What was the name of the Welsh village designed by Clough Williams-Ellis, that was used in the fiming of the television series 'The Prisoner'?
"War and was buried in plot VIII, row C, grave 24 at Minturno War Cemetery. Their elder daughter, Susan Williams-Ellis, used the name Portmeirion Pottery for the company she created with her husband in 1961. Welsh language novelist Robin Llywelyn is his grandson and fashion designer Rose Fulbright-Vickers is his great-granddaughter. Sculptor David Williams-Ellis is his great-nephew. In 1958 Williams-Ellis was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ""for public services"". He was made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours 1972 ""for services to the preservation of the environment and to architecture"". At the time,"
"Who"" film ""The Five Doctors"" were filmed at the folly. The gardens are open to the public for a small fee. The former stable building was converted into a cafe and craft shop in 2011. Plas Brondanw Plas Brondanw () in Carreg Llanfrothen, Gwynedd, North Wales, was the family home of Clough Williams-Ellis, creator of the Italianate village Portmeirion, and elements of similar architectural styles can be seen at both locations. It is a grade II* listed building. The gardens, in a series of garden rooms enclosed by yew hedges and open lawns, linked by carefully planned vistas, is one"
"Plas Brondanw Plas Brondanw () in Carreg Llanfrothen, Gwynedd, North Wales, was the family home of Clough Williams-Ellis, creator of the Italianate village Portmeirion, and elements of similar architectural styles can be seen at both locations. It is a grade II* listed building. The gardens, in a series of garden rooms enclosed by yew hedges and open lawns, linked by carefully planned vistas, is one of only three Grade I listed gardens in Gwynedd. Plas Brondanw stands on the road to the tiny village of Croesor and the distinctive Snowdonia mountain named Cnicht, within the Snowdonia National Park. The house"
"Pinewood Studio Wales Pinewood Studio Wales is a British film and television studio operated by the Pinewood Group in Cardiff, Wales. The studio was announced in February 2014, after negotiations between Pinewood Group and the Welsh government resulted in an agreement for Pinewood to rent the site of the former Wentloog Environmental Centre in the suburb of St Mellons in north-east Cardiff. Construction began in the second half of 2014, and the studio opened in January 2015. The historical television series ""The Bastard Executioner"" was filmed on Stage 1 of the complex, and in other locations in Wales, and released"
"to design a house in an advanced Arts and Crafts style for Cyril Joynson at Brecfa in Breconshire In 1913–14 he was to be resonsilble for the rebuilding of Llangoed Hall in Breconshire, one of the very last country houses to be built before the First World War. While it is a mixture of a number of historic styles it was a modern features with elements such as the chimneys derived from the work of Lutyens Other work in Wales by Clough Williams-Ellis includes the Festiniog Memorial Hospital of 1922, Pentrefelin Village Hall, the Conway Fall Cafe. At Aberdaron he"
"Prose Medals, National Eisteddfod Drama Crown and Medal. Although she is originally from Blaenau Ffestiniog, she has lived in Dolwyddelan for years now. Writer and bookseller Ellis Pierce, also known as Elis o'r Nant, was from Dolwyddelan. In 1980 Walt Disney used Dolwyddelan Castle and surrounding grounds to film all the external castle scenes in the film ""Dragonslayer"". During the making of ""Dragonslayer"" many other scenes were shot in North Wales. Dolwyddelan Dolwyddelan is a village and community in Conwy county borough, north Wales, on the main A470 road between Blaenau Ffestiniog and Betws-y-Coed. The name of the village translates"
"The Village (The Prisoner) The Village is the fictional setting of the 1960s UK television series ""The Prisoner"" where the main character, Number Six, is held with other former spies and operatives. The theme of the series is his captors' attempts to extract information from him and his attempts to learn the identity of Number One and escape. Beyond its explicit physical setting, the Village is also viewed as an allegory for humanity and society during the Cold War era. Patrick McGoohan notes that the Village is ""within all of us...we all live in a little Village...Your village may be"
"signify the Mabinogi Tale of Blodeuwedd. Tylluan Wen Tylluan Wen is a Welsh language film / television drama produced in Wales in 1997 by Ffilmiau'r Nant and directed by Angharad Jones. It is set in Llan Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, as an adaptation of Angharad Jones' novel ""Y Dylluan Wen"" (""The White Owl""). The film is studied as part of the Welsh literature GCSE course. The village scenes were filmed in Talysarn, and scenes are set in Holyhead, Blaenau Ffestiniog, and on the Conwy Valley Railway. The ""Castell Blodeuwedd"" Scene was filmed at Tomen y Mur Roman Fort, Trawsfynydd, near to the"
