Keith said he started looking for a new place to live during lockdown, including old petrol stations, cinemas, libraries, “anything that basically wasn’t a house”, he said.
“This chapel came up in north Wales, in a place I couldn’t pronounce, which I can pronounce now… we both can.”
He said the chapel “looked amazing” and was listed at a price they could afford.
“We knew it was derelict, it would have been unoccupied for 14 years, but we jumped in the car and went to have a look at it, and that was that really.”
Keith felt like he was coming back to his “roots” as his parents were from Swansea and Cardiff.
Marj had never been to north Wales before but found out that her father, who was a salesman of marine engines, had Pwllheli as his patch.