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QUIZ ANSWER # 152
Last Sunday I posted a photo taken earlier this year, with place names blanked out. The question: What are the two missing names?The answer: Sudbury Close and Haddon Close.Here is the photo with names...
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QUIZ QUESTION # 153
Above is a photo taken this month by Yours Truly showing a derelict house or bungalow abandoned years ago.The question: Where in Rhyl would you find it?The correct answer would score 1 win.--Below is...
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THE SINGING CARTOONIST
Roy Lance (Gordon Roylance) and his cartoons from the Rhyl Leader newspaper have featured previously in this blog. Recently, via his grand-daughter Dawn Brown, I made contact with his daughter...
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QUIZ ANSWER # 153
Last Sunday I posted the above photo taken last month by Yours Truly showing a derelict house or bungalow abandoned years ago. The question: Where in Rhyl would you find it?The answer: Tarleton...
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QUIZ QUESTION # 154
Above is part of a photo taken a few days ago in Rhyl by Yours Truly.The question: Where was I standing?Below is a picture of a badge.The question: What is unusual about it?This week you need correct...
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EURO-OLOGY # 5
At the recent G20 summit, shots were fired across Prime Minister Theresa May’s bows. If Japanese companies in UK were to become disadvantaged by our leaving the EU they may move to the continent.In...
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THE LAST ROUND-UP
This is a photograph of the last meeting of the Rhyl lodge of "The Buffs" i.e. The Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOB).The photo was taken in 1990 at the The Millbank pub in Grange Road....
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TIME FOR A LAUGH # 2
Roller skating is always good for a laugh unless you're the one underneath a pile-up. Costumes may not be an accurate guide to the date of this item, but the venue would be either the Queens in West...
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QUIZ ANSWER # 154
Last Sunday I posted part of a photo taken a few days before in Rhyl by Yours Truly. The question: Where was I standing?The answer: Paradise Street or Clwyd Street.I was in Paradise Street but with a...
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QUIZ QUESTION # 155
Question 1: What is the name of this Rhyl street? The correct answer would score 1 win.Question 2: Which statements are true/false? A: The Britannia Hotel was in...
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CLEAR THINKING
In the current term of the Welsh Assembly, Plaid Cymru is the second biggest party to Labour and therefore the official Opposition.Today Plaid published Programme for Opposition 2016-2021 a 23-page...
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OUT THERE
The above publication has been around for more than 40 years and at last has joined this blog’s Book List. It's Shipwrecks of North Wales by Ivor Wynne Jones. Pictured is the first edition published in...
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FLASHBACK # 20
Although the name Bradfield House does not spring readily to mind when considering Rhyl hotels, boarding houses and guest houses, it must have been a serious player to have put its name on this...
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OUT OF PUFF
A reader has asked if I know the whereabouts of Jeffrey Ditchfield who began trying to run a cannabis café known as the Beggar’s Belief in 2002 in Water Street, Rhyl.Mr. Ditchfield seemed to me to be...
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QUIZ ANSWER # 155
Last Sunday Question 1 was: What is the name of this Rhyl street?Answer: Eastville Avenue.The shot is taken from the middle of the road (not recommended) at east end of Eastville Ave, looking towards...
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QUIZ QUESTION # 156
Above is a photo, probably 1950s, of a place in Queen Street, Rhyl.The question: What is the name of the place?You are looking for three words.The correct answer would score 1 win.--Below is a card...
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CATCHING UP WITH MARK
A few years ago Rhyl West residents saw large numbers of problematic people being dumped into the ward by resettlement agencies.The uninvited guests included habitual criminals, addicts of alcohol and...
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JEWISH CONNECTIONS
Bill Ellis’ collection of material relating to Billie Manders & Quaintesques continues to grow. This was a concert party that entertained at the Pier Amphitheatre, Rhyl, in summer seasons from 1921...
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AN ISSUE OF TRUST
Photo: Russia Today TV--I am writing this on the day Jeremy Corbyn MP has been elected as leader of the UK Labour Party for second time by a big margin.The official position of the Labour Party is that...
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