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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These images show the Victorian hotel named Claremont Hydro. Hydropathic hotels such as the Claremont had their own indoor baths for relaxation and health treatment. They were expensive places in which to stay and Rhyl had quite a few of them because in those days the town’s visitors were comparatively wealthy.
Claremont Hydro was in Brighton Road and it became eventually a men’s convalescent/retirement home named Y Gorlan; the building was demolished in the early 1980s. A decade or so later Clwyd Alyn Housing Association built flats on the site and named them Y Gorlan.
My thanks to Bill Ellis, and to Doreen Jones of Rhyl Community Agency for much of this information, and to Gaynor Williams for the larger picture.
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This reference is added here for indexing purposes: Worthington brewery.
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