Ken Griffiths goes back in time to ships of the past.

"There was a tea clipper called the Norman Court, which was launched at the same time as the Cutty Sark, which is now in London.

She was wrecked in about 1893 and Rhosneigr lifeboat went out to rescue the 22 people on board, but they couldn't reach them. So someone chartered a special train to take the Holyhead lifeboat crew to Twyn tryfan, where RAF Valley is now. They trudged across the sands and used the Rhosneigr boat to rescue them.

Two of those on the lifeboat were John and Richard Williams, the Bardsey brothers - a well known Holyhead family.

A fellow called Captain McBryde was rescued from the Norman Court, sent to Llanfair Bach to recuperate, and there he met Miss Pritchard, the daughter of the house, they fell in love and got married. So for years, the figurehead of the Norman Court was in the garden there.

I remember when I was small, seeing the figure head in the barn in Llanfair Bach, it's disappeared now. I heard someone say it's in a garden in Caergeiliog at the moment."

That ship's wheel was in the Bull in Valley - there was a painting along side it, describing what it was. But it's disappeared too. "

Robert John Williams recalls the film industry coming to town - and the difficulties of pretending Holyhead was actually the mid Atlantic.

"They came to Holyhead in the 1940s to make The Western Approaches, a film about the Atlantic convoys."

I remember this old boy who'd been a sailor in the first world war being sent to Tŷ Lantan farm during the filming. They had a boat just off shore which was supposed to be in the middle of the Atlantic, but all they could here was this cockerel crowing from the farm!

Then they created the lifeboat for the film down at the breakwater. They just had half a boat up on scaffolding, with the sea in the background. I remember the remains of that boat being in dock for years."

Ken Gray remembers a real wreck, and its effect on the town.

"I remember my father taking me out to see this boat which got torpedoed during the war, with 200 head of cattle on board.

All the cattle were drowned and got washed ashore, so to prevent disease, the locals were paid to bury them. But some buried them, got paid then dug them up and did it again for more money!

In the end they had to cut off every cow's tail to stop people pretending they'd buried more cows than they had!

I also remember a ship being hit and all its cargo of boxes of oranges been washed.ashore. But they were all for marmalade, so were too bitter to eat and we didn't have any sugar rations to make marmalade ourselves!"