{"id":125197,"date":"2022-03-12T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T06:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hello-200k-beach-huts-goodbye-primary-school-the-welsh-village-hollowed-out-by-second-homes\/"},"modified":"2022-03-12T14:04:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T07:04:06","slug":"hello-200k-beach-huts-goodbye-primary-school-the-welsh-village-hollowed-out-by-second-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hello-200k-beach-huts-goodbye-primary-school-the-welsh-village-hollowed-out-by-second-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello \u00a3200k beach huts, goodbye primary school – the Welsh village hollowed out by second homes"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAbersoch was once an ordinary fishing hamlet. Now, holiday flats sell for \u00a31.5m. We talk to locals whose community is disappearing under a flood of outsiders\u2019 cashOn a Monday night before Christmas in a chapel in Abersoch, a concert is taking place. Abersoch is a seaside village on the Ll\u0177n peninsula, the arm that sticks out from north Wales into the Irish Sea; and this is the end of term Christmas concert of Ysgol Abersoch, the local primary school, a wooden building across the road from the chapel.On the pews, spaced out in an attempt to keep Omicron at bay, sit parents, villagers, governors, former pupils; some are all of the above, about 50 in total. At the front of the chapel, facing the audience on the other side of a wooden altar rail, are the performers: children aged between four and seven, and dressed colourfully, as an elf, a doll, an angel, a reindeer, a grandmother with orange hair \u2026 and that\u2019s it. There are just five of them. Ysgol Abersoch is a very small school; that\u2019s the problem, though not everyone sees it that way.Ysgol Abersoch pupils performing their Christmas concert last year. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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