Mrs Maureen Davies (was Hughes) has been in touch to ask for more pictures of the Floral Hall. Mrs Davies was a frequent visitor there in 1960s when she was growing up in Rhyl and later in Meliden.The Floral Hall was created by Flintshire County Council and opened by Roy Turner who was Chairman of Rhyl Urban District Council in 1957-58. (Roy also had the melancholy duty of opening the Queens Ballroom as a market). Roy’s dates in office cast doubt on the widely-held belief that the Floral Hall opened in 1959.
What is certain is that on Wednesday 8th June 1960 the Floral Hall was reopened by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and renamed the Royal Floral Hall. At the time Rhyl council’s parks and gardens superintendant was Mr John McCartan.
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