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The Old Abergele Mill

Posted on 17/05/2015 by The Dennis Parr Collection

How many of you can remember this old limewashed windmill at the junction of Chapel Street and High Street? These photographs, from Dennis Parr’s collection and reproduced with his permission, show the old mill before it was demolished.

This is one of a series of images of Abergele from Dennis Parr’s collection. Mr Parr will be familiar to many who’ve lived in the town since the 1960s. He used to run Parr’s shops in Market St.

We’ll be publishing more images from the Dennis Parr Collection on this site over the coming months.

Tesco Abergele

Posted on 07/05/2015 by Sion Jones

Building Tesco Abergele in 2003 on the site of the old Abergele livestock market which closed in 1996 Photo by local photographer Sion Jones

Building Tesco Abergele before its opening Photo Sion Jones — Photo Sion Jones

For Tesco Abergele opening hours see this page.

Bee Hotel, Abergele

Posted on 07/04/2015 by Sion Jones

Bee Hotel, Gwesty’r Bee, Abergele

Tower Hill picnic

Posted on 02/04/2015 by Gareth Morlais

Easter has traditionally been a time when Abergelites head with a picnic up Tower Hill. Here’s an old postcard showing how one of our favourite landmarks used to look.

Abergele after that hot summer of 1976

Posted on 01/04/2015 by The Dennis Parr Collection

Even though it was October, the grass was still quite yellow when Dennis Parr took this photo of Abergele in 1976. We’d just sweated through a really hot droughty summer. You can see the corrugated iron roofs of the Market in the photo and a few fields which have now been built upon.

I wonder if we’ll have a summer like 1976 again soon…?

Dennis Parr’s photo of Abergele October 1976

Alexandra Rd, Abergele

Posted on 07/03/2015 by Sion Jones

Alexandra Road, Abergele. Photo taken in 2012/13 by Sion Jones

Alexandra Rd, Abergele

The ghost signs of Abergele

Posted on 15/02/2015 by Gareth Morlais

Sam Roberts has had a passion for many years. He runs a website about the ghostsigns in Britain’s towns. He even plots walking tours of places like London where you can look at these signs. These are the old signs which have been forgotten. In response to a special request from Sam on Twitter, here are two plus one which has been painted over here in Abergele, and here they are:

The Mountjoy, photo by Gareth Morlais, AbergelePost.co.uk — The Mountjoy Cafe and Accommodation ghost sign, by the Gele bridge in town in Abergele

Morgan's Medical Hall, photo by Gareth Morlais, AbergelePost.co.uk — Morgan’s Chemist sign. This used to be a ghost sign, until it was painted over, preserving it for longer.

Kinmel Camp appeal for information

Posted on 15/01/2015 by Gareth Morlais

Here’s an appeal which initially arrived at this site as a comment. It’s from author Jerry whose email address is jedbone at talktalk ot net. If you can help Jerry, please feel free to contact him directly, and leave a comment if you’d like to share what you know with other readers.

Here’s what Jerry wrote:

“I’ve been carrying out research for the last two years on Kinmel camp, mainly relating to its construction and layout of the camp during the Great War..

“I have several plans from 1938 onwards and a sketch of the camp from Julian Putkowskis book on the riots. I have also spoken to Julian about the camp.

“I’m currently trying to locate a plan of the camp during the Great War and have looked in every conceivable place locally and out of the area, including, National archives, McAlpines, local authority, council, libraries,records offices, IWM, MOD, highways, Cadw, CPA, National library of wales, Lidle collection, Royal Engineers museum, WFA, Canada, Kinmel Camp, etc, etc..

“Would anyone have an idea where else to look?

“I’m also trying to locate photos of the camp, its buildings and the men who served there and would kindly ask if anyone has photos of relatives. If so, would it please be possible to have a copy of them..

“This is part of a large project which hopefully culmunate in a memorial site to those who served there.”

The Little Flower of Jesus

Posted on 24/12/2014 by Gareth Morlais

This is the name often given to 19th Century French Saint Thérèse de Lisieux, after whom Abergele’s beautiful Catholic church is named.

Built in Clwyd Avenue and opened in 1934, the architect was an Italian called Signor Dr. Giuseppe Rinvolucri. He also designed churches in places such as Ludlow and Amlwch and, according to my father, he lived for quite a while in a house just above Glan Conwy.

“The plan is of a Greek cross, with a dome and round apses.” – http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/922843

You can read a 1932 news story about the then new church in this web archive of The Tablet: “an impressive setting for the opening ceremonies on Thursday of last week. The procession from the temporary church to the new building was witnessed by a large crowd, and fully five hundred persons formed the congregation.”

This beautiful Church is one of Abergele’s gems.

Pensarn Station 1948

Posted on 06/10/2014 by Gareth Morlais

Here’s a lovely old engraving kindly submitted by Delyth Ann. It depicts the opening of Pensarn station in 1848, as printed in the London Illustrated News at the time: