Further to recent mentions of the photographer Pat Williams, here is a copy of a newspaper advert from the front page of Rhyl Journal & Advertiser dated Saturday December 9th, 1939. The item is from the collection of Peter Trehearn.The fire mentioned in the advert was referred to in my book ‘Rhyl In The Second World War':
“The war was raging a long way off, but Rhylites of a nervous disposition may have been unsettled by an event in the early hours of Wednesday 15th November. A fierce blaze broke out at Hampson & James, chemists, at 25 High Street . . . The shop went on fire in a cacophony of exploding bottles and falling glass, and there were spectacular colour effects as the chemicals went up in flames. The premises were gutted, and in the studio of Miss Pat Williams upstairs some equipment was destroyed. Mr Habesch next door had a narrow escape.”
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Re: the Sussex Street address mentioned in the advert: Nos.2-6 are now flats.
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