Old Postcards - Colwyn Bay Area

[Ian]

I like this new software.

Of all the packages out there, I've always favoured SMF, partly because the support forum is so good and partly because it's the least complex of all the packages I've used.

[DaveR]

St. Enoch's Hotel, Colwyn Bay, in the 1920s:

[DaveR]

Tan Y Bryn Bridge, looking towards Mochdre. The A55 now runs through this area on the line of the railway and the railway line has been moved to the right..

[DaveR]

Llawr Pentre, Old Colwyn. My Father spent some of his early years in one of the white cottages to the right.

[DaveR]

Early view of the beach along from Colwyn Bay to Rhos On Sea, where the Promenade now runs:

[DaveR]

The Wedgewood Cinema, originally the Arcadia, in Princes Drive, Colwyn Bay. Now the site of the Post Office extension, it was demolished around 1980 to allow the building of the A55.

[DaveR]

Colwyn Bay Station Forecourt in 1979:

[DaveR]

Princess Cinema in Princes Drive, Colwyn Bay. Now a J D Wetherspoon pub called 'Y Ty Lluniau/The Picture House':

[DaveR]

The Pavilion Band (looks like the Pavilion in Eirias Park) at Colwyn Bay:

[DaveR]

Mechanical Elephant giving childrens rides in 1951:

[DaveR]

The Colwyn Bay Hotel in 1972. Disgracefully demolished to allow the building of the Princess Court monstrosity:

[DaveR]

Rare landward side view of the Colwyn Bay Hotel:

[Fester]

The Colwyn Bay Hotel in 1972. Disgracefully demolished to allow the building of the Princess Court monstrosity:

I don't know much about Colwyn Bay, but that building looks fantastic.
It is a terrible crime when buildings such as that are allowed to be demolished. They NEVER come bacg again.

In Bradford where I hail from originally, there was a hotel called The Alexandra, where top stars of the day (such as Laurel and Hardy) stayed when they played the Alhambra theatre opposite.
It was a delightful structure, full of character, history and charm.  Now its a concrete car park.   it makes me  :puke2: :puke2:

[Ian]

Interestingly, the building that replaced it had  difficulty getting the council building inspectors to approve the final phases, so poor was the quality of construction. 

[Merddin Emrys]

Colwyn Bay Station Forecourt in 1979:

  Wow, thats how I remember it and there was a great little fun fair nearby too D)  now all gone