affinity to his work.
		He was a life long advocator and protector for the environment which led to a knighthood in 1971 for his services ‘to architecture and the environment’.
	www.northantrim.com /CloughWilliamsEllis.htm (344 words)

	Portmeirion
		Clough is best known for Portmeirion (1925 to 1976) built on his own private peninsular on the coast of Snowdonia where he built to show that the development of a naturally beautiful site need not lead to its defilement and that architectural good manners could be good business.
		A tireless campaigner for the environment, Clough was a founder member of both the Council for the Protection of Rural England in 1926 and the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales in 1928 (of which he was President for twenty years).
		Clough was a volunteer Lieutenant in the Royal Tank Corps until 1918 (awarded the Military Cross).
	www.danger-man.co.uk /portmeirion/cwe.htm (353 words)

	The Prisoner and Portmeirion
		Clough Williams-Ellis, the man whose inspiration and vision created this place, had good reason to be pleased with his achievements.
		FILA etc. was born at Gayton, Northamptonshire on 28 May 1883, the second son of the Rev. John Clough Williams-Ellis and Hilda Greaves.
		An outstanding place of beauty and a national treasure accessible to the public and we owe a great debt of gratitude to Clough Williams-Ellis for his foresight, enthusiasm and effort in creating this wonderful and idyllic place.
	www.retrosellers.com /features85.htm (1420 words)

	Telegraph Gardening Heroic vision
		Clough Williams-Ellis was given the Brondanw estate in north-west Wales by his father in 1908 when he was 25 and he devoted himself to it until his death 70 years later.
		Sir Clough Williams-Ellis (he was knighted in 1972) had them all.
		This early 20th-century masterpiece is a blueprint for anyone interested in learning how to link garden to landscape, how to create drama using very few varieties of plant, how best to deploy garden statuary and how to create those most potent yet elusive of desirables, tranquillity and privacy.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /gardening/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=P8&xml=/gardening/2004/04/03/gtour03.xml (805 words)

	Virtual Portmeirion Sir Clough Williams-Ellis
		In 1958, he was awarded a Commander of the British Empire and was knighted in 1971 to become Sir Clough Williams-Ellis for services "to architecture and the environment".
		Sir Clough was the type of individual who knew what his dream was and had the inspiration, talent and motivation to enable him to carry it out.
		Clough purchased the property and went on to develop and build the village in two periods separated by WWII, 1926-1939 and 1954-1972.
	www.virtualportmeirion.com /cwe/bio.htm (425 words)

	Portmeirion History Home Page
		Daughter of Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, Susan Williams-Ellis and her husband Euan Cooper-Willis took an increasing role in maintaining the hotel and improving the cottages and village as Clough became more senior.
		A century or so later Clough Williams Ellis fashioned a dovecote structure around this, converting the chimney over the defunct mining chamber's ventilation shaft.
		It was then acquired by David Williams, who lost enthusiasm for it as it must have presented itself as a very exposed and bleak outpost for year-round living.
	www.portmeirion-history.co.uk (3052 words)

	BBC - North West Wales - Hall of Fame
		Clough Williams-Ellis was a great supporter of environmentally friendly architecture, putting forward the idea of green belt areas within and between the city and rural districts.
		Biography: Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis was one of the most innovative architects and environmental campaigners of the last century.
		Clough Ellis designed some recently listed gates in his birthplace village of Gayton.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wales/northwest/halloffame/arts/cloughwellis.shtml (333 words)

	Portmeirion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Despite repeated claims that it was based on the real town of Portofino, Italy, Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, Portmeirion's designer, denied this, stating only that he wanted to pay tribute to the atmosphere of the Mediterranean.
		Portmeirion is an Italianate resort village on the coast of Snowdonia in Wales, used as a location for many films and television shows, notably The Prisoner.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portmeirion (420 words)

	Sgwrs:Clough Williams-Ellis - Wicipedia
		There seems to be quite a host of Whatever Clough Williams-Ellis though, all with varying first names.
		But Clough Williams-Ellis should be fine until next ones turn up. :-) Cheers, --Okapi 13:58, 30 Aws 2004 (UTC)
	cy.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sgwrs:Clough_Williams-Ellis (55 words)

	Clough Williams-Ellis / 100 Welsh Heroes / 100 Arwyr Cymru
		Sefydlodd Clough Williams-Ellis ei gwmni ei hun tra yn ei ugeiniau cynnar, ac roedd, i bob pwrpas, yn bensaer hunan ddysgedig.
		Cofeb Clough Williams-Ellis yw"r pentref y treuliodd ef hanner canrif yn ei greu.
		Clough Williams-Ellis / 100 Welsh Heroes / 100 Arwyr Cymru
	www.100welshheroes.com /cy/bywgraffiad/syrcloughwilliamsellis (379 words)

