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Offline SteveH

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Re: Rhos On Sea & Colwyn Bay
« Reply #300 on: October 19, 2019, 09:59:46 am »
It is not just my youth that has long gone...........

I thought somebody might have commiserated over the loss of Rhos pier, if not my youth...  ;)

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« Reply #301 on: October 19, 2019, 10:25:16 am »
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There was quite a debate about Rhos pier a few years back on here.
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Re: Rhos On Sea & Colwyn Bay
« Reply #302 on: November 27, 2019, 10:38:56 am »
Another photo ..........  Rhos fishing weir.

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« Reply #303 on: January 25, 2020, 02:41:06 pm »
Last night I watched a rerun of the BBC programme Coming Home with the recently deceased Terry Jones, of Monty Python fame, (I believe available on BBC iplayer,) returning to Colwyn Bay in 2009, part of the programme was a piece with Graham Roberts of the Colwyn Bay Heritage Group https://colwynbayheritage.org.uk/  discussing his family connection to Colwyn Operatic Players 0f which my Grandfather was a member.

During the interview, they discussed  his Grandfather and mothers part in the production of The Sorcerer in 1929, and I noticed that my GF was in that show, with both Terry's Grandad W.G. Newnes and his mother Dilys Newnes, nice surprise for me.

In 2015 I posted a piece on Terry Jones....http://www.threetownsforum.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,57.180.html    Reply #194 on: July 15, 2015,

Thank you Ian for the edit

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« Reply #304 on: January 25, 2020, 02:54:36 pm »
Done that, Steve.
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.  ― Michel de Montaigne

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Re: Rhos On Sea & Colwyn Bay
« Reply #305 on: January 21, 2021, 09:55:33 am »
ColwynBay Life
Colwyn Bay The Building Of The Tramway On Abergele Road 1915
 Very little has changed in this picture in over 100 years, with the exception of the removal of all of the shop canopies

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Re: Rhos On Sea & Colwyn Bay
« Reply #306 on: February 08, 2021, 09:32:57 am »
This is the Rhos-on-Sea Townswomen's Guild Choir, I think from around the 1950s? Gladys Dyster (my great aunt) and Muriel Clayton sit either side of the conductor.

If somebody on the forum has a relative in that line-up, I'd be very happy to pass this photo on :)

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I've edited the pic to make it clearer and the right way up.  Ian.

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Re: Rhos On Sea & Colwyn Bay
« Reply #307 on: July 24, 2021, 04:11:05 pm »
Rhos pier and me circa 1952, look at those knee's

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« Reply #308 on: July 24, 2021, 06:15:32 pm »
Now that's what I call a Pier          $good$                      Is that you in the picture Steve?

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Re: Rhos On Sea & Colwyn Bay
« Reply #309 on: July 25, 2021, 09:55:53 am »
Yes Hugo, that was me 1952, a few years later 1954 the pier was demolished, the family house, near The Abbey hotel, overlooked the pier.


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Re: Rhos On Sea & Colwyn Bay
« Reply #310 on: December 12, 2021, 10:05:35 am »
30 spellbinding pictures of Princess Diana visiting North Wales during the 1980s

This fantastic collection of images shows Diana, Princess of Wales on her official visits to North Wales in the 1980s.

The couple also took the time to visit Colwyn Bay while they were in the region.

Gallery ........https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/nostalgia/30-spellbinding-pictures-princess-diana-22388608?IYA-mail=a05105fc-304d-4c50-9807-edab51f779a4

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« Reply #311 on: April 08, 2022, 10:07:14 am »
Colwyn Bay in past decades
This week we look at old photographs of a Conwy seaside town.

photo gallery  https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/colwyn-bay-in-past-decades/

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« Reply #312 on: July 25, 2022, 10:08:59 am »
THIS week?s Nostalgia takes a look back at the Irwin?s stores that were once scattered around North Wales and Liverpool.

Irwin?s was a popular regional grocery chain founded in the 1880s by John Irwin, who originally opened branches in Liverpool and by 1902 had branches in 21 districts in the city?s vicinity.

The company soon expanded to North Wales, where they opened up a number of stores, in locations like Connah?s Quay, Mold, Prestatyn and Rhos-on-Sea.

There were soon hundreds of Irwin?s stores, from the company?s Liverpool heartland, along the North Wales coast.

A famous red livery was also adopted for the shops, which were often referred to in the firm?s advertising as ?The Ruby Red Stores?, while mosaics adorned outer walls of some branches.

In 1960, Jack Cohen bought 212 shops from Irwin?s, which was Tesco?s launchpad for expansion throughout the North-West of England, and the end of Irwin?s chain.         ref pioneer

 

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Re: Rhos On Sea & Colwyn Bay
« Reply #313 on: August 06, 2022, 03:25:07 pm »
The boat importing the sand on to Rhos on Sea's beach is out in the bay today

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Re: Rhos On Sea & Colwyn Bay
« Reply #314 on: August 07, 2022, 09:47:02 am »
They seem to have blocked another part of the pedestrian area of the prom, it was chaos when we drove through yesterday. Also there are bright new double yellow lines all along the top of the embankment on the side of the houses !
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to know.