Rhyl was a fantastic place to be before circa 1995. I remember some great weekends there in the 80s and early 90s. Fantastic pubs, clubs, restaurants, arcades and would you believe, I once stayed in a very posh hotel in 1984! I think the decline started when the government at the time allowed the DSS to use B&B accommodation when there was a lack of social housing. Suddenly every man and his dog realised they could move to the seaside, stay in B&Bs and the DSS would pay housing benefit. So a win-win situation, the B&B owners get a regular income, the DSS guest gets bed and breakfast 365 days of the year at the seaside, but that only attracted the transient, so instead of holiday makers with cash to spend, these seaside resorts slowly turned into towns with a population on welfare and no spare cash to spend.
It may be hard to believe now but, back in the 1980s, Rhyl was heaving with visitors and a popular holiday destination. In Ocean Beach, it had a fairly decent amusement park, probably the main draw of any resort for day trippers. There was also the Rhyl Sun Centre, a wet attraction akin to Blackpool's Sandcastle, and a BMX facility. Sad to say but the best thing about Rhyl these days is the road out.
Its sad to say this but most of our seaside towns have been slowly crumbling for decades through under investment from government. Its been twenty years since I visited the town and I don't think I will return any time soon. I'd much rather go to the main honey-pots in Snowdonia or even Aberystwyth prom and pier. 😀
It is all over the country. In the past forty years of travelling I have come to see wreck after wreck of places that once were amazing to visit, that in the hands of doped up councillors, that is all I can think of their mentality, all is ruined
Oh my days Rhyl has gone down quite a bit....I remember going there as a kid in the 80's and it was a busy bustling seaside. I remember every arcade, shops & pleasure rides being packed solid with visitors, not to mention The Tropical Caribbean Garden you could walk through, it had every tropical plants from the Caribbean in there. So sad to see Ryhl like this :(
Rhyl is not the seaside town it was, but it has improved to what it became in the 90's and 00's. It is a shadow of it's former self. I Loved my Rhyl holidays in the very early 80's as a child.
I had some wonderful times holidaying in Rhyl as a kid in the 80s and 90s. Now i take my two kids for holidays there, Rhyl is slowly improving now although it has lost its 80s charm. Either way I love the place. Always will.
Love visiting Rhyl.My Hubby's car broke down the other week and we managed to park up on the road.Whilst awaiting recovery The people who saw we were having problems came out of their houses and offered us cups of tea, chairs to sit on and even a Car! We were on our way to Deganwy to see family. Rhyl is being regenerated with investment into the town. I do a Power Walk from east to west Rhyl when in Wales. Some cracking priced properties in Rhyl. Some good retail parks in the Town too. As for it being quiet it's the same in other Towns My Son says the same about Llandudno at night.
We've had a caravan in rhyl for nearly 14 years. Work is being done to improve the area but it can't be done over night. We love it here. Like you said the residents are friendly and will offer help. We have holidayed here for over 30 years hence why we bought a static caravan.
Hi Stephen, we used to take the kids to Rhyl late 70s early 80s it wasn't too bad then. My parents also took me and my late brother there too, had some great holidays there in the 60s. The old building there knocking down was once the Queens Hotel had live entertainment on years ago and was a quite nice place, big hotel too. The other old building that's B&M Bargains was Woolworths. Thanks for some good memories, I think I'd give it a swerve now.👍
Rhyl was nice to go to in the late 50s and 60, today it's a shit hole, plus it's been ring fenced,ie people come out of prison and put into Rhyl so they know where they are, I avoid the place like the black death ☠️ and Iive In prestayn , only 4 mies away!!
The councils for lots of seaside places need to be answerable for their actions and what we now see before us.Money minded councils for themselves and not the public sadly.I came to rhyl as a child and its deterioration is beyond belief.Thankyou for this video you are doing some really great interesting ones.
Hubby and I watch all your content about Blackpool (thank you so much for all you do.) We both grew up in Rhyl, moved away eleven years back. The town clock is leaning but was made safe, took them an age to finish. Our son and family still live there (not in the clock) 😂 The telephone exchange looked that bad even when it was used! The new police station is outside St Asaph. The sky tower was from the Glasgow Garden Festival, we used to think it was amazing. The fun fair was at the end of the prom and closed when we were there, it’s now a small retail park. Lots to tell you if you need more info.
Love visiting Rhyl.I stay at Talacre drive up,park up then walk along the Promenade to the Marina then back into Town.That retail park gets busy! Great improvements to the Town are ongoing.Plus there is a fab yarn shop! In the centre.
Some parts are rough, the same I guess of any seaside town. As a whole, in the 10 years I've lived in the area it has improved a lot. I hope it continues this trend for another 10 years.
Drugs and Low-cost foreign holidays destroyed Rhyl. The problem continues on because the town is full of halfway houses for ex-prisoners and the vulnerable which has prolonged its status as a go-to for county lines dealers from Liverpool and Manchester. Seems a lot of towns in that part of North-East Wales have the same issues. The last time i went there i legit saw someone getting their door done in with the big red key and about 10 coppers flying in.
Sadly Blackpool has deteriorated, not a place I would even consider for a weekend break. I remember Rhyl from the sixties and early seventies, we stayed on the caravan park in Towyn, it was so lovely then, the outdoor lido, the tower clock on the roundabout was sat in the beautifully landscaped promenade. I’ll never understand how places like this get so bad, have we completely lost all sense of civic pride. I live in Wigan and that’s gone to the dogs.