"a school for a while but has since become a private dwelling house. Used as a location for the 1963 film ""Crooks in Cloisters"", The Lugger Hotel can clearly be seen at the film's end. It was also the location for the BBC comedy series ""Wild West"", which starred Dawn French and Catherine Tate and the location where ""Irish Jam"" was filmed, starring Eddie Griffin. Just to the south of the village is ""Broom Parc"", a cliff-top villa overlooking the sea which was the main location for Channel 4's 1992 serialisation of Mary Wesley's ""The Camomile Lawn"". It is owned"
"character of ""The Prisoner"" (the otherwise-unnamed ""Number Six"") spends the entire series trying to escape from a luxury island prison community called ""The Village"", and to learn the identity of his nemesis, Number One. The Village's administrators try just as hard to force or trick him into revealing why he resigned from his previous job as a spy, which he refuses to divulge. The location used was the Italianate village of Portmeirion in North Wales, which had featured in occasional episodes of ""Danger Man"". During production of ""The Prisoner"", MGM cast McGoohan as a spy in an action film, ""Ice"
"interned in the Jewish cemetery at Cefn-coed-y-cymmer. A mural was painted by local school children and unveiled by the Canadian High Commissioner shortly afterwards on the same site, while there is an ongoing campaign by the Cox family for a permanent memorial. The village appears in Richard Fleischer's 1971 film, ""10 Rillington Place"" starring Richard Attenborough and John Hurt. As Timothy Evans (Hurt) comes back to Wales, he is seen walking from the station, with various scenes then shot inside the main village. 100 homes in two streets of Merthry vale were demolished in 2009 to make way for a"
"consists of sheep but some other animals inhabit the area. Rhosgadfan Rhosgadfan is a Welsh village in the county of Gwynedd, formerly in the historic county of Caernarfonshire. It is notable as the birthplace of Kate Roberts, the greatest Welsh writer of the 20th century. The Welsh TV programme ""C'mon Midffild"" was filmed in the village hall, prior to its destruction. The hall was destroyed in a blaze believed to have been caused by arson . Nobody has been brought to justice. During March and April 2010 filming of SNOWDONIA 1890, a new television series to be shown on BBC1"
"for filming, a notable example of Brutalist architecture. Other places which play a role in ""The Game"" include Birmingham Moor Street railway station, Warstone Lane Cemetery, Cannon Hill Park, the Old Rep, Grand Hotel, Moseley Road Baths, Methodist Central Hall, Merevale Hall, Lickey Hills, the canals in Smethwick, Newhall Street, and the Birmingham old Central Fire Station. The interior railway scenes were shot on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway in Derbyshire. The series consists of six episodes, with each episode lasting for sixty minutes. The executive producers for the series were Faith Penhale, head of drama at BBC Cymru Wales; Hilary"
"the house for ""the spirit of the place"", which he described as ""so alive and raw"". Flete Estate, Devon was used for beach and riding scenes and shots of cliffs. Weisz was costumed by Dinah Collin, who aimed for a fashion foreign to Cornwall, and consulted portraits to create an authentic classy appearance. The pearls used in the story were also made for the film, based on an 1835 painting. The crew decided on only two main dresses for the Rachel character, since she was not at home in Cornwall. For the part, Weisz had to learn to ride a"
"19 studio apartments for rent. The developers expected to spend £5 million on the renovation. From April 2013, the Welsh television production company Fiction Factory started filming the police television series ""Y Gwyll (Hinterland)"", starring Richard Harrington. Filmed in both Welsh and English, the Welsh version was broadcast on S4C from October 2013, the bilingual on BBC One Wales from January 2014 and BBC Four from March 2014. Shot over a 124-day period in and around Aberystwyth and the surrounding Ceredigion region, the unoccupied building acted as both the series production offices, and the external face of Swyddfa'r Sir serves"
"filming. A low-budget indie horror/witchcraft film, it was written and directed by Andrew Jones, and released to DVD in 2015 under the title 'Conjuring the Dead'. Blaengwrach Blaengwrach ( ) is a community near Glynneath and Resolven in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. It is also the name of an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough, which is a larger area than the Community. The principal settlement is Cwmgwrach, a village on the south side of the Neath valley, of which the eastern end is called Blaengwrach, which sometimes causes confusion. Blaengwrach Community is a"
