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Bron-y-Garth is a house above Porthmadog. After the death of his wife in 1860, Charles Easton Spooner moved there and it was home to his miniature railway with Topsy. The house gets its name (in English "View of Garth") from the headland named Y Garth below. The headland blocked the extension of the slate quays. The house had previously been the home of Nathaniel N. Solley, agent to the Welsh Slate Company. Charles lived here long after his wife's death. On Charles's death in in 1889 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.

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