Anglesey of such games left no hard feelings, with both sides parting "as good friends as they came, after they had spent half an hour together cherishing their spirits with a cup of ale... having finished Easter Holydays innocently and merrily." Football arrived on the island in the 1870s. It was initially met with resistance, given its perceived (by the islanders) associations with drunkenness and rowdiness, and the lower classes. One critic dismissed it as "un-Christian practice". The Anglesey League, comprising teams from Amlwch, Beaumaris, Holyhead, Menai Bridge, Llandegfan, and Llangefni, was, however, formed in the 1895–96 football season. The Ynys
Admiralty Arch, Holyhead Admiralty Arch, Holyhead Admiralty Arch, located in Holyhead, Anglesey, was built in 1824 to mark the end of Thomas Telford's A5 road. The arch was designed by Thomas Harrison and its main purpose was to commemorate the visit of King George IV of the United Kingdom in 1821, when he set sail from Holyhead on the royal yacht, on a state visit to Ireland. At the London end of the A5, stands the similar and larger Marble Arch. Funded through public subscription the structure took two years to complete and was made of stone quarried at Red Wharf Bay on