"Rhosgadfan Rhosgadfan is a Welsh village in the county of Gwynedd, formerly in the historic county of Caernarfonshire. It is notable as the birthplace of Kate Roberts, the greatest Welsh writer of the 20th century. The Welsh TV programme ""C'mon Midffild"" was filmed in the village hall, prior to its destruction. The hall was destroyed in a blaze believed to have been caused by arson . Nobody has been brought to justice. During March and April 2010 filming of SNOWDONIA 1890, a new television series to be shown on BBC1 Wales in the autumn of 2010,took place at various locations"
"and fast bowler was born in Trebanos. Actress Harriet Lewis who played Maggie Post in the Welsh soap opera Pobl Y Cwm was born and lived in Trebanos all her life. Trebanos Trebanos () is a village in the Swansea Valley, Wales. It forms, together with Craig Trebanos and a part of Pontardawe, the Trebanos electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough. Controversy and opposition concerning the South Wales Gas Pipeline passing through the village led to media attention for the village and a protest camp in 2006 and 2007. The village's name in standard Welsh is 'Trebannws'. But"
"Frongoch internment camp Frongoch internment camp at Frongoch in Merionethshire, Wales was a makeshift place of imprisonment during the First World War. Until 1916 the camp housed German prisoners of war in an abandoned distillery and crude huts, but in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland, the German prisoners were moved and it was used as a place of internment for approximately 1,800 Irish prisoners, among them such notables as Michael Collins. They were accorded the status of prisoners of war. Another of the prisoners was the future Hollywood actor Arthur Shields. It is a common"
"Leeds. During the time when the village was used as a location, the name of the village pub was changed from The Commercial Inn to The Woolpack when the landlord tired of the inconvenience caused by the frequent pub sign changes. Scenes were once again filmed in Esholt, 19 years after they were last filmed, as part of the special episode following Ashley Thomas's dementia storyline in December 2016 in an attempt to show a skewed, unfamiliar view of the village as perceived by Ashley. The mill owner Sir Henry Mitchell (1824-1898) was born in Esholt and received a knighthood"
"Western Island, probably reached by drawbridges. The island is called ""Y Weringaer"" or ""Caer y Werin"" in Welsh, meaning ""the people's fort"", and may have been used by the town of Caerphilly for protection during conflicts. On the north-west side of the Western Island was the site of the former Roman fort, enclosing around , and the remains of the 17th-century civil-war fortification built on the same location. The long-running British television show ""Doctor Who"" chose Caerphilly Castle as a filming location for several episodes, including ""The End of Time"" in 2009. On that occasion, producers used the residential quarters"
"The first ""Danger Man"" season includes four episodes which use footage filmed in the Welsh resort of Portmeirion, which later became the primary shooting location of the Village in ""The Prisoner"". Further inspiration came from a Danger Man episode called ""Colony Three"", in which Drake infiltrates a spy school in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. The school, in the middle of nowhere, is set up to look like a normal English town in which pupils and instructors mix as in any other normal city, but the instructors are virtual prisoners with little hope of ever leaving. It is often"
"located in adjacent fields; the typical Italian infrastructures show an atypical side of Portmeirion village which is part of the festival atmosphere. The music events and activities range from the Colonnade Gardens to the River Dwyryd, from the Tanglewoods to the beach. The festival's name is based on the cult TV show ""The Prisoner"", which was filmed largely on location at Portmeirion. The main character is called ""Number 6"", and was played by the actor Patrick McGoohan. In the series, Number 6 is a secret agent held as a prisoner in a mysterious coastal village. This TV show is iconic"
"when built, the longest reinforced concrete arch in Britain. Clough Williams-Ellis is primarily remembered as the creator of Portmeirion. While at first he established himself as a London-based architect he was to establish himself as major figure in the development of Welsh architecture in the first half of the 20th century, working in a variety of styles and designing buildings ranging from Country houses to workers housing. One of his earliest designs of 1905 was for a pair of Welsh labourers cottages in a vernacular style with end gable chimneys which imitate the 16th-century ""Snowdonia Houses"" In 1909 he was"
"Castle and Fforest Fawr. Filming began on 23, 2015. The show's producers spent 10 months considering locations in Wales with the help of the Welsh Government’s Wales Screen service, which encourages film and television productions to use locations, crews, and facilities throughout Wales. The project was one of the first major productions to move into Pinewood Studios' new facility in Cardiff. The set for the series, in the form of a medieval village with a small castle, was constructed to the west of Cardiff at Dragon International Film Studios in Llanilid. On May 22, 2015,""The Bastard Executioner"" was picked up"