	Virtual Portmeirion Frank Lloyd Wright and Clough Williams-Ellis
		Frank Lloyd Wright and Clough William-Ellis have two things in common: Welsh heritage and a natural conservation approach to architecture.
		CWE talked sense into FLW, and averted what might have been a very unpleasant incident.
		His reaction to seeing the unique architectural mixture was to give high praise, and then to take CWE on his own tour of Portmeirion, showing the creator what Lloyd Wright particularly liked.
	virtualportmeirion.com /cwe/flw.htm (188 words)

	The Fantasy Village of Portmeirion
		It is almost 70 years since architect and new-town planner Clough Williams-Ellis came upon the overgrown headland of Aberia, at the head of the Porthmadog Bay in Meirionethshire.
		In the unlikely setting of the coast of Wales, Clough Williams-Ellis created his vision of an Italianate village, complete with watchtower, grottos, a lighthouse, and a castle.
		Sir Clough purchased much of the furnishings, including the sculpted ceiling of the ballroom, which depicts the adventures of Hercules, and brought it to Portmeirion where it was reconstructed to become the "town hall."
	www.thehistorynet.com /bh/blportmeirion (604 words)

	Gwylfan : ViewPoint
		Clough Williams-Ellis was instrumental in the approval of the first Butlins resort in the nearby town of Pwllhelli.
		Initially, the local authority were against the idea of turning an old army camp into a holiday resort, but the respected Clough Williams-Ellis rose to the defence of the project stating that it would only help the area by containing tourists to a defined area.
		It is not a popularly known fact that Clough Williams-Ellis who was responsible for the creation of Portmeirion, also designed this wonderful building used as a tea-room and shop.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /gwylfan/gwylfan/criccieth.html (159 words)

	Meeting Sir Clough
		Sir Clough told us that McGoohan and he had become friends prior to filming and he felt he could therefore trust him enough to allow Paddy to shoot his magnum opus in the village.
		Sir Clough said that it had failed to work and if memory had served him correctly how it had sunk in the sea.
		It was then that he mentioned to us for the first time, as far as Six of One was concerned anyway, what was to become known over the years as the 'original' Rover.
	www.geocities.com /unmutualmail/page3.html (501 words)

	Eye On Wales - Observations From An American Perspective
		Bronwyn has happy memories of the times visiting at Plas Brondanw, remembering Clough and his wife, Amabel; both of whom she calls “formidable”, meaning that they were big people with a presence that must have felt like rolling thunder to a child.
		Born in Burton-on-Trent of Welsh parents, her father was Sir Clough’s brother Martyn, Bronwyn’s youth and young adulthood were spent in Northern Ireland and in North Wales.
		In the Village she made the green and white foliate clay panel, at Clough’s request, which is on the back of the Gothic Porches.
	home.earthlink.net /~walestales/04-3.htm (974 words)

	Clough Williams-Ellis / 100 Welsh Heroes / 100 Arwyr Cymru
		Clough Williams- Ellis’s monument is the village he spent half a century creating.
		Sir Clough’s role in preserving Britain’s environment was immense.
		But with new buildings added nearly every year, Portmeirion remained work in progress until 1972 by which time the newly knighted Sir Clough was in his nineties.
	www.100welshheroes.com /en/biography/sircloughwilliamellis (301 words)

	Christian Science Church
		Clough Williams-Ellis was an English architect who is best known for his Portmeirion village in North Wales.
		The present church, which is a familiar landmark to residents of the University area, was designed by Clough Williams-Ellis and built 1936-37.
		An attractive tall, white-painted church and ancillary buildings, rural rather than urban, neo-Georgian style, but handsome and with the masses extremely well-handled; tower with reticent copper cupola; poplar trees.
	freespace.virgin.net /rita.uahs/Clough.html (457 words)

	Where is the Village?
		Sir Clough Williams-Ellis's daughter, Susan, went on to found a line of pottery (dinnerware and china).
		When the lady died, Sir Clough Williams-Ellis bought the land for his architectural project.
		In real life, it is a seashore resort called the "Portmeirion Village Hotel" (formally "Hotel Portmeirion") in North Wales, built by the eccentric architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis.
	www.arvincasas.com /2/FAQ-6.html (1046 words)

	The Causeway School Museum
		The architect who designed the Causeway School was none other than Clough Williams-Ellis who visited these shores on several occasions.
		Other designs by Clough Williams-Ellis can be seen in the 'unique' conservation village of Cushendun.
		The design of the Causeway School originally had an open porch area which was eventually glazed, it was fine during the summer months but when the prevailing winter winds and adverse weather conditions set in it proved less practical for pupils.
	www.northantrim.com /causewayschoolmuseum.htm (122 words)

