Last Sunday Question 1 was: What is the name of this Rhyl street?
Answer: Eastville Avenue.
The shot is taken from the middle of the road (not recommended) at east end of Eastville Ave, looking towards the bend that leads to Oakville Ave.
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Question 2 was: Which statements are true/false?
A: The Britannia Hotel was in High Street.
FALSE.
One of my early essays said there was a Britannia Hotel on the site of the present Co-op way back before Regal Cinema. In fact it was Britannia Inn (later renamed Britannia Forge) which I believe became a garage.
B: The pier was open to the public for a hundred years.
FALSE.
Dates given usually are 1867-1966 during which the pier had several long closures for repairs. It was closed as unsafe for a 13-year stretch between 1913 and 1930.
C: The Skytower came to us from Glasgow.
TRUE.
The Skytower came from Glasgow Garden Festival. Somewhere I said Edinburgh; the slip was spotted by Pete Bethell.
[On Internet correcting errors is no problem. Be nice if we could undo our life mistakes as easily.]
Scoring 1 win for Eastville and/or 1 win for FALSE-FALSE-TRUE:
[On Internet correcting errors is no problem. Be nice if we could undo our life mistakes as easily.]
Scoring 1 win for Eastville and/or 1 win for FALSE-FALSE-TRUE:
Dilys Bagnall 2, The Great Gareth 2, Jane Shuttle 1, Sue Handley 1.
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Further to the above comments about the pier, the postcard below shows a banner declaring PIER NOW OPEN.
Click on the picture to see a bigger version.
The card is undated. Pay booths at the shore end indicate that the pier was still under private ownership at the time.
The banner may refer to re-opening after the pier had collapsed in the middle following a storm in 1909.
It wasn't the luckiest pier in the world.
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