There’s a wall around The Gwindy pub now. I think the plan is to turn it into a wine bar. It’ll be interesting to see new life breathed into this old pub.
Twmffat!
A woman on holiday in a caravan park in Towyn went into Ellesmere’s hardware shop, Abergele, and asked:
“Excuse me, I’d like to buy a tundish”
“A what?” asked shop assistant G., whose first language was Welsh.
“A TUNDISH”
G. excued himself a moment and went to ask Mr Ellesmere in Welsh what a tundish was.
“It’s a bloody twmffat G.!”
“Aaah” sighed G., turning to the woman he said:
“Now why didn’t you say you wanted a bloody twmffat!?”
Has anyone else seen an urban badger in Abergele?
Early Wednesday morning, in Bryn Awel Avenue , off High Street, my father went downstairs to get the paper from his letterbox. Looking through the glass into the porch, he saw a sow badger, nibbling dry catfood sprinkled by the postman for the local cats.
Urban foxes are well known, but urban badgers…?
Do you know who owns this piece of land?
I’d appreciate some help in finding out who owns this piece of land please.
It’s in Pensarn, between the railway line and the beach, next to Ty Crwn caravan park.
Here it is shown on a map:
Mount Cottage, Abergele
Juliet Roberts has been in touch with a question:
“Some very helpful chaps were able to help me out a few weeks ago pin pointing were my grandparents had lived at the time of their marriage. I have since found out they also lived at an address in Abergele called MOUNT COTTAGE. Now..i know the area we called The Mount was on Water Street….but can any of you learned people tell me where Mount Cottage was situated please?”
Abergele’s 2012 Olympic torchbearers revealed
Here’s a list of the people who’ll be carrying the Olympic flame through Abergele on 29 May 2012
Eduard Kim (46) from Almaty
George Jacob (37) from Dubai
Gleb Nuriev (15) from Kondrovo
Graeme Johnson (69) from Dyserth
Joanne Wallace (34) from Warrington
Nathan Edwards-Hughes (19) from Abergele
Phil Jones(40) from Bodelwyddan
Stephen Bellis(56) from Mold
Steven Crossland(31) from Formby
(Source).
Good luck to all the Torchbearers, there’s sure to be a fantastic turn-out as the Torch enters town from the old road from Llanddulas, passes along Market St, turns left at the Gwindy lights down Water St, Dundonald Avenue and into Pensarn.
The Globe Cinema, Kinmel Camp
Earlier this year I published a post showing some pictures of Kinmel Camp. Mike Roberts left a comment to remind us that the Camp Cinema was known as the Globe. Here are a few pictures of the Globe Cinema.
These pictures are reproduced with the kind permission of the JTR forum, Rhyl. You can view their website at http://jtrrhyl.10.forumer.com The JTR initials are for the Junior Tradesmens Regiment Rhyl who were based at Kinmel Camp between 1962 and 1974.
The Globe Cinema,
Inside the cinema,
Some of the Staff,
Do you recognise anyone ?. Please leave a comment if you know who they are.
Milk Vending Machine
Gareths question about the milk vending machine outside Parr’s Toy Shop, this is what it I remember it looked like. They were used far and wide in the 60’s to distribute milk to the puplic. I came across this picture a while ago, it shows a machine of the same type as the one I remember in Abergele. You had three selection, Milk, Orange Juice and Strawberry flavoured milk. I guess they could be veried depending on the supplier of the service. This picture was taken in the North East but it serves to remind us of the one we had in Abergele. Maybe someone else has memories of it.
Snow to finish- the last of the old street.
Almost the end !!!