	BBC - Legacies - Architectural Heritage - Wales - Gogledd Orllewin Cymru - Cyflwyniad i bentref Portmeirion, a'r pensaer Syr Clough Williams-Ellis - Article Page 2
		"Mae'r tor hwn, a adeiladwyd ym 1928 gan Clough Williams-Ellis, pensaer a phublican, yn cynnwys cerrig o'r castell o'r 12eg ganrif a oedd yn eiddo i'w gyndad Gryffyrd ap Cynan, Brenin Gogledd Cymru, a safai ar fryn 150 llathen i'r gorllewin.
		BBC - Legacies - Architectural Heritage - Wales - Gogledd Orllewin Cymru - Cyflwyniad i bentref Portmeirion, a'r pensaer Syr Clough Williams-Ellis - Article Page 2
		Y perchennog oedd ei ewythr, Syr Osmond Williams, disgynnydd i David Williams, twrnai a'r AS Rhyddfrydol cyntaf dros Feirionnydd.
	www.bbc.co.uk /legacies/heritage/wales/w_nw_cymru/article_2.shtml (470 words)

	Clough Williams-Ellis - Wicipedia
		Pensaer o Gymru oedd Syr Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis (ganwyd 28 Mai 1883 yn Swydd Northampton, Lloegr a bu farw 9 Ebrill 1978).
		Yr oedd yn fab i'r parchedig John Clough Williams-Ellis.
		Mae'n enwog am gynllunio'r pentref Eidalaidd Portmeirion ac fe'i urddwyd yn farchog ym 1971.
	cy.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clough_Williams-Ellis (190 words)

	Jonah Jones - Wicipedia
		Mae'n enwog am ei gerflun efydd i Clough Williams-Ellis, ac hefyd ei gofeb i Dylan Thomas sydd yn Abaty San Steffan
	cy.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jonah_Jones (59 words)

	garreg
		Clough Williams-Ellis war memorial is a prominent feature, designed in 1922 on a site which he had previously earmarked for the village hall (SH 6123 4171).
		Garreg Terrace and the very substantial public house (Brondanw Arms), built of rubble construction with a continuous slate roof, dates to the third quarter of the 19th century with 20th century alterations by Clough Williams-Ellis; while Cyffin Terrace is a very distinctive long late 19th terrace with later additions (see photograph).
		The village developed largely as a series of terraced houses in the 19th and 20th centuries.
	www.heneb.co.uk /ffestlanengfol19.html (213 words)

	BBC NEWS Wales Snowdon cafe appeal 'seeks firms'
		The café was built in 1935 by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, who was also behind the picturesque Italianate village of Portmeirion.
		Appeal spokesman Rhodri Ellis Owen said: "I would not expect the public to come up with £2m in two weeks' time.
		The hope is that it will make it easier for people living outside the UK to contribute to the battle to replace the current 1935 concrete structure.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/wales/4516559.stm (514 words)

	Conway Falls, Betws-y-Coed, Snowdonia, Wales. Designed by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis (Portmeirion).
		Sir Clough Williams-Ellis is best known for his work in creating the Italianate village of Portmeirion (used as the location for the cult TV series 'The Prisoner').
		However, in 1938 Sir Clough Williams-Ellis was asked to provide a preliminary design for a new building on the site.
		Work proceeded with the current building after the war, but to a different Sir Clough Williams-Ellis design, on a site further from the falls at the edge of the car park.
	www.conwy-falls.co.uk /portmeir.html (188 words)

	portmeirion
		Portmeirion stands as a lasting monument to the vision of its creator Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, now recognised as one of the countries first conservationists, whose design philosophy that development of a place of beauty need not mean the defilement of the location was successfully achieved at Portmeirion.
		The village is made up of original Clough designs together with buildings rescued from the hands of the developers that were then transported to Portmeirion for reconstruction.
		Following a long search for a location for his dream Clough was offered the Aber la peninsular (about 6 miles from his ancestral home at Plas Brondanw) an area comprising 145 acres of woodland and farmland bounded by miles of beaches.
	www.ajacks.com /portmeirion.htm (1448 words)

	The Portmeirion Hotel
		Patrick McGoohan, whilst filming an episode of Danger Man at the hotel and its grounds in the early sixties, was so impressed with the setting that he came back in 1966 and persuaded Clough Williams-Ellis to allow filming of his tour de force The Prisoner there.
		Like Clough Williams-Ellis, McGoohan had a vision and, between them, they created monuments which have stood the test of time.
		The Portmeirion hotel was first opened 75 years ago by architect, designer and visionary Clough Williams-Ellis.
	www.retrosellers.com /review006.htm (730 words)

	Portmeirion - Cyburbia Forums
		Were he alive today, the architect of Portmeirion would quietly concur and append perhaps this serenely pompous homily: "Cherish the Past, Adorn the Present, Construct for the Future.” This architect’s name is (Sir) Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis.
		A tireless campaigner for the environment, Clough was a founder member of both the Council for the Protection of Rural England and the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales (of which he was president for twenty years).
		Clough did not often write about his own feelings.
	www.cyburbia.org /forums/showthread.php?t=10546 (1131 words)

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