Owner of 250-year-old Grade II-listed windmill gave it colourful makeover without permission
Melin Llynon on Anglesey was given the makeover to mark the island hosting youth movement Urdd Gobaith Cymru's Eisteddfod - and to look like its mascot Mistar Urdd. Image caption, The mill was painted to look like Urdd Gobaith Cymru mascot Mistar UrddHolt said he did not realise he needed permission to redecorate the Grade II-listed structure. "The original intention was to paint it back white, and I was willing to do that straight after the Eisteddfod," he said.
- ▪Melin Llynon on Anglesey was given the makeover to mark the island hosting youth movement Urdd Gobaith Cymru's Eisteddfod - and to look like its mascot Mistar Urdd.
- ▪Image caption, The mill was painted to look like Urdd Gobaith Cymru mascot Mistar UrddHolt said he did not realise he needed permission to redecorate the Grade II-listed structure.
- ▪"The original intention was to paint it back white, and I was willing to do that straight after the Eisteddfod," he said.
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Owner of 250-year-old Grade II-listed windmill gave it colourful makeover without permissionImage source, Phil HenImage caption, Melin Llynon was an old gristmill - meaning it would grind cereal grain into flourByGethin Morris WilliamsBBC Radio CymruPublished52 minutes agoThe owner of Wales' only working windmill has been ordered to return it to its original colour, after painting it red, white and green. Melin Llynon on Anglesey was given the makeover to mark the island hosting youth movement Urdd Gobaith Cymru's Eisteddfod - and to look like its mascot Mistar Urdd.
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