I miss Rhyl so much. Moved away two years ago. I'd like to point out a few things. Firstly you've gone at a bad time. Nobody is going to be in the high street after the shops have closed. Most of the buildings you showed are currently being demolished/redeveloped. Dig deeper into Rhyl and the surrounding areas and you will find absolutely stunning views, nature reserves and places with amazing personality. Rhyl gets a bad rap but there are so many places that are worse 😊
I lived in Rhyl in the early 80's. I know some of it is run down but I still visit and have a love for the place. The B& M building used to be Woolworths. I remember Don Estelle singing there while he sold his music cassettes. Nice video. Thanks for your work.
We used to go there in the sixties and seventies and it was brilliant for us from the Midlands and we used to go in the library which was attached to the clocktower and it's really sad to see it now.
my Uncle used to to wind that clocks up manually and i starred in the local, “Little Theatre” as as Thespian, tea and coffee maker and Theatre set up, prop manager and fly box operator. I absolutely loved it. next week im off to blackpool to show the bad bits and not the good bits, Rhyl bites back. You missed the dragon bridge, asha’s Indian bar, rhyl’s 1891 and no Dr James missed his chance of being on television the Conservative pratt and the Town Quire has the best fish and chips ever in the whole of north wales! guarenteed!!!
Right back in 79/80 they built a Monorail Train track, from one end of the prom by Splash point all the way up to the Harbour, with a Station, opposite the Clock tower, on the Prom, all of this 30ft up in the Air? It was Only Open for a Year or Two, and then closed, after spending £m on it, took 5yrs, to demolish it, we used to go into the Station, via a Stairs set, still Accessible, to climb up, Blue, Red, Green windows, all around the Station, concrete Pillars Holding up the tracks, all the way up the Prom
I used to live in Rhyl when it was a lot of fun in the 1980s and a had a Saturday job at Woolworths, and after work off I went to enjoy the trampolines and Fun House at the old school funfair in my grey stockingfeet, ride the Mouse, Catterpillar, Dive Bomber, Dodgems, Big Dipper and many more amusements. Also swam in the Sun Centre sadly no longer here.
The Town Hall clock does lean, i remember as a kid in about 1980 it was a "thing" in the local press but apart from being sandblasted clean i don't think anything was done. The road on which it stands is Wellington Rd, Russell Rd is further out. Like most GB seaside resorts Rhyl has seen better days & cheap flights to sunnier climes hasn't helped. It's an ok place to live.
Have many great memories of living and working in Rhyl during the mid to late 80s. To me it will always be great and much of Rhyl I re still looks the same especially the arcade on the front. They haven’t changed at all with the same signage. It is run down in certain places but I believe they are slowly spending money to improve things. They have improved the harbour area at the far end of the prom which looks great 👍
As someone who lived in Rhyl for two decades, your video was the first time I noticed the leaning tower of the town hall of Rhyl! Fascinating what you miss when you're used to it...
I have yet to see this video, but a few years ago I was passing through Rhyl, and what a dive. My grandmother lived in Rhyl and we as kids, in the fifties, onwards, spent some amazing times in Rhyl, then a sedate place, really sedate, and a fun fair that was just right size. At a weekend all the drunks and druggies going around, throughout the night, shouting and bawling, rubbish bins are sprawled everywhere. The funfair was torn down, looked like a bomb at hit it, and surrounding area.
If any of the "Teddy Boys" are still about who used to work the waltzers and the bumping cars back in the late 50s/early 60s...I'm that little 8/12 year old boy with an Elvis haircut and his jaw hanging down to his chest and eyes wide open watching every move you all made...I'm still in awe of you and i'm 72 now l.o.l....god bless you all
Rhyl used to be a gret place in the 60s/70s, but it has deteriated since then, I called in last year, whilst we were staying in Llandudno, which is a beautiful seaside resort, the beat in Wales, because the Mostyn Estates whot own Llandudno, makes sure that the buildings are kept pristeen and have a strict planning programme for any new buildings, to blend it with the ret of the achetecture. I doubt Rhyl will ever get back to what it used to be, as it is so run down., it is too run down and developers wont invest in the place, because the lack of counil and government funding.
My parents used to take us on holiday to a B&B in the late sixties from Anglesey,went there in 1980 it was ok then. Went there in 1990 ,never again its an overspill of Liverpool.Best parts of Rhyl are the roads out.
I moved to Rhyl in the 70's from a small village called Bodelwyddan. Rhyl has gone down hill 😢. The clock, I think started leaning in the 80s. 2 wks ago there was metal frames around the clock, so maybe it's going to be fixed. You were right about telephone exchange and they have tidied up with benches and flowers. The buildings you have seen partly knocked down, have all gone. Sussex St where Weatherspoons is the market there has been knocked down. They should have started building but they ran out of money 😮. A lot of shops have gone from the high st as well 😢. You should come back to Rhyl and see for yourself. It's really sad. Blackpool. I love ❤. Rhyl take note!
The Palace is the towns best arcade. That's where I used to work. I haven't seen this place since 99. It doesn't look like it's gone downhill honestly, it's lost some stuff but gained some stuff
the "Sky Tower" hasnt been in use for years. it used to have a viewing platform which would take you up to the top & rotate to give you views of the coast and beyond - i remember going on it as a child.
