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Bellevue Park c1955, Wrexham

Bellevue Park c1955, Wrexham
 
 

Bellevue Park c1955, Wrexham Ref: W153025

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Happy Birthday

My grandmother's sister, Eveline Mabel Massey was born at The Hand Inn, Town Hill, Wrexham on 20th May 1901 to Thomas and Emirrah Massey. Thomas was the hotel manager according to her birth certificate.
Just realised that's 111 years ago today!

My grandmother was born 2 years later at The Woolpack Inn, Llangollen where Thomas was the innkeeper.

BAKERY Department.

Denbighshire Technical College c1965
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I attended the Bakery Department Denbighshire Tech. from 1960 to 1962. Mr Nash and Mr Hawkins were the tutors. I went to the Tech rather than getting a job in a bakery because my Youth Employment officer said I was too small for bakery work and needed to gain weight and strength! I won the Burton cup and the Renshaw cup during my time there. I can remember all my classmates but not all their names! Tom Dooley gave me a ride back to Ellesmere Port with my big silver cup on his scooter! Wild ride! I remember a girl with tight curly hair called Angie, also Gwyneth, Brenda, Mike, John Ptitchard, and Donald Mac Master from Rhyl where I worked 2 holiday jobs and lived at his house (his dad was the local vet), he had a sister called Margaret. I remember vividly the big red dragons on the tiles up the staircase at Tech. The Queen visited Wrexham one year and we made the cakes for the... Read more

Opposite The Majestic Cinema

Brynyffynnon Wesleyan Church 1895
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I remember this beautiful church standing opposite the Majestic cinema with the church hall to the right & St Marks steeple behind. Tragically torn down to make way for an ugly row of concrete shops! Typical Wrexham!

Cemetery

The Cemetery 1895
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This is actually the chapel in the Ruabon Road cemetery used until about 1995 for burial services.

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