Bron-y-Garth
One time residence of Charles Easton Spooner, and home to his minature railway with Topsy. On his death the house passed to his sons Percy & Charles Edwin. They lived in it for a while and then sold it to Randal Casson, a solicitor with the partnership Breese, Jones & Casson. It passed down through the Casson family to actors Lewis Casson and his wife Sybil Thorndike in 1933, who used it as a summer residence until it was finally sold out of the family in 1950. Diana Devlin, their granddaughter, was born there in 1941 and she would go on to write a book about the Cassons - The Casson Family in North Wales - published in 2019.
Situated on the opposite side of the harbour to the FR station and high above the slate wharves on Y Garth it was, and still is, just about the most imposing house in Porthmadog. With a telescope it would have been possible to see much of what was going on at Boston Lodge.