A farmer from North Wales has spoken of how his community has changed to a village full of second homes and of his fears for the future.

Cyril Lewis, once farmed as many as nine smallholdings, all of which were once owned by the Forestry Commission, but have now been sold. He remembers how Cwm Penmachno was a thriving community of farmers and slate quarrymen in the upper reaches of the Conwy valley. 

Many years ago, the village was bustling as local people set up private shops in the village to supply the 100 quarrymen that worked in the quarry nearby, and the woollen mill. It was a community of self-sufficient farmers who would barter food and labour, and also had a top quality school.