Great Orme Cromlech.
“Bartering the rights of the public.”
At a meeting of the Llandudno Urban District Council on Wednesday, attention was called by Councillor William Thomas to the fact that it was intended to make a charge of twopence for access to the Cromlech on the Great Orme, one penny of which was to be paid to the attendant for showing visitors the stone, while for the other penny each visitor was to receive a pictorial postcard of the Cromlech with information bearing on the subject as a momento.Mr Thomas said he would move that, having regard to the fact that it could not be regarded as a satisfactory solution, the matter should be referred back to the Works Committee for further consideration. Mr McMaster stated that he had great pleasure in seconding, because since 1857 he had had unrestricted right to the field where the Cromlech was without charge or difficulty at all. In his opinion the arrangement was a very insidious and a crafty one. There was to be no charge as such for seeing the Cromlech, but one penny was to be charged for access to it and for the services of the person who would show it to the visitors, while the other penny would be charged for the postcard. In 20 years, perhaps, it would be said that the right of access and of restricting it had been acknowledged by the Council. He favoured further and fuller inquiry being made into the rights of the public to the field in question.
(...) Eventually it was decided by nine votes to two that the Council disapprove of the arrangement arrived at, and referred the matter back to committee for reconsideration.
In the Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald, 21st August 1908.