Josephine and Shane Stone at Portmeirion Wales
Portmeirion is a tourist village in Gwynedd, North Wales. It was designed and built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis between 1925 and 1975 in the style of an Italian village. The village is located in the community of Penrhyndeudraeth, on the estuary of the River Dwyryd, 2 miles south east of Porthmadog, and 1 mile from the railway station at Minffordd, which is served by both the narrow gauge Festiniog Railway and Arriva Trains Wales (Cambrian Line). Portmeirion has served as the location for numerous films and television shows, and was ‘The Village’ in the 1960s cult television show ‘The Prisoner’ starring Patrick McGoohan. The series was a surreal spy drama in which Portmeirion played a starring role as ‘The Village’, in which McGoohan as a retired intelligence agent, known only as ‘Number 6’, was incarcerated and interrogated. Whenever he conspired to escape he was pursued across a vast sandy beach by a giant silver ball.
- Document type: Photo
- Family groups: NOVAK, STONE (John & Harriett)
- Person: Josephine Gabriella STONE
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