Thursday 26 March 2015

LINE UP!


School time again! Firstly, here is a cricket team from Epworth College, Rhuddlan Road (now Ysgol Dewi Sant) in 1905 with a jolly nice mascot!

Ysgol Dewi Sant

Next is Colet House, East Parade (now St. David’s Residential Home) in 1914. I wonder whether the young women were teachers or servants:


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Finally, girls of St. Mary's Convent School, Russell Road, circa 1955. Some are holding sports trophies bearing the name HMS Capetown; the reason for this maritime connection is lost in the sea of time:


Left to right:
Back row: Marion Jenkins; Dilys Nelson; Sylvia Parr; Judy Cocks; Antoinette Heysham; Margaret Thomas; Valentine Newton.

Middle Row: Don’t know; Don’t know; Anna Kavanagh; Cynthia Evans; Pamela Threlfall; Eileen Roberts; Joan Barnard; Valerie Hobson; Pat Walker; Jean Hands.

Front Row: Diana Nicholas; Mary Higgs; Don’t know; Pat Jones; Nora Watts; Angela Cummings; Bernadette Howarth, Valerie Burrow.

Thanks to Diana Nicholas, now Diana Davies of Canada, for some IDs. (Cute shoes, Diana!)

The photo belongs to Valerie Burrow, now Valerie Lovibond of Abergele.
I was delighted to meet with her and her husband this week. Val has loaned me a little album of her previous school, Arcville College, Rhyl. Images from therein will appear on blog in due course.

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Rhyl Life was closed from September 2010 to February 2015. Even so the site has clocked up well over a quarter of a million page views (260,233 when I last looked). 

Its sister site RhylTime is less well known. RhylTime is a YouTube channel created by Yours Truly. So far it features 44 videos and photo slideshows of Rhyl past and present. You can see RhylTime's Top Ten here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7BKgZiQNRSaVpnyTl8PgEpPusmd3dl_z

YouTube can be a bit of a jumble, so I always feel it necessary to point out that only the items labelled RhylTime are mine.


Colin Jones / email: rhyl.colin.jones@live.co.uk

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