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Also today, #FlintCastle 
Sorry to hear that this view of Flint Castle @AmgueddfaCymru in Cardiff has never been exhibited in North Wales - practical issues of course but maybe @cadwwales could display a photo of it or project it on the side of the ruin at night? museum.wales/collections/br…
This one is in a private collection having sold at @Sothebys for over £500k in 2010. art-turner.com/turner_1830_62…
In 1914, Emile de Vynck, his wife and baby arrived in North Wales. Their home in Malines, Belgium had been bombed. Lloyd George found houses for several displaced families in Gwynedd, and took the de Vynck family into his own home in Criccieth.
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On 16th October 1914, Emile was interviewed by The Cambrian News:
“I left Malines when the Germans bombarded it for the fifth time. Nearly everyone fled the day after the German brutes entered the town. In terror we rushed to another village.
“I left Malines when the Germans bombarded it for the fifth time. Nearly everyone fled the day after the German brutes entered the town. In terror we rushed to another village.
A kindly farmer hid us in his barn and we lay there on the straw. When we woke we escaped to Duffel and from there to Bruges where we arrived at midnight and found the town in darkness. Two ladies gave us hospitality and the next day at a very early hour we went on to Ostend.
