THIS IS THE BLOG OF COLIN JONES, RHYL TOWN COUNCILLOR: BODFOR WARDl
The opinions expressed in this blog are entirely my own and not the views of the town council.
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This is Colet House, 36 East Parade, which is opposite the crown green bowling and Lifeboat station. Colet House has the year 1903 inscribed over its front entrance. It was a 'prep school' preparing children up to the age of 11 or 13 for the fee-paying institutions that we British describe perversely as public schools.
The photograph is undated and you would be brave to hazard an exact guess because the building’s appearance has not changed much in more than a century; I would say that the picture is pre-1945.
These days Colet House is St. David’s Residential Home for the Elderly and it's worth a second glance as you stroll along.
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TUE 17th AUG 2010 UPDATE: The postcard below shows another use of Colet House, as South Yorkshire Miners' Convalescent Home. The card was posted in 1956 by a chap named Billy to his parents in Rossington near Doncaster:
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MON 5th DEC 2016 UPDATE: This undated photo of Colet House is new to this blog.
What an interesting flag! Does anybody know its story?
Colin Jones / email: rhyl.colin.jones@live.co.uk
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