Sad to see Rhyl like this, when I was a Young lad in the mid seventees, we used to go there for our holidays, and it was always jam packed, now it"s like a ghost town
Passing through one night and all you could hear were drunkards and junkies on the streets shouting, and litter, litter strewn the streets, and the back streets are appauling.
Well done Stephen. You have a nack of making even the dullest places look remotely inviting! I think if I went there, I'd stick to the promenade. Mr Blackpool spotted in Rhyl! Just goes to show, you can't go anywhere! Thanks for the video!
Went to Rhyl in 1986 as stayed in Prestatyn for 2 weeks and went on some of the rides they used to have at Ocean beach amusement park including the Runaway train powered coaster which was a bit like the Tokaydo express that was at Blackpool at the time
The telephone exchange is still in use but the grounds have now been cleaned up and used a community garden. Also you are not on the high street that’s Wellington Road. Please come back and film again I’d happily show you around
I loved Rhyl as a kid. We went for are holidays in the late 70s early 80s. As people are saying it was jam packed you couldn't even get a deckchair 🤣. I remember we used to stay on River Street. There was loads to do there from going on the rides and bumper boats, going to marina lake where you could go on the go carts and trampolining. And going to the Fjodlas I think it was called over a railway bridge. Shame to see it like this. Hopefully money will be invested in the right areas. Thanks for sharing 👍🏻
I haven't been to Rhyl since 1998 but all i can say from watching this vlog is that it has gone completely downhill, it's quite worrying and disappointing also.
Ive only ever visted Rhyl once as a child to watch Blue Peter film thier beach road show on the seafront. I remember alot of shabby looking buildings way back early 1990s, i hope the council does something to improve the look of the town. Great video as usual
Queens arcade which is the buildings you showed being knocked down, used to be similar to the base of the Blackpool tower. Amazing ballroom, and also had had a Venice style river running in the basement that visitors could ride through on boats. Sadly Rhyl has seen better days, and I do feel the investment may be a case of "too little, too late", as it's reputation will have put generations of people off visiting again.
The town hall tower was leaning, Your eyes weren't deceiving you!😂, opened in the 1860's as of today major structural work was done on it and, its straight as a dye now..
Nice video. The place of my childhood holidays. It really hasn't changed much. My parents used to bring us here as kids in the late 60s / early 70s. We used to think that we were in a foreign country as we'd hear lots of people including children speaking in Welsh, which I loved. I recognise much of this. Thanks.
I went to rhyl in the fifties and sixties,thought it was great for kids,....then In later years I thought....jeez give that place a miss...but the last couple of years its really poshed up...i really love a day out here now..i start off at kinmel Bay asda...then I'm off to the boardwalk...and promenade..i absolutely love it It's changed beyond all recognition..its a best kept secret....as I've never heard any body else raving about it...
In the 1970's Rhyl had 3 theatres on the promenade. Absolutely bustling place. Sadly forign holidays led to the decline. The first building that you looked at with the B & M store was a Woolworth's 2 storey shop. The tower has been closed for a good 10 yrs and was going to be demolished until a petition kept it. It now lights up of a night in different colours. The building site was arcades with planning permission for town houses ro be erected.
It's such a shame to see Rhyl in such a derelict state, I know they're doing it up and they're trying their best, but it is a absolute sithole compared to what it used to be. I remember going on holidays with my mum and dad and they were fantastic holidays... Such a shame...
Hi Stephen what a fabulous video ,you did in Rhyl ,we went ,when we were kids happy ,times ,really picked our spirits up ,with our ,mum passing away ,on Friday,,it made us feel a lot better ,thank you ,keith and ,Jayne Liverpool ☆
@@bernardrandles8013 No way! The Palace was the best thing about going to Rhyl! I absolutely love Prestatyn. I've spent many a day there, and have some grerat friends who still live there!
Really was a good place to go 70s and 80s since then gone down in my opinion due to, The travelling work Dodgers who said to themselves might as well be unemployed at the seaside rather than elsewhere I’ve noticed this with Blackpool as well.
Haven't been back for over 2yrs, ( covid mainly ) we had a caravan in Towyn for years, not that bad, ( of a day ), afew dickheads, but some good folk as well, good spirit about.
Poor old Rhyl. It’s a shadow of its former self. We have fond memories of it and I hope the money being poured in helps it to recover. Thanks for your tour. 🍻
Whatever happened to Ritas award winning cafe restaurant, the funfair & the rising observation tower ! A fistful of shops & arcades is all that remains here ! Great vid .
Les and Rita's are still in business, Funfair closed in 2007, Sky Tower... No longer functional and a night lighting feature now... The only constant is change.
I remember it well or some of it the obversion tower hasn’t worked in years and yes a nice beach 🏖 there used to be a funfair on the sea front but sadly that’s been gone a few years along with the sun centre thanks again for the memories Mr Blackpool 👍
I was in Rhyl on Sunday with the family. Parked the car and another family where letting there 4 year old have a poo against the wall. I do have a 4 year old and when they need to go they need to go. But when I returned to the car for the beach stuff 2 hours later the poo was still on the floor next to the bin 😂 wife said can we never come back please lol yes hun
I used to go in the 60's, with the St John's Ambulance Cadets, for our weekend, get together, thay would come from all over the place, and we would stay at the miners Holiday camp, there was no water in the pool, so they played football in it instead, there was a Derelict Funfair on the Pier, you could see the sea though the missing Bords, but they was building a new Funfair at the time, it had lovely sea front, there was a petrol station with a big Shark hung up out side, the camp had old wooden Chalets, that was the last time I visited Rhyl, many moons ago, but always had a good time,
Hi stephen,what you said what you could see was the great orme in the distance from rhyl prom,it was Anglesey.The derelict building was an indoor market,it is all being demolished.
