From the Dennis Parr Collection, featuring Mrs Pierce-Williams:
Category: gems
Abergele Ladies Football Team c1979
Here are some photos from the Dennis Parr Collection of Abergele Ladies Football Team taken in Pentre Mawr Park, alongside Sea Road, in about 1979. If you recognise anyone, feel free to use the Comments to add their names.
Abergele Round Table and Rotary Christmas Santa Float Dates 2016
Abergele has a great tradition of the Santa Float doing the rounds in December evenings. This year’s tour starts on Monday 6 December from 5.30pm in the Woodlands Estate.
Thanks to Colin Knowlson for letting me know about this via the Float’s Facebook page.
The old markets of Abergele
Local historian Goronwy Davies has done a great job of documenting Abergele’s agricultural history with his book “A brief History of the Markets and Fairs at Abergele North Wales”. There are some lovely old photos and the accounts of the visits to the town by the Royal Welsh Show, including lists of local prizewinners, show the huge research effort made. I’m not sure where this book is available to buy, so if you’re reading this and you know where to get hold of a copy, please use the comments form at the bottom of this page to let other AbergelePost readers know.
20 photos of trip from Abergele to Rhyl via Pensarn, Belgrano, Towyn and Kinmel Bay
Taken from the top deck of the ‘Cymru Coastliner’ double decker in August 2016. This trip replicates a trip I remember taking in 1973. That summer was the busiest I can remember along the Towyn stretch. There was a craze for wearing Kiss Me Quick Skweeze Me Slow hats. The place was packed. Not so busy today but a holiday in Towyn is still the highlight of many a family’s year and the memories of childhood holidays along the north Wales coast have prompted people to retun here time and time again.
Bryn Tirion through cast iron railings at Mynydd Seion
Easly overlooked, these railings are outside Capel Mynydd Seion, Chapel Street, at the side of the road which led up to the old town police cells. Through the gap is Bryn Tirion terrace of stone cottages looking down on Llanfair Road. Another of Abergele’s hidden treasures.
Eldon Drive, Abergele
Eldon Drive, Abergele
Pentre Mawr Park Abergele
Here’s a series of photographs by Sion Jones capturing one of Abergele’s true gems: Pentre Mawr Park…
Big Fairtrade Breakfast
All change again for Abergele’s shops
A couple of changes to report regarding Market St shops:
Lloyds the Chemist refit is coming on well:
And Kimberley’s furniture and applicance store is coming to town, opposite the Bee. There’s already one in Rhyl:
