Wednesday 27 May 2009

SANDS OF TIME

Clown & Digger Pugh GirlsTHIS IS THE BLOG OF COLIN JONES, RHYL TOWN COUNCILLOR: BODFOR WARD
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Here are some more stills from a home movie made in the late 1950s/early ‘60s: a couple of evocative beach scenes, the poor old pier, and a bright and breezy trio of performers from Prince’s International Circus which used to play summer seasons at the Pavilion; part of their job would be to go outside and persuade passers-by to book tickets for the show. Hard to believe that it was half a century ago . . .

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SAT 21st JUL 2018 UPDATE: Travelling circuses still come to Rhyl (Rhuddlan really). One such is Uncle Sam's Great American Circus. The following posters are from 2014.


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FRI 14th SEP 2018 UPDATE: The following poster for Circus "Petite" on same site is undated but certainly not very old:

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6720. Additional image added here in June 2020:


Billy Smart's - one of the very biggest names in circus - visited Rhyl on more than one occasion.

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