Postcards from the past: Stunning Victorian views of Wales
With its glorious beaches, rolling hills and stunning scenery, Wales is popular with holidaymakers from across the UK.
And as this stunning collection of Victorian photographs show, it was also a favourite with Victorian and Edwardian tourists.
The vintage colour postcards from the Victorian-era show the landscape of Wales, its rivers bridges and cathedrals as seen by visitors more than 100 years ago.
Seaside piers and promenades remain mostly unchanged from those that visitors may enjoy today.
The snapshots show some of the country's most picturesque touristic spots, such as the canal walk in Llangollen, Bangor Cathedral and the Iron Pier in Llandudno.
Other images show the sun setting on a lake in Bala over 100 years ago, the lighthouse in Llandudno and Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in Llangollen.
The 18-arched stone and cast iron aqueduct took 10 years to design and build and was completed in 1805.
It is now the oldest and longest navigable aqueduct in Great Britain and the highest in the world.
The aqueduct was to be a key part of the central section of the proposed Ellesmere Canal, an industrial waterway that would create a commercial link between the River Severn at Shrewsbury and the Port of Liverpool on the River Mersey.
