Tiny Llanystamdwy, 1.5 miles west of Criccieth, was the boyhood home of David Lloyd George. The video, photos, posters and personal effects at the museum introduce the fiery orator and ladies' man who was largely responsible for introducing National Insurance in a two-pronged attack on unemployment and poverty. Later on in this career, his loyalty to Wales was challenged by his ambitions in Westminster, and though a friend of Churchill, Lloyd George became a shameless war apologist by WWII.
Highgate, his uncle's house that he grew up in, is 50m away, and his mortal remains are seeing out eternity in boulder-topped grave is about 150m away, by a babbling brook.
