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COLWYN BEACH 1943
thaithyme:
PHOTO OF Colwyn BEACH 1943 the tram would come over the little Orme and run around Colwyn beach on it's way to Colwyn
Reg
DVT:
Nice pic ... but that's Conway (or Conwy as it is now)!
... and isn't it a shame they built the new bridge to block the view of the old one?
thaithyme:
Thank you for your answer, I have a Question to ask.
Dose any one remember a WW2 sea mine being washed up on Conway beach , I can remember seeing it on the beach when on the Llandudno to Conway tram around 1943/4. I was about 7/8 years old then, and terrified every time I looked out of the tram window and saw it. It looked like a very large metal ball with many spikes sticking out of it. I can recall it as if it was yesterday.
Reg
rhuddlan:
I remember seeing an old mine being used as a collection box for the Shipwrecked Mariners Society (possibly in Rhyl near the entrance to the open air swimming pool (brrrrr) or the old pier).
Apparently the Admiralty gave 200 to the Society after the war of which there are only 60 left.
More info here....
https://shipwreckedmariners.org.uk/news-and-events/mine-mine-challenge/
rhuddlan:
There is more information about the mines on this site....open it up and scroll down to 30 Jan (1943)...
https://homefrontmuseum.wordpress.com/tag/second-world-war/
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