Thursday 25 May 2017

RHYL 1969: A FAMILY ON HOLIDAY


Floral Hall

On my YouTube channel RhylTime you would find some home movies taken mainly in the 1960s in Rhyl. This week I added another video of this kind; it came my way as a reel of cine film in a box marked ‘Rhyl 1969’.

It is fairly typical family holiday footage (family unknown) comprising a series of short sequences shot in Rhyl and places nearby. The emphasis is on flowers and birds. Pity our seagulls, so loved at that time, are now despised by the eat-in-the-street generation.

In the video, our Floral Hall is in evidence and so are a lion, tiger and other zoo animals in cages. Biggest surprise is a scene of elephants bathing in the sea near Rhyl Pavilion whose resident circus had gone long before 1969.

Elephant on promenade

See what you make of it all, and remember – only YouTube videos marked RhylTime are mine!

Please click on the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4PCOcOKW0Y

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