Today is always a little difficult for me (and no doubt my sisters Helen and Lucy) despite it being over 21 years since we lost our father, John Gray, in 2002. Picture from his Labour Party election leaflet for Buckley Town Council in late 1950’s….Read more…
The Gresford Colliery Disaster – 22 September 1934
Today is the 88th anniversary of the Gresford Disaster which killed 266 Men (and boys). I was brought up in another former coal mining town about 10 miles away and remember learning as a child, the poem below. It is telling that I can still …Read more…
My home town #Buckley finally makes the “News” due to apparent “bloodthirsty rampage”
“Rogue squirrel bites 18 residents of Welsh town in bloodthirsty rampage – locals hide away”Hat tip ExpressRead more…
Romford Road (Atherton) Swimming Baths 1934
Hat tip for this wonderful collage to LCC Municipal https://twitter.com/lccmunicipal/status/1410575532434104323 (&@LondonNurse2015 for drawing it to my attention) . A souvenir brochure on the opening of the baths in 1934.
It has no…Read more…
Cllr Frederick (Frank) Matthews – my Great Grandfather
There is a lot of really nasty and unpleasant stuff on the internet and social media but there is also many positive things.
This week I was contacted by a long lost relative Graham via this blog who had searched the internet for his great…Read more…
Hawarden Park Walk: Gladstone, Dad, Airbus, Bagpipes, Ken Taylor and Bilberry Woods walk…
Off message but a post from a lovely 5 mile Easter walk in North Wales (pathfinder guide walk 5 “North Wales, Snowdon and Offa’s Dyke”).
I was brought up only a couple of miles away in Buckley, but have not been back to this area since, so…Read more…