I moved into an apartment on West Parade looking out onto the sea in June 2019. I knew nothing about the airshow at the time, and got a heck of a surprise that weekend 😯
OMG! This is so sad to see it like this ,to be honest had a ride through on Sunday and my stomache turned,absolutely derelict.We always came to sunny Rhyl every year for a fortnight's holiday at the time we used to stay in a camp Robinsons next to Golden Gate,we would come the same weeks every year and we'would stay in caravan C69 with a parrot in the window "stuffed one". Now this used to be so busy infact absolutely packed from 1 camp to the next,and Rhyl well everybody used to be on top of one and other,like blooming ants,rockers and mods,kiss me quick,kiss me slowly hat's,candy floss,open swimming pool,arcades packed to high heaven,the main fair ground gone,it's just turning into a shopping centre. Well I suppose all generations change along with everything else,but my memories of holidays in Rhyl from the age are just the Happiest ever of my child hood,I was born 1959 I was around 8 when we started going on hols this went on til I was 15 along with my sisters,and we would walk for miles,but we were safe we felt safe,and the best of it I only lived nr wrexham. Happy happy memories
Rhyl is still a place to look forward to visiting even if passing through. Nowadays though maybe it just needs some investment to give the seaside resort some special features and originality to complement nice nearby towns such as Prestatyn and Conwy.
Rhyl as gone hill since they got rid of the fair i have seen on UA-cam what Rhyl was like in 60s and 70s it was a good place to go then it's a shame really i remember i it was the late 70s there was talk go around that they was going to make it as good as Blackpool i wonder what happened to that idea yes at one time it was a nice place to go with lots of things to do.
Why do people come to my town and ducking slag it down? Because they have nothing better to do. Rhyl is a lovely town and has major improvements going on so leave Rhyl alone or I’ll come slag your town down with pleasure
Since the fair as gone in Rhyl not much there now… I remember as a kid on the front was a open air swimming pool.. I use to take my kids to Rhyl and stayed on Sunnyvale camp in a caravan And then we stayed in Prestatyn Robin Hood camp… I also loved towyn stayed in a caravan in wincups holiday camp I love north Wales but it’s ashame not much left in Rhyl Enjoy your stay if you are staying Another good video and I have good memories as when I was a kid staying there in a caravan and my kids also loved it.. My son as just come back from towyn he stayed two weeks he came back on Saturday but caravans are expensive now I was in haven camp in 2014 that’s called preset haven sands a brilliant camp for kids in Prestatyn
Rhyl was a fantastic place to be before circa 1995. I remember some great weekends there in the 80s and early 90s. Fantastic pubs, clubs, restaurants, arcades and would you believe, I once stayed in a very posh hotel in 1984! I think the decline started when the government at the time allowed the DSS to use B&B accommodation when there was a lack of social housing. Suddenly every man and his dog realised they could move to the seaside, stay in B&Bs and the DSS would pay housing benefit. So a win-win situation, the B&B owners get a regular income, the DSS guest gets bed and breakfast 365 days of the year at the seaside, but that only attracted the transient, so instead of holiday makers with cash to spend, these seaside resorts slowly turned into towns with a population on welfare and no spare cash to spend.
Allowing certain slum landlords to advertise flats for rent in prisons didn't help either.
@@davehornby4859 and don't forget Liverpool and Manchester using Rhyl
as a dumping ground for their rubbish.
It may be hard to believe now but, back in the 1980s, Rhyl was heaving with visitors and a popular holiday destination. In Ocean Beach, it had a fairly decent amusement park, probably the main draw of any resort for day trippers. There was also the Rhyl Sun Centre, a wet attraction akin to Blackpool's Sandcastle, and a BMX facility.
Sad to say but the best thing about Rhyl these days is the road out.
Its sad to say this but most of our seaside towns have been slowly crumbling for decades through under investment from government.
Its been twenty years since I visited the town and I don't think I will return any time soon.
I'd much rather go to the main honey-pots in Snowdonia or even Aberystwyth prom and pier. 😀
It is all over the country. In the past forty years of travelling I have come to see wreck after wreck of places that once were amazing to visit, that in the hands of doped up councillors, that is all I can think of their mentality, all is ruined
Oh my days Rhyl has gone down quite a bit....I remember going there as a kid in the 80's and it was a busy bustling seaside. I remember every arcade, shops & pleasure rides being packed solid with visitors, not to mention The Tropical Caribbean Garden you could walk through, it had every tropical plants from the Caribbean in there. So sad to see Ryhl like this :(
TBF the beach looked fantastic
Rhyl was a beautiful back in the 80s I remember lots of lovely flowers beds xxx
You look just like my type Jo-Jo, I reckon me and you should get to know each other 🌹
Rhyl is not the seaside town it was, but it has improved to what it became in the 90's and 00's. It is a shadow of it's former self. I Loved my Rhyl holidays in the very early 80's as a child.
I had some wonderful times holidaying in Rhyl as a kid in the 80s and 90s. Now i take my two kids for holidays there, Rhyl is slowly improving now although it has lost its 80s charm. Either way I love the place. Always will.
