Claire spoke to Anne Jones from Hendy Farm Holidays. Diolch, Anne.
Q. Please tell other members a bit about you and your business
A. At Hendy Farm holidays we provide 5 star self-catering and 3 star Bed & Breakfast facilities in Tywyn, Southern Snowdonia. Myself and my husband have been running the business for almost 50 years. We started the B&B first, then had a caravan club site, and now have the self-catering cottages. We must have been in MWT membership for the full 30 years the organisation has been running! I have also been a Director of MWT and was MWT Chairman for over 15 years.
Our present house, built in 1905 for my husbands grandparents, was rented out in the summer for many years up to the second World War whilst the family moved back to the old farmhouse. My mother-in-law, having come from Borthwen, her family's farm in Llwyngwril, which had a long established campsite, probably one of the first in Merioneth, continued the tourism tradition. Having helped her mother on the campsite and established a B & B on the farm, where Clem Attlee, the Labour P.M. of the post war period was a regular visitor. Her mother once memorably remarking that she couldn't see how he could run the country and his cabinet if he couldn't control his own children. We all sometimes make mistakes!
