Happy Holidays
Staying with granny, Norton Avenue, running free all day with my brothers, the school my brother went to, now an Indian restaurant. Skelton and Dowell Butchers, St John's Methodist church, twice on a Sunday. The building of the promenade, hating it, the loss of the sand dunes. The high street with a farm in it, now Boots etc. Just the freedom to run all the day, my brothers played with the headmaster's sons, so couldn't get up to real mischief. The Denbighshire and Flint Show each year. Such a happy childhood, holidays every summer for many years.
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RE: RE: Happy Holidays
..and it was ALWAYS Sunny , every Summer..
My wife used to play, with Carol Vorderman amongst others, at the farm you mentioned..where Boots is now...and was very nearly a casualty as they had built a den there and were in it on the day it was excavated! Luckily, an alert builder heard them and chased them out before it was demolished..
I AM glad to see that the Scala has now opened, in its original architectural form, after suffering the dreadful 60s facelift which, in time, with years of neglect, almost fell apart!
Happy Days indeed..my own memories are of happy times spent on the sandhills behind the old Lido..open air, HEATED pool ( I am a Rhyl lad originally and had to endure the obligatory school swimming lessons in the freezing cold waters of Rhyl baths!!!..Brrrr..I'm feeling cold just typing about it!!) and the Amusement Arcade next to the Arnold Palmer Crazy Golf!!!
Comment from Nick Oldham on Monday, 20th October 2008.