Spent much the mid 80s there, Boys brigade, the big ASDA, panini stickers from the little newsagents, if we were feeling really adventurous, a walk into Rhyl across the blue bridge, or the other way along the prom to Towyn.
4 January 2019
WARDEN HODGES
Yes the walkway via Rhyl Harbour which can get you onto Kinmel Bay promenade without crossing the bridge. Pubs are better there too. Had a couple of nights there this summer.
4 January 2019
BOBBY SVARC
My dad spent 8 weeks there to finish his training for his 2 years of time-wasting in the Royal Artillery
4 January 2019
EXXO
Aye, Kinmel was the biggest training and holding camp in Wales, with 20 satellite camps. Once all the WW1 Welsh troops had been demobbed (or been packed off to Ireland), the Kinmel Bay camps held 15,000 Canadian troops impatient to get back home … 42 men in each 30-berth at Kinmel Bay ….and 4 months after war ended they mutinied, which led to 5 deaths. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/entries/cfb526c8-186d-3afe-b3e0-095c8898f868
Kinmel Bay is only about 5% of the land in the picture, in the top left corner (but not the very top left which is Rhyl), being what is just below the Clwyd estuary between the widest beaches and teh railway line. Most of the foreground is Towyn. the race track is one of the very few permanent harness racing venues in the UK.
Robert Graves was stationed there after being seriously wounded, and his thoroughly entertaining youthful autobiography Good-bye to all That covers some episodes at Kinmel, including lying that his men had not traded 500 blankets for beer and cigarettes in Rhyl.
4 January 2019
BOBBY SVARC
Funnily enough, his first 2 weeks of Nation Service were at Oswestry.
Adam
It’s got an old Asda
4 January 2019
ChedGzoy
Spent much the mid 80s there, Boys brigade, the big ASDA, panini stickers from the little newsagents, if we were feeling really adventurous, a walk into Rhyl across the blue bridge, or the other way along the prom to Towyn.
4 January 2019
WARDEN HODGES
Yes the walkway via Rhyl Harbour which can get you onto Kinmel Bay promenade without crossing the bridge. Pubs are better there too. Had a couple of nights there this summer.
4 January 2019
BOBBY SVARC
My dad spent 8 weeks there to finish his training for his 2 years of time-wasting in the Royal Artillery
4 January 2019
EXXO
Aye, Kinmel was the biggest training and holding camp in Wales, with 20 satellite camps. Once all the WW1 Welsh troops had been demobbed (or been packed off to Ireland), the Kinmel Bay camps held 15,000 Canadian troops impatient to get back home … 42 men in each 30-berth at Kinmel Bay ….and 4 months after war ended they mutinied, which led to 5 deaths.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/entries/cfb526c8-186d-3afe-b3e0-095c8898f868
You can visit training trenches and Great War reconstructions at nearby Bodelwyddan Castle.
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/replica-world-war-trenches-bodelwyddan-13102647
Kinmel Bay is only about 5% of the land in the picture, in the top left corner (but not the very top left which is Rhyl), being what is just below the Clwyd estuary between the widest beaches and teh railway line. Most of the foreground is Towyn.
the race track is one of the very few permanent harness racing venues in the UK.
Robert Graves was stationed there after being seriously wounded, and his thoroughly entertaining youthful autobiography Good-bye to all That covers some episodes at Kinmel, including lying that his men had not traded 500 blankets for beer and cigarettes in Rhyl.
4 January 2019
BOBBY SVARC
Funnily enough, his first 2 weeks of Nation Service were at Oswestry.
4 January 2019