Article: WALES: A slipway, public loos, a mortuary, old hospital and a bard's house; Put on the market by Gwynedd Council (just as it slows down).(News)

Byline: By HYWEL TREWYN

THE former home of one of Wales' most famous poets is up for sale among a clutch of buildings being sold off to boost council coffers - including two public toilets and a mortuary.

Liverpool House, Penlan Street in Pwllheli, the birthplace of Albert Evans Jones - better known by his adopted bardic name as Cynan - is being sold by Gwynedd Council to the highest bidder Cynan, best-known for his poem Aberdaron popularised by Welsh group Hogia'r Wyddfa, was made CBE and knighted in 1969. He died in 1970.

Local historian and former Ysgol Cymerau, Pwllheli headteacher Elfed Gruffydd said a suggestion to transform the building ...

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