British Pathé’s web site contains 3, 500 hours of newsreel items just a few minutes long, originally shown in cinemas from 1890s to 1970. The clips include Rhyl FC winning Welsh Cup Final in 1952 and 1953, Solly Parker’s horses training on Rhyl Sands 1956, the hovercraft in Rhyl 1962, Rhyl’s First Carnival in 1927, and a North Wales Dance Contest at Queens Ballroom, Rhyl, 1951.The stills above carry a copyright message to stop people like me from pinching them. The clips are not marked to the same extent.
To see them please click on the following link and when you get to British Pathé's site, type Rhyl in the search box:
http://www.britishpathe.com/
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