I've lived in Rhyl 31 years, I'm happy
Love visiting Rhyl.My Hubby's car broke down the other week and we managed to park up on the road.Whilst awaiting recovery The people who saw we were having problems came out of their houses and offered us cups of tea, chairs to sit on and even a Car! We were on our way to Deganwy to see family.
Rhyl is being regenerated with investment into the town.
I do a Power Walk from east to west Rhyl when in Wales.
Some cracking priced properties in Rhyl.
Some good retail parks in the Town too.
As for it being quiet it's the same in other Towns My Son says the same about Llandudno at night.
We've had a caravan in rhyl for nearly 14 years. Work is being done to improve the area but it can't be done over night. We love it here. Like you said the residents are friendly and will offer help. We have holidayed here for over 30 years hence why we bought a static caravan.
Hi Stephen, we used to take the kids to Rhyl late 70s early 80s it wasn't too bad then. My parents also took me and my late brother there too, had some great holidays there in the 60s. The old building there knocking down was once the Queens Hotel had live entertainment on years ago and was a quite nice place, big hotel too. The other old building that's B&M Bargains was Woolworths. Thanks for some good memories, I think I'd give it a swerve now.👍
Rhyl was nice to go to in the late 50s and 60, today it's a shit hole, plus it's been ring fenced,ie people come out of prison and put into Rhyl so they know where they are, I avoid the place like the black death ☠️ and Iive In prestayn , only 4 mies away!!
The councils for lots of seaside places need to be answerable for their actions and what we now see before us.Money minded councils for themselves and not the public sadly.I came to rhyl as a child and its deterioration is beyond belief.Thankyou for this video you are doing some really great interesting ones.
Hubby and I watch all your content about Blackpool (thank you so much for all you do.) We both grew up in Rhyl, moved away eleven years back. The town clock is leaning but was made safe, took them an age to finish. Our son and family still live there (not in the clock) 😂 The telephone exchange looked that bad even when it was used! The new police station is outside St Asaph. The sky tower was from the Glasgow Garden Festival, we used to think it was amazing. The fun fair was at the end of the prom and closed when we were there, it’s now a small retail park. Lots to tell you if you need more info.
Thanks for the info!
Love visiting Rhyl.I stay at Talacre drive up,park up then walk along the Promenade to the Marina then back into Town.That retail park gets busy!
Great improvements to the Town are ongoing.Plus there is a fab yarn shop! In the centre.
Grim… love it! 😄👍
Some parts are rough, the same I guess of any seaside town. As a whole, in the 10 years I've lived in the area it has improved a lot. I hope it continues this trend for another 10 years.
Drugs and Low-cost foreign holidays destroyed Rhyl. The problem continues on because the town is full of halfway houses for ex-prisoners and the vulnerable which has prolonged its status as a go-to for county lines dealers from Liverpool and Manchester. Seems a lot of towns in that part of North-East Wales have the same issues. The last time i went there i legit saw someone getting their door done in with the big red key and about 10 coppers flying in.
Rhyl......its no Blackpool!! Cheers Steve,safe journey 😆👍
Sadly Blackpool has deteriorated, not a place I would even consider for a weekend break. I remember Rhyl from the sixties and early seventies, we stayed on the caravan park in Towyn, it was so lovely then, the outdoor lido, the tower clock on the roundabout was sat in the beautifully landscaped promenade. I’ll never understand how places like this get so bad, have we completely lost all sense of civic pride. I live in Wigan and that’s gone to the dogs.
Don't think I'll be going to Rhyl in a hurry , good work Stephen
I miss Rhyl so much. Moved away two years ago. I'd like to point out a few things.
Firstly you've gone at a bad time. Nobody is going to be in the high street after the shops have closed.
Most of the buildings you showed are currently being demolished/redeveloped.
Dig deeper into Rhyl and the surrounding areas and you will find absolutely stunning views, nature reserves and places with amazing personality.
Rhyl gets a bad rap but there are so many places that are worse 😊
Is this Mike who used to work in Apolo and went to the North for the WWE PPVs? If it is then it's nice to know you're still around :)
@@hippychrisyt2127 Yeah that's me 😊
I remember when Rhyl was hit by an almighty storm a few years ago. Caused £2 million quids worth of improvements!
So sad to see what our governments and councils have allowed to happen to all these towns and cities over the years.
Social Engineering!
@@elizaphe58 You mean it was all planned?
I lived in Rhyl in the early 80's. I know some of it is run down but I still visit and have a love for the place. The B& M building used to be Woolworths. I remember Don Estelle singing there while he sold his music cassettes. Nice video. Thanks for your work.
We used to go there in the sixties and seventies and it was brilliant for us from the Midlands and we used to go in the library which was attached to the clocktower and it's really sad to see it now.
my Uncle used to to wind that clocks up manually and i starred in the local, “Little Theatre” as as Thespian, tea and coffee maker and Theatre set up, prop manager and fly box operator. I absolutely loved it. next week im off to blackpool to show the bad bits and not the good bits, Rhyl bites back. You missed the dragon bridge, asha’s Indian bar, rhyl’s 1891 and no Dr James missed his chance of being on television the Conservative pratt and the Town Quire has the best fish and chips ever in the whole of north wales! guarenteed!!!
