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Dewi-Prys Thomas Papers, Series
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Pencadlys Gwynedd: architectural papers

The series comprises papers, 1968-1987, mainly correspondence and plans, relating to design negotiations on the new Gwynedd County Council Headquarters at Caernarfon. They include letters from Ioan Bowen Rees, Chief Executive, and Merfyn H. Roberts, County Architect.

Rees, Ioan Bowen, 1929-1999

Obituaries and tributes

The series, 1985-1991, comprises papers accumulated by Wyn Thomas after the death of Dewi-Prys Thomas, including obituaries and tributes in his memory.

Miscellaneous papers

The series comprises miscellaneous papers, 1936-[1979], including press cuttings from The Architect & Building News, 1936, illustrating the work of S. Colwyn Foulkes who designed the sanatorium at Penrhos College, Colwyn Bay; a letter, 1960, from a representative of Woman's Journal relating to the House of the Year project; and a building fund appeal leaflet for the Heswall Quaker Meeting House designed by Dewi-Prys Thomas in 1958-1959; and notes, 1977, by him emphasising 'the interaction between these Great Houses and the poets and men of letters of their times ...'.