Friday 21st February is Eisteddfod day at Ysgol Gyfyn Aberaeron. Shouts of Portland, Tanyfron and Tyglyn will be deafening in the school hall and pupils will be bedecked in the school colours. But why and when were these three names chosen?
It is commonly believed that these were named after three of the large properties in the area. I am ashamed to admit that as a former vice-captain of Portland House myself, this is what I thought. It is not the case.
An article on the then County School’s prize day in The Cambrian News of March 1919 ( see extract below) reports that three school teams or houses had been established the previous year and gives us the actual origins of the names.
They are actually so named as these were the homes of the first three Chairmen of the school’s Board of Governors:
· Major Price Lewes of Tyglyn,
· Dr Davies of Tanyfron
· Cllr JM Howell of Portland House who was Chairman at the time.
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