If Greg had been back home to Holyhead for these few days when there was no entry in his flying log book, he may have spent today at the family home in Porth-y-felin, getting ready to return to Yatesbury. In those days, Porth-y-felin was a small settlement separated by farmland from the main port town of Holyhead. This photograph was taken close to where they lived, and shows Holyhead Mountain:
Rising some 720 ft (220 m) from the Irish Sea by the ferry route to Dublin and Kingstown (as Dun Laoghaire was then called), the rocky Holyhead Mountain was and is always more than a mere hill!
It was the mountain that had brought the family to the town in the early 1900s. Greg’s father was a mining engineer, and had been engaged by the mineral rights holders to reopen and then run the quarry at the foot of the mountain, which is mostly formed of “rather pure Holyhead quartzite” (see http://www.angleseynature.co.uk/geology.html).