If you were wondering what's happened to the Tesco questionnaire results, all I can say is that they're on their way. With a good response and 18 questions that need cross-referring, the analysis is slower than I anticipated. So, thank you for your patience.
Meanwhile, if you’ve been reading last week's Daily Posts, you will've seen an enthralling feature entitled "High Streets Through the Ages". There were pictures of Dinbych when its high street saw cars parked down the centre (except Wednesdays, of course, when the market occupied this area). On another day, there was a view of Yr Wyddgrug/Mold market, with stalls on either pavement but with through traffic heading in both directions down the middle.
And, there were pictures of Rhuthun/Ruthin, too. Fascinating, they were. A lively one of the Square in the 1920s, a picture of the bottom of Market Street in the early 1960s showing the old rail station at its foot. And this picture, attributed as "A view of one of the narrow streets in April 1965".
That narrow street is Well Street. I can't remember whether it was still the A494 in those days but the main road went through town, even though latterly traffic was signed away from it. Now, the A494 by-passes the main part of the centre, along Park Road, that once was the B5105. There is but a solitary car, a Mini, in view.
It must be a shopping day, for the awning's out and there's a family on the left, complete with 1960s wickerwork-type shopping baskets. And the pram on the right indicates that a customer's gone into the former shoe shop for something. Remember when it was acceptable to leave babes out on the pavement? One reason was because you couldn't actually get them inside so easily. This was during a time of pushchairs and perambulators, not buggies .
We tend to have some sort of rose-tinted view of pre-Tesco Rhuthun as a town centre that was far livelier than it is today. Is this a true reflection of things? The Daily Post's shot shows what the reality of real life in Rhuthun was. It's impossible to determine the time of the shot but the evidence is that it's during shopping hours. Yet, the streets aren't thronged as we like to remember them. Indeed, the streets *were* busier back then but not always so. It certainly wasn't as constant or consistent as we like to think.
Note the overhanging window on the Wynnstay Arms that we recently mentioned. Though I can't recall dates, opposite, in the 1960s, was Rhuthun Tesco Mark One. You'd think, if anywhere, that this corner of Rhuthun would be busy as a result.
There was also a Daily Post picture of a 1947 remembrance march, in Market Street, followed by “And how Market Street looks now”. Erm, the shot the Daily Post used was actually of Abergele…
Other points of note are the 1960s lamp column, the road sign poles and the pavement step immediately below the former Artifacts.
Meanwhile, if you’ve been reading last week's Daily Posts, you will've seen an enthralling feature entitled "High Streets Through the Ages". There were pictures of Dinbych when its high street saw cars parked down the centre (except Wednesdays, of course, when the market occupied this area). On another day, there was a view of Yr Wyddgrug/Mold market, with stalls on either pavement but with through traffic heading in both directions down the middle.
And, there were pictures of Rhuthun/Ruthin, too. Fascinating, they were. A lively one of the Square in the 1920s, a picture of the bottom of Market Street in the early 1960s showing the old rail station at its foot. And this picture, attributed as "A view of one of the narrow streets in April 1965".
That narrow street is Well Street. I can't remember whether it was still the A494 in those days but the main road went through town, even though latterly traffic was signed away from it. Now, the A494 by-passes the main part of the centre, along Park Road, that once was the B5105. There is but a solitary car, a Mini, in view.It must be a shopping day, for the awning's out and there's a family on the left, complete with 1960s wickerwork-type shopping baskets. And the pram on the right indicates that a customer's gone into the former shoe shop for something. Remember when it was acceptable to leave babes out on the pavement? One reason was because you couldn't actually get them inside so easily. This was during a time of pushchairs and perambulators, not buggies .
We tend to have some sort of rose-tinted view of pre-Tesco Rhuthun as a town centre that was far livelier than it is today. Is this a true reflection of things? The Daily Post's shot shows what the reality of real life in Rhuthun was. It's impossible to determine the time of the shot but the evidence is that it's during shopping hours. Yet, the streets aren't thronged as we like to remember them. Indeed, the streets *were* busier back then but not always so. It certainly wasn't as constant or consistent as we like to think.
Note the overhanging window on the Wynnstay Arms that we recently mentioned. Though I can't recall dates, opposite, in the 1960s, was Rhuthun Tesco Mark One. You'd think, if anywhere, that this corner of Rhuthun would be busy as a result.
There was also a Daily Post picture of a 1947 remembrance march, in Market Street, followed by “And how Market Street looks now”. Erm, the shot the Daily Post used was actually of Abergele…Other points of note are the 1960s lamp column, the road sign poles and the pavement step immediately below the former Artifacts.