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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No information came to me with this picture; it seems to have been taken from a balcony on the original Pavilion, looking west towards Foryd harbour in the 1960s. The row of sheltered seats in the foreground was a popular sun-trap, and I seem to recall that it was nicknamed ‘the South of France’. The white building on the far side of the children’s paddling pool is the Coliseum which began in 1921 as an open air theatre and was roofed in 1960.
The Coliseum had suffered water damage and its roof was green with moss by the time the building was done away with a few years back - along with the paddling pool - to make way for Drift Park, which opened officially in February 2008. Drift Park has an open air performance space and a repositioned pool. I’ve said nothing about Drift Park publicly except that it has “turned out to have some interesting features.”
Drift Park has won three or is it four design awards, which proves that someone somewhere is good at putting in for awards.
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