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QUIZ QUESTION # 141
This week's questions are based on 1960s snapshots of Ocean Beach Fun Fair, Rhyl. In the above there is a white rollercoaster-type structure. Your crafty blogger has obliterated the name.The question:...
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MESSAGE FROM MARGARET
This blog has many Rhyl Convent School fans among its readers, and they may be pleased to see the following card posted in 1903 to May Conolly of Deganwy from a convent girl named Margaret: Margaret...
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QUIZ ANSWER # 141
Last week's questions were based on 1960s snapshots of Ocean Beach Fun Fair, Rhyl. In the above there is a white rollercoaster-type structure with its name obliterated. The question: What is the...
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QUIZ QUESTION # 142
Above are two Rhyl streets photographed this year. Each has a place name blanked out.The question: What are the missing names?The two correct answers would score 1 win.Below are old photos that were...
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MOVING UP
Statistics watchers may like to know that last weekend the all-time number of pageviews of this blog passed the 350,000 mark. The stats this evening at 10 p.m. looked like this:There are regular...
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MORE MULTIVIEWS
Multiviews are postcards featuring more than one picture - ideal to send home when on holiday. The example above was produced with a large amount of artistic licence and has artificial moons all over...
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QUIZ ANSWER # 142
Last Sunday I posted the above Rhyl streets photographed this year. Each has a place name blanked out.The question: What are the missing names?The answer: Bryntirion Avenue (TOP) and Victoria...
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QUIZ QUESTION # 143
Above is a picture from Rhuddlan Borough Council days, showing a land train at Marine Lake. On the side and front of the land train is its name; your crafty blogger has covered one word with black...
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TEAM SPIRITS
Roger Jones of Dyserth, an ex-Rhylite from Arfon Grove and South Avenue, has sent these photographs of 1961-62 sports teams at the Catholic primary school Ysgol Mair in St. Margaret's Drive, Rhyl.In...
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NOW WHAT?
As a committed European I feel disappointed that yesterday a majority of the electorate voted to leave the European Union.The EU is the most interesting political and social experiment of our time. It...
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QUIZ ANSWER # 143
Last Sunday I posted this picture from Rhuddlan Borough Council days showing a land train at Marine Lake. In the land train's name, your crafty blogger covered one word with black dots. The question:...
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QUIZ QUESTION # 144
Above is a picture of a woman who was well known in Rhyl during the 1950s & 1960s. Her signature has been masked by black dots.The question: What is her name?The correct answer would score 1...
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EURO-OLOGY
Since last week’s referendum I have received messages from readers connected with companies that were set up locally because Wales is part of the European Union. They are feeling apprehensive.Across...
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FLASHBACK #19
It is a while since we had a portrait of a Rhyl May Queen. Here is Gladys May Polkinghorne who was our May Queen in 1912 when King George V was monarch.George V was of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha...
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EURO-OLOGY # 2
Illustration: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance 'The Continental' in the film 'The Gay Divorcee' (1934).--Correspondence about the UK referendum continues to arrive here at Jones Towers....
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