Not long ago my pal Jill emigrated from Rhyl to St. Asaph.
To mark the event here are a few more pix. The first is a shot of my alma mater Ysgol Ramadeg Llanelwy /
St. Asaph Grammar School on the Upper
Denbigh Road, circa 1920 (now Ysgol Glan Clwyd):
No, indeed I would not support the return of grammar schools
– not that there is even a remote chance of that happening in Wales.
Further up the Upper Denbigh Road, set back in several
acres of grounds is Bryn Asaph built in 1830, a six-bedroom property used at
times as a convalescent home. This card was posted in 1976:
Cards of St. Asaph Cathedral are not rare but the following is collectible because the inset shows Bishop Alfred George Edwards (1848-1937) a Bishop of St. Asaph who became the first Archbishop of Wales:
That monument like a little tower on your left is a memorial of the translation of The Bible into Welsh by an earlier Bishop of St. Asaph, William Morgan, who translated it from Greek and Hebrew.
Click on any picture to see a bigger version.
Here is a magic lantern slide of Cathedral nave looking East circa 1900:
The High Street looked like this around 1930 . . .
. . . and like this in early 1960s:
Here is a battered old pic of Y Llew Goch / The Red Lion in Gemig Street which long ago ceased to be a pub:
The Old Deanery in Dean's Walk was never just a pub. Around 1910 when the following was taken, it was a rather swish hotel with waiters in penguin suits etc. These days it is a care home:
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Pictured above is Bodlonfa Hall in Rhuallt, which used to be operated by Merseyside Youth Hostels Ltd. The card is postmarked 1953. Bodlonfa Hall is now a B&B.
Below is Brynbella in Tremeirchion, a 1790s villa with lovely gardens. The name Brynbella is an odd fusion of Welsh and Italian words. The pic is from a Sotheby's auction in 1994:
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