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Rhos On Sea & Colwyn Bay
SteveH:
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
SteveH:
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/
SteveH:
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
Hugo:
The boat importing the sand on to Rhos on Sea's beach is out in the bay today
Nemesis:
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 !
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