Monday 29 June 2009

MOST OFTEN REMEMBERED


Cycle track
Cycle track
A highly scientific survey . . . ahem . . . of my last six or seven months’ mail and phone calls reveals that Rhyl’s most often remembered promenade attraction is the cycling and tricycling that used to be opposite the Queens.

Readers have sent the above pictures by email. The upper one  is believed to be from around 1930, by which time I think the space was called Queens Gardens. The lower one would be a decade or more earlier when it was Pier Gardens. Same place. Thanks, Gwyn and Brian.

The following image would be pre-WW2:


Have you got a more recent photo or postcard of the cycling track, or of the roller skating rink or activities anywhere else on the prom or at the fun fair? Do send it in for the delight of other readers. The email address is
rhyl.colin.jones@live.co.uk

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Here is a rarity – an undated ticket from when the same place was known as Queens Park Cycle Track.


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