"Make-Up, and Haydn Pearce for Best Design. Y Pris Y Pris (English: ""The Price"") is a Welsh television crime drama, produced by Fiction Factory for Welsh public service television station S4C. The series, described in its tagline as """"The Sopranos"" by the seaside"", is set in Carmarthenshire and follows the ""tangled lives of a group of gangsters who hide their illicit dealings"". The series was written and created by Tim Price. The first series comprises thirteen episodes. It was filmed in March and April 2007. The second series, comprising eight episodes, was commissioned by S4C in 2008 and filmed later"
"the late Glyn Daniel's novel ""Welcome Death"" (1954). Some areas of the town have been used in the recording of the recent series of ""Doctor Who"" and ""The Sarah Jane Adventures"" (created by BBC Wales). The local tearooms were used in the 2007 making of ""Y Pris"" filmed by and shown on S4C. Llantwit Major Llantwit Major () is a town and community in Wales. Situated on the Bristol Channel coast, it is one of four towns in the Vale of Glamorgan with the third largest population (13,366 in 2001) after Barry and Penarth, and ahead of Cowbridge. Llantwit Major"
"Llanigon Llanigon is a village and community in Powys, Wales on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park, north of the Black Mountains, Wales. The community population was 478. The nearest town is Hay-on-Wye, some 1.5 miles (2 km) to the east. It is in the historic county of Brecknockshire. The parish church is dedicated to the mysterious Saint Eigon, who may have been a daughter of Caratacus or (more probably) a brother of Saint Cynidr of nearby Glasbury. The former interpretation has inspired Barbara Erskine's novel ""The Warrior's Princess"", partly set in Llanigon. The church predates the Norman"
"with Cyril Abraham in which he recalled how he came up with the very unusual family name Onedin. He wanted something unique. He had decided to call the leading male character James but still had not found a surname when the BBC agreed to film the story. Then some inspiration - he said: The programme was recorded in Dartmouth, Devon, as well as certain scenes in Exeter, Falmouth and Gloucester (many of the dock scenes). The last series was filmed in Pembroke Dock, Wales, where the 18th-century naval dockyard and surrounding streets became Liverpool, and various coastal locations in the"
"respect helping the plague sufferers in London, but was found guilty of high treason and hanged, drawn and quartered on 10 December 1610. In 1976 the Children's Film Foundation production ""One Hour to Zero"" was filmed in the village and at the nearby power station. The film ""First Knight"" had scenes filmed around Lake Trawsfynydd. The film ""Hedd Wyn"" was filmed in and around Trawsfynydd. Trawsfynydd Trawsfynydd (; Welsh for ""across [the] mountain"") is a village in Gwynedd, Wales, adjacent to the A470 north of Bronaber and Dolgellau near Blaenau Ffestiniog. The total community area is 12,830 hectares with a"
"Llanigon churchyard. Llanigon Llanigon is a village and community in Powys, Wales on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park, north of the Black Mountains, Wales. The community population was 478. The nearest town is Hay-on-Wye, some 1.5 miles (2 km) to the east. It is in the historic county of Brecknockshire. The parish church is dedicated to the mysterious Saint Eigon, who may have been a daughter of Caratacus or (more probably) a brother of Saint Cynidr of nearby Glasbury. The former interpretation has inspired Barbara Erskine's novel ""The Warrior's Princess"", partly set in Llanigon. The church predates"
"in peace with his prize pig The Empress, but his family is always at hand to complicate his life. Offering a reluctant helping hand is his loyal and long-suffering butler, Beach (Mark Williams/Tim Vine). The series was produced by Mammoth Screen and was filmed on location at Crom Castle, near Newtownbutler, in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Some scenes were also filmed at Florence Court, a National Trust property near Kinawley in south-west County Fermanagh. The producer was Spencer Campbell and the director was Paul Seed. It was the first adaptation of ""Blandings"" for British television since the BBC's film of"
"the individual novels; this enables them to move events across novels, according to screen-adaptation requirements. Principal photography for the first season was scheduled to begin on July 26, 2010, and the primary location was the Paint Hall Studios in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Exterior scenes in Northern Ireland were filmed at Sandy Brae in the Mourne Mountains (standing in for Vaes Dothrak), Castle Ward (Winterfell), Saintfield Estates (the Winterfell godswood), Tollymore Forest (outdoor scenes), Cairncastle (the execution site), the Magheramorne quarry (Castle Black) and Shane's Castle (the tourney grounds). Doune Castle in Stirling, Scotland, was also used in the original pilot"