I was a regular in Rhyl (grandmother lived there) and I remember that leisure centre in Prestatyn being built, but my parents didn't have the inclination (and maybe not the money) to take me there. I do remember the pre-motorway journey taking for ever.
As a very young youngster I remember watching Punch and Judy under the clock tower, and visiting the lifeboat house. Also being amazed by the size of the output from the back end of an elephant which was on the prom from the visiting circus.
Maybe when I was 10 or so I remember running battles in the streets between mods and rockers, very nearly being caught up in one once, and watching the police at the station making the mods take their Doc Martens off as they got off the train - with a small recollection that they were confiscating laces but I may be wrong. Also massive amounts of scooters and motorbikes going up and down the prom.
Also I remember becoming very good at pinball in the arcades up there, a skill I still have to some degree.
I also remember comments here about recent Rhyl and last week took the Google walk around to look at it - remarkable how much one remembers after 50+ years absence... The largest and most diverse amusement arcade is now closed but others are still there, but renamed.
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