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On July 4th, 1862, Charles Dodgson took his neighbour Alice Liddell on a picnic and told her a story which later became a book called Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (which he published under the name Lewis Carroll). Dodgson taught mathematics at Christ Church College at Oxford University. He was a shy man but he always felt comfortable with children, whom he got to know by photographing them. Alice was the child friend he liked best of all. Her favourite words were "Let's pretend," so they were a good match. Alice Liddell was the little girl who was the inspiration for Lewis Carroll to tell his classic story. In the Easter of 1861 her family came to Llandudno to spend a holiday. Later Alice's Father purchased a piece of land and had a house built on Llandudno's beautiful West Shore. The family called the house Penmorfa and owned it for 11 years. Alice spent the Golden Summers of her childhood here until the house was sold in August 1872. While it has been suggested that Lewis Carroll may have visited Penmorfa there is no evidence for this. However coming from Daresbury in nearby Cheshire he would have been familiar with the North Wales coastal resorts and it is not impossible that he combined a family visit with one to the Liddell's holiday home.