Right back in 79/80 they built a Monorail Train track, from one end of the prom by Splash point
all the way up to the Harbour, with a Station, opposite the Clock tower, on the Prom, all of this 30ft up in the Air?
It was Only Open for a Year or Two, and then closed, after spending £m on it, took 5yrs, to demolish it, we used to go into the
Station, via a Stairs set, still Accessible, to climb up, Blue, Red, Green windows, all around the Station, concrete Pillars
Holding up the tracks, all the way up the Prom
❤🤴Another Awesome Video Stephen 💖😍Thanks For Showing Us Around Rhyl Beautiful Beach 🥰👍❤ 🏖🌊
I used to live in Rhyl when it was a lot of fun in the 1980s and a had a Saturday job at Woolworths, and after work off I went to enjoy the trampolines and Fun House at the old school funfair in my grey stockingfeet, ride the Mouse, Catterpillar, Dive Bomber, Dodgems, Big Dipper and many more amusements. Also swam in the Sun Centre sadly no longer here.
I live on the sea front, it’s probably not the best place to come on holiday but we love living here!
Rhyl has gone from Holiday town to Poor town. I hope it makes a come back.
The Town Hall clock does lean, i remember as a kid in about 1980 it was a "thing" in the local press but apart from being sandblasted clean i don't think anything was done. The road on which it stands is Wellington Rd, Russell Rd is further out. Like most GB seaside resorts Rhyl has seen better days & cheap flights to sunnier climes hasn't helped. It's an ok place to live.
Have many great memories of living and working in Rhyl during the mid to late 80s. To me it will always be great and much of Rhyl I re still looks the same especially the arcade on the front. They haven’t changed at all with the same signage. It is run down in certain places but I believe they are slowly spending money to improve things. They have improved the harbour area at the far end of the prom which looks great 👍
As someone who lived in Rhyl for two decades, your video was the first time I noticed the leaning tower of the town hall of Rhyl! Fascinating what you miss when you're used to it...
I have yet to see this video, but a few years ago I was passing through Rhyl, and what a dive. My grandmother lived in Rhyl and we as kids, in the fifties, onwards, spent some amazing times in Rhyl, then a sedate place, really sedate, and a fun fair that was just right size. At a weekend all the drunks and druggies going around, throughout the night, shouting and bawling, rubbish bins are sprawled everywhere. The funfair was torn down, looked like a bomb at hit it, and surrounding area.
If any of the "Teddy Boys" are still about who used to work the waltzers and the bumping cars back in the late 50s/early 60s...I'm that little 8/12 year old boy with an Elvis haircut and his jaw hanging down to his chest and eyes wide open watching every move you all made...I'm still in awe of you and i'm 72 now l.o.l....god bless you all
Rhyl used to be a gret place in the 60s/70s, but it has deteriated since then, I called in last year, whilst we were staying in Llandudno, which is a beautiful seaside resort, the beat in Wales, because the Mostyn Estates whot own Llandudno, makes sure that the buildings are kept pristeen and have a strict planning programme for any new buildings, to blend it with the ret of the achetecture.
I doubt Rhyl will ever get back to what it used to be, as it is so run down., it is too run down and developers wont invest in the place, because the lack of counil and government funding.
I agree Llandudno is lovely Rhyl is a dump
In 1958 my dad took us to Rhyl…my mum stayed at home she wouldn’t go..it was quite good,even though we weren’t allowed to go to the pleasure beach…
My parents used to take us on holiday to a B&B in the late sixties from Anglesey,went there in 1980 it was ok then. Went there in 1990 ,never again its an overspill of Liverpool.Best parts of Rhyl are the roads out.
Rhyl has a beautiful beach. I'ts a crying shame this town is lost to poverty.
I moved to Rhyl in the 70's from a small village called Bodelwyddan. Rhyl has gone down hill 😢. The clock, I think started leaning in the 80s. 2 wks ago there was metal frames around the clock, so maybe it's going to be fixed. You were right about telephone exchange and they have tidied up with benches and flowers. The buildings you have seen partly knocked down, have all gone. Sussex St where Weatherspoons is the market there has been knocked down. They should have started building but they ran out of money 😮. A lot of shops have gone from the high st as well 😢. You should come back to Rhyl and see for yourself. It's really sad. Blackpool. I love ❤. Rhyl take note!
I did a short video at the Ty Fry Inn at Bodelwyyddan last year.
I lived there as a child in the 1960s when it was magical. 😊
The Palace is the towns best arcade. That's where I used to work. I haven't seen this place since 99. It doesn't look like it's gone downhill honestly, it's lost some stuff but gained some stuff
the "Sky Tower" hasnt been in use for years. it used to have a viewing platform which would take you up to the top & rotate to give you views of the coast and beyond - i remember going on it as a child.
It used to be £1.50 to go up in it!
On a clear day you could see blackpool tower from up the sky tower x
Sad to see Rhyl like this, when I was a Young lad in the mid seventees, we used to go there for our holidays, and it was always jam packed, now it"s like a ghost town
Passing through one night and all you could hear were drunkards and junkies on the streets shouting, and litter, litter strewn the streets, and the back streets are appauling.
Well done Stephen. You have a nack of making even the dullest places look remotely inviting! I think if I went there, I'd stick to the promenade. Mr Blackpool spotted in Rhyl! Just goes to show, you can't go anywhere! Thanks for the video!
