I remember growing up in Rhyl in the 80s and my Great Aunt Nell would come down every Friday on the bus from Abergele and cook LobScouse. It was a beautiful dish and would keep for days. Always used to look forward to running home from High School friday afternoon, walking in to the house and smelling that lobscouse straight ...
Going back quite a while now (probably 18ish years ago), I got the opportunity to go to an 80s band reunion in Chester Park. ABC, Heaven 17 and Spandau Ballet were playing. Being an 80s kid I just couldn’t resist. There were quite a few people there and all about the same age group. Most of the middle aged women ...
The Best Burgers in Rhyl back in the 80s! I think i used to have a halfpounder with cheese and it would fill me up for days! If i remember rightly ‘The Wimpy’ used to be the old ‘Forte Cafe’. Would have been about 1984ish when we used to go there. It was a sports shop last time i was ...
If you lived in Rhyl in the 80s you and your mates spent most of your free time in the arcades. Whether playing the best fruit machine ever ‘super lineup’, or doing the ratty gambles on ‘rat race’ or ‘chase the ace’. Although always making a loss, I remember all the arcades and also good friends that used to hang ...
It’s funny how certain memories stick with you. I remember being in 6th form in school and having a rare Def Jam 12″ Vinyl Record. This lad i knew in the 6th form begged me for weeks to borrow it and in the end i gave in and gave it to him. I was asking him for weeks for him ...
I’ve been trying to find out for weeks what this building was called. I actually thought it was a ‘nunnery’ but just found out that it was a Nurses Quarter and Training rooms but was known by the locals as ‘nunnery’. I was only young in the 80s when it was all closed down and ready to be knocked down ...
Went to Mexico a few years back and ended up on one of those pay to view tours. Apologies that I can’t remember the name of the places. Had a great time visiting the monuments and listening to the tour guide who was very passionate and informative about the history. In the afternoon we were going to swim in an ...
Was the dreadful day of March 6th when I lost my best friend ever ‘Charlie Boy’. We took him to a vets for a little skin tag growth on his snout but there was also a lump on his body. The vet checked this and in a few weeks his poor body was riddled with them. I cry every single ...
I met Jonathan one evening when my friend passed me a book he recently read, called Jonathan Livingstone Seagull. At the time Ugur and I along with other kids from the same apartment block were primary school students, in the 1970s. I guess I was in year three. We often got together and talked about various things, books mainly, or ...
I was so made up to find this image in Rhyl library about 10 years ago! My god it brought all the memories flooding back. I can’t remember where I found it, maybe some old tourism book or the likes of that. From about the age of 7 my parents purchased a flatlet house in Beechwood Road, Rhyl and it ...