Basingwerk

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Notes from our files.

The police office is PC69 Kenneth Edwards of the old Flintshire Force who is talking to Mr Cummins, a local landowner and the year is 1959.
A memory of Holywell contributed by The Frith Memory Archivist

Dancing days

I lived in Ysceifiog and used to travel by bike to the dances at the  village hall in Brynford.  I used to meet my friend Betty Davies and her sister Sheila, who lived in Brynford. They had two brothers Gerald and Leonard.  At these dances we had a band and an MC.  It was where I learnt the Gay Gordons and Quickstep and Waltz.  In those days my name was Wyn Parrington.   I met my first husband Frank Hansom from Holywell at the dances.  We married in 1955 and went to live in Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1957.  I had a wonderful life out there with servants and a nanny.  I learnt to swim and drive.  I had three children and ...read more here
A memory of Brynford contributed by Margaret Wynne

Schools and church

Pantasaph holds many memories for me. I remember travelling from Lixwm with my Mother, brother and sister and going to Sunday Mass at church, also travelling in a pony and trap to attend Midnight Mass. I loved these services, loved to listen to the monks as they chanted before each mass.
I also attended Sy Aloysious High School, then when that closed I went to the local catholic school. I would get a bus from Lixwm to Brynford and then if I was lucky catch another bus in Brynford to Pantasaph. It was a long walk if we missed it, sometimes walking in the rain.
If anyone else went to St Aloyious, my name then was Veronica Hard.
A memory of Pantasaph contributed by Veronica Pearce

My Home Town

I was born in Flint in 1946. Looking at the old photos in your memory archives of the 1950s, it brought back a lot of old happy memories to me. Looking at the Church Street photo with the Hawarden Castle pub on the right, the Red  Lion to the left. The Grand Cinema to the left and at the top of the street the  very posh Plaza Cinema. Also I see on the bottom of the street Pumphrey's old  shop and garage on the corner of Holywell Street  and Church Street  called Pumphreys Corner.
I  can smell the stench drifting up to Mount Pleasant up the Allt Goch, from  Courtaulds factories of which there were three in total, putrid acid smell ...read more here
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