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My mum's best friend's father owned a cottage - Bryn Siriol- near Rhes-Y-Cae in the 1950s and 60s and some of my happiest childhood memories are of our annual holidays there. I remember going down to the farm (Black ...Read more

A memory of Rhes-y-Cae by Joan Machell

Memories from that long ago tend to stick in the back of the mind until an association brings them out. Being a small child, the village green at Bearsted seemed gigantic and the village pond was just a pond. We used to paddle in the ...Read more

A memory of Bearsted by Beverley Simmons

My wife and I bought our first house at Portishead, South Road, it was £2,200, we could only borrow, so the monthly payment was the same as a week's wages, no overtime or my wife's wages taken into consideration. We ...Read more

A memory of Portishead by burge_john

The great thing about Rhos as far as I am concerned was the fantastic wealth of singers in that village (it was the largest village in Wales). I lived at that time in Rhostyllen, a couple of miles away from Rhos, and I ...Read more

A memory of Rhosllanerchrugog in 1965 by Ken Edwards

I was born in Bryn Eitha Penycae in February 1941, I too spent many happy hours playing in the area of Pentre near the old mill. I also knew of Crad The Garth as mentioned in another correspondence. All the local villages had characters ...Read more

A memory of Penycae in 1950

Seeing this picture brings back many memories of helping my father to serve Petrol at our small village shop, called Min Afon Stores. Not too sure if that is not me, in the picture, as we actually went out to ...Read more

A memory of Betws-yn-Rhos by Bryn Jones

Though the summers were often cold and the on-shore wind very cold, it was great fun working as a lifeguard in the late 60s and early 70s at the Rhos on Sea Swimming Pool. In the mornings after ...Read more

A memory of Rhos in 1969 by Dave Moore

Previously I had posted to My Memories, a much longer, "informative" post, but I learned from further research that a lot of what I had previously heard was not accurate in fact.  My memories remain unchanged, ...Read more

A memory of Beccles in 1995 by Julie Freitag

I have many fond memories of holidaying at Pinewoods Caravan Park where my now late grandparents (Lil and Bill Potter) used to own a caravan. They would take me up there for 2-3 weeks in the summertime and my ...Read more

A memory of Wells-Next-The-Sea in 1976

My memory of the donkey path on the promenade. I used to walk from Old Colwyn to Rhos on Sea nearly every sunny day during the summer school holidays. They were the best Swimming Baths I have ever swum in, at Rhos. The donkey ...Read more

A memory of Colwyn Bay in 1968 by Joanna Jarvis