Mostyn Street

Climbing gradually from the roundabout at the junction of Gloddaeth Street with Mostyn Street and North Parade is Upper Mostyn Street, it leads to the earliest part of the resort to be developed.

Running behind the promenade is Mostyn Street leading to Mostyn Broadway and then Mostyn Avenue. These are the main shopping streets of Llandudno. Mostyn Street accommodates the high street shops, the major banks and building societies, two churches, amusement arcades and the town public library. The latter is the starting point for the Town Trail a carefully planned walk to facilitate the viewing of Llandudno in an historical perspective. Llandudno Town Library in Mostyn Street stages a permanent exhibition illustrating the development of the town. The Library has a good local history study centre and excellent computer access facilities as well as a fine collection of books. The Llandudno Tourist Information Centre is located in the Library.

The Library is surrounded by the Victoria Centre, which is a fine modern shopping Mall. Much of Mostyn Street is devoted to elegant architecture and fine shops of all descriptions. Great features of all Llandudno shopping streets are the very wide pavements and the many covered verandas, which make shopping in Llandudno a totally pleasurable experience.

Almost opposite the Library and flanked by shops is St. John's English Methodist Church. The church has a fine Victorian gothic tower with an elegant stone spire. Regular concerts mostly by leading Welsh male voice choirs are held in the church on Tuesday and Thursday evenings throughout the season.

Llandudno benefits from extraordinary foresight on the part of Lord Mostyn's Architects and planners who deliberately laid out the width of all the major streets to very generous proportions such that parking on both sides is generally permitted without restricting the passage of vehicles in both directions. It is just a very short walk from the Library along Mostyn Street flanked by its imposing shops that lead round the corner and into Clonmel Street and through to the Promenade. Clonmel Street is also opposite one side of Trinity Square and is thus the end of the first very short stage of the Town Trail.