A photograph of the Penffynnon area of Cwmystwyth in the 1920s showing the inhabitants and their cottages. The terrace of cottages was demolished in the 1950s in order to builld a new road, Ffordd Rhospeiran. The photo shows several different aspects of life in the village, such as the condition of the cottages, the sort of clothes people wore and the development of non-conformist religion and education in the village between 1800 and 1950. Top left is the house which was built in 1805 as the first Methodist chapel and chapel house. In 1835 the congregation was too large for the buildiing  so a new chapel, Capel Fynnon, was built nearby and the original building became a dwelling house. In 1862 the dwelling's roof was raised and a first floor put in to accomodate a school. Some years later, in 1870, Capel Siloam was built in the centre of the village and  the former chapel, Capel Ffynnon, became the Cwmystwyth Board School. In 1904 a bigger school, Cwmystwyth Council School, was built next to Capel Siloam in the centre of the village and the former school building gradually became a ruin until 1995 when a garden was developed within the old walls. Notice also, in the photo, the woman sitting in the doorway of her cottage with a baby on her lap, the clothes drying on the fence of the next door cottage, the birdhouse on the gable of the house on the left, and the fact that the people are clearly wearing their best clothes for the photograph.