Went to Rhyl in 1986 as stayed in Prestatyn for 2 weeks and went on some of the rides they used to have at Ocean beach amusement park including the Runaway train powered coaster which was a bit like the Tokaydo express that was at Blackpool at the time
The telephone exchange is still in use but the grounds have now been cleaned up and used a community garden. Also you are not on the high street that’s Wellington Road. Please come back and film again I’d happily show you around
I loved Rhyl as a kid. We went for are holidays in the late 70s early 80s. As people are saying it was jam packed you couldn't even get a deckchair 🤣. I remember we used to stay on River Street. There was loads to do there from going on the rides and bumper boats, going to marina lake where you could go on the go carts and trampolining. And going to the Fjodlas I think it was called over a railway bridge. Shame to see it like this. Hopefully money will be invested in the right areas. Thanks for sharing 👍🏻
I heard horror stories about Rhyl, but it looks ok. Worth a visit me thinks, maybe Towyn too 🌞
Mark.... I wouldn't waste ya petrol, the Sealife Centre is good along with the beach but after that its a total no go!
I haven't been to Rhyl since 1998 but all i can say from watching this vlog is that it has gone completely downhill, it's quite worrying and disappointing also.
I love your Blackpool content so glad to see you in Rhyl in this video! Greetings from Scotland.
Ive only ever visted Rhyl once as a child to watch Blue Peter film thier beach road show on the seafront. I remember alot of shabby looking buildings way back early 1990s, i hope the council does something to improve the look of the town. Great video as usual
Queens arcade which is the buildings you showed being knocked down, used to be similar to the base of the Blackpool tower. Amazing ballroom, and also had had a Venice style river running in the basement that visitors could ride through on boats. Sadly Rhyl has seen better days, and I do feel the investment may be a case of "too little, too late", as it's reputation will have put generations of people off visiting again.
Hi Stephen thank you for another great video as wow some of that place was certainly run down such a shame take care xx
The town hall tower was leaning, Your eyes weren't deceiving you!😂, opened in the 1860's as of today major structural work was done on it and, its straight as a dye now..
Nice video. The place of my childhood holidays. It really hasn't changed much. My parents used to bring us here as kids in the late 60s / early 70s. We used to think that we were in a foreign country as we'd hear lots of people including children speaking in Welsh, which I loved. I recognise much of this. Thanks.
Thanks for watching.
I doubt the tower is leaning, its more likely a vertical distortion caused by the lens
I cant believe how quiet it is we have been heaving with tourists in norfolk since may
Thanks for uploading mr blackpool
I went to rhyl in the fifties and sixties,thought it was great for kids,....then In later years I thought....jeez give that place a miss...but the last couple of years its really poshed up...i really love a day out here now..i start off at kinmel Bay asda...then I'm off to the boardwalk...and promenade..i absolutely love it
It's changed beyond all recognition..its a best kept secret....as I've never heard any body else raving about it...
In the 1970's Rhyl had 3 theatres on the promenade. Absolutely bustling place. Sadly forign holidays led to the decline. The first building that you looked at with the B & M store was a Woolworth's 2 storey shop. The tower has been closed for a good 10 yrs and was going to be demolished until a petition kept it. It now lights up of a night in different colours. The building site was arcades with planning permission for town houses ro be erected.
It's such a shame to see Rhyl in such a derelict state, I know they're doing it up and they're trying their best, but it is a absolute sithole compared to what it used to be. I remember going on holidays with my mum and dad and they were fantastic holidays... Such a shame...
Hi Stephen what a fabulous video ,you did in Rhyl ,we went ,when we were kids happy ,times ,really picked our spirits up ,with our ,mum passing away ,on Friday,,it made us feel a lot better ,thank you ,keith and ,Jayne Liverpool ☆
The Palace arcade was my haunt back in the 90's!!!
I spent many days and evenings in there!
Getting demolished now, from last year not before time, it stunk of a cat's toilet, long over due, ps i live in prestayn, 4 miles away.
@@bernardrandles8013 No way! The Palace was the best thing about going to Rhyl!
I absolutely love Prestatyn. I've spent many a day there, and have some grerat friends who still live there!
Mr lister, your just a day visitor, so I'm afraid your out to touch with reality, rose tinted glasses glasses comes to mind!
Just a shadow of what it used to be,I have found memories of family days out here in the eighties.
Lee van cleef and Clint Eastwood would stay clear of this town .
Nah they’d love it.
Even the Seagulls go around in pairs 😁
we still have thousands of visitors every year blackpool has some very ugly places aswell it is what it is
Long time since I have been to there too video again.
Really was a good place to go 70s and 80s since then gone down in my opinion due to, The travelling work Dodgers who said to themselves might as well be unemployed at the seaside rather than elsewhere I’ve noticed this with Blackpool as well.
Haven't been back for over 2yrs, ( covid mainly ) we had a caravan in Towyn for years, not that bad, ( of a day ), afew dickheads, but some good folk as well, good spirit about.
They should never have closed down the sun centre what great memories
Pretty sure they have re-opened it.
Poor old Rhyl. It’s a shadow of its former self. We have fond memories of it and I hope the money being poured in helps it to recover. Thanks for your tour. 🍻
Very cool video👍
Keep it up
Whatever happened to Ritas award winning cafe restaurant, the funfair & the rising observation tower ! A fistful of shops & arcades is all that remains here ! Great vid .
Les and Rita's are still in business, Funfair closed in 2007, Sky Tower... No longer functional and a night lighting feature now... The only constant is change.
