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Colomendy Camp School
I attended Colomendy School for about two years, coming from the City of Liverpool. I was fascinated with all the open spaces and especially the mountain - Moel Fammu. I can remember having great times there: walking into Mold Village and day trips out, climbing the Catwalk, visiting the camp cinema, the tuck shop.
Then in 1949 I had to return to Tiber Street School for my leaving. I am now 71 but will never forget my time spent at Loggerheads. The local people were always very kind to us.
A memory of Loggerheads contributed by ronald jones
Jones Balers
Looking back from this photo is the site of the original Jones Balers factory. I have many fond memories of my early working life with a wonderful bunch of collegues at the factory. I often visited Herbie Ellis' shop which later was to be in one of the houses in this pond photo, also the Red Lion pub nearby.
David Jones (Young Dai)
A memory of Rhosesmor contributed by David Jones
Village Life
My first visit to the village of Llanferres was in the mid 1970s visiting relatives. Walking to 'Fairy Glen' and surrounding fields, hills, woods and farmland, I was in heaven and still am after 30+ years living in the beautiful little village with its pub 'The Druid Inn', perfect to sit out with a drink and take in the view or sample their excelent food.
Not too far are 'The Miners Arms', Maeshafon, 'Loggerheads' pub and park, and 'The Colomendy' pub at Cadole.
The memory of 1950s is a DVD taken from a cine camera in the early 1950s including a few carnivals, the 50 minute film is in colour but silent including views and many local people, some ...read more here
A memory of Llanferres contributed by Ian Robinson
My Grandparents and Father
Hello I'm hoping someone may be able to help me. I'm trying to find anything to do with my grandparents /fathers life, especially old photos of the area they lived and worked. My grand father was called Joseph Millington and he had a place of work/ factory in Hawarden. All I know was that it went under the name of Ellis & Millington. He was married to Annie whos parents had a farm at Llong. They had 2 sons Graham and Brian. I would appriciate any information as I would like to put something together for my father as a little surprise as he has just had a birthday and I cannot seem to find a lot on the areas where ...read more here
A memory of Hawarden contributed by helen Foulkes
Extracts From Mold & Clwyd books
The charm of post-war rural Britain is captured perfectly here. The Morris on the left advertises driving lessons, while another Morris van in front of it advertises the virtues of a local pedigree herd of Jersey cattle. The almost organic nature of the buildings here has yet to succumb to modernisation, yet Mold has had its share of industrialisation. The town grew in the 18th and 19th centuries through the productin of lead, coal and iron. The Wrexham Lager advertised on the right was the first to be brewed in Britain.
An extract from from"Wales Living Memories".
This old market town in the hills between the Cheshire Plain and the vale of Clwyd became the county town for the 1974 county of Clwyd. The Welsh name, Yr Wyddgrug, means ‘the mound’. Richard Wilson, the landscape painter, and Daniel Own, ‘the Welsh Dickens’, are buried at Mold. This view shows the main crossroads at the centre of town, looking up High Street towards St Mary’s church. The building in the centre left is the Market Hall of 1850; the Assembly Room in the third storey was added later in the century. A market is still held at the lower end of High Street.
An extract from from"North Wales Photographic Memories".