Love this video always wondered what it was like thre! Not great
Only ever visited once in 2013, it looks grimmer now than it did then. The B&M had the best beer selection I'd seen in any B&M😁
Used to sing in the clubs there years back, never was a great place. Looks like it has gone downhill somewhat over the years though.
Town hall definitely the highlight , what a beautiful building amongst the dross. Love your videos by the way.
I remember it well or some of it the obversion tower hasn’t worked in years and yes a nice beach 🏖 there used to be a funfair on the sea front but sadly that’s been gone a few years along with the sun centre thanks again for the memories Mr Blackpool 👍
I was in Rhyl on Sunday with the family. Parked the car and another family where letting there 4 year old have a poo against the wall. I do have a 4 year old and when they need to go they need to go. But when I returned to the car for the beach stuff 2 hours later the poo was still on the floor next to the bin 😂 wife said can we never come back please lol yes hun
OMG! 😱
I used to go in the 60's, with the St John's Ambulance Cadets, for our weekend, get together, thay would come from all over the place, and we would stay at the miners Holiday camp, there was no water in the pool, so they played football in it instead, there was a Derelict Funfair on the Pier, you could see the sea though the missing Bords, but they was building a new Funfair at the time, it had lovely sea front, there was a petrol station with a big Shark hung up out side, the camp had old wooden Chalets, that was the last time I visited Rhyl, many moons ago, but always had a good time,
That first shop you said was ugly. That use to be the house off Holland. 👍
Hi stephen,what you said what you could see was the great orme in the distance from rhyl prom,it was Anglesey.The derelict building was an indoor market,it is all being demolished.
Rhyl Airshow is fabulous was there in 2019 the place was heaving.
I moved into an apartment on West Parade looking out onto the sea in June 2019. I knew nothing about the airshow at the time, and got a heck of a surprise that weekend 😯
I used to enjoy it, so sad to see it all knocked down and demolished.
A like Rhyl, holidayed ere as a child and hung around we random mancs n scousers also on holiday.
Think prestatyn is growing more. Nice places
A fistful of Rhyl Mr C wowzers don’t think I’ve been! Quite interesting Stephen you master of travel top video
Excellent video well done
OMG! This is so sad to see it like this ,to be honest had a ride through on Sunday and my stomache turned,absolutely derelict.We always came to sunny Rhyl every year for a fortnight's holiday at the time we used to stay in a camp Robinsons next to Golden Gate,we would come the same weeks every year and we'would stay in caravan C69 with a parrot in the window "stuffed one". Now this used to be so busy infact absolutely packed from 1 camp to the next,and Rhyl well everybody used to be on top of one and other,like blooming ants,rockers and mods,kiss me quick,kiss me slowly hat's,candy floss,open swimming pool,arcades packed to high heaven,the main fair ground gone,it's just turning into a shopping centre. Well I suppose all generations change along with everything else,but my memories of holidays in Rhyl from the age are just the Happiest ever of my child hood,I was born 1959 I was around 8 when we started going on hols this went on til I was 15 along with my sisters,and we would walk for miles,but we were safe we felt safe,and the best of it I only lived nr wrexham. Happy happy memories
It's probably much nicer away from the centre. A bit like Blackpool.
Good video thanks 👍
Rhyl is still a place to look forward to visiting even if passing through. Nowadays though maybe it just needs some investment to give the seaside resort some special features and originality to complement nice nearby towns such as Prestatyn and Conwy.
Or flying over by plane.or better still stay away altogether.lol oj..
I Stephen it was nice to see Rhyl again love the channel
No Thai massage parlours in Rhyl then ?
The building on top off the b& ms use to be a cafe then gala bingo ,b& ms use to be Woolworth
Maybe the tower is straight and the other buildings are leaning, just a thought.
Rhyl as gone hill since they got rid of the fair i have seen on UA-cam what Rhyl was like in 60s and 70s it was a good place to go then it's a shame really i remember i it was the late 70s there was talk go around that they was going to make it as good as Blackpool i wonder what happened to that idea yes at one time it was a nice place to go with lots of things to do.
My grandad had a caravan there it seemed great as a kid
Why do people come to my town and ducking slag it down? Because they have nothing better to do. Rhyl is a lovely town and has major improvements going on so leave Rhyl alone or I’ll come slag your town down with pleasure
Its always been a bump Steven hasn't changed its seams to have got worse i felt depressed with prom walk boarding thanks for sharing 👍 👍
Since the fair as gone in Rhyl not much there now…
I remember as a kid on the front was a open air swimming pool..
I use to take my kids to Rhyl and stayed on Sunnyvale camp in a caravan
And then we stayed in Prestatyn Robin Hood camp…
I also loved towyn stayed in a caravan in wincups holiday camp
I love north Wales but it’s ashame not much left in Rhyl
Enjoy your stay if you are staying
Another good video and I have good memories as when I was a kid staying there in a caravan and my kids also loved it..
My son as just come back from towyn he stayed two weeks he came back on Saturday but caravans are expensive now
I was in haven camp in 2014 that’s called preset haven sands a brilliant camp for kids in Prestatyn
Yes I remember Sunnyvale and we used to stay at The Co-op Camp Kimnel Bay.
I love rhyl.
Les and Rita's chippy.
The Sussex. (Weatherspoons)
The sun centre.
The beach ⛱
Rhyl air show. Bloody great.