So close, yet so far. Not seen these streets for nearly 45 years. And they still for the most part look the same. Ahh, next time you find yourself wandering there, head up further into the estate (as you drove up Merlyn Avenue) and perhaps hit Cairndale Avenue (where I lived my teenage years) and the surrounding streets. The Google Street view of it looks so delapidated compared to my childhood memories. The Morrisons store off Ffordd Llanarth in that part of the estate was a Quick Save when my family finally moved away from Connah's Quay (around 1976) and the estate all to the west of that road was still being built, with the open, active building site extending up to around the Quick Save area at Machynlleth Way. Everything to the west of that was still open fields..Likewise most of the housing on the left and right of Golftyn Lane, as you drive down towards Connah's Quay High School from Morrisons( (Quick Save) didn't exist either, just fields. Basically I would walk to CQ High School, from Cairndale Avenue, across the green park area still there today at the end of Cairndale, then a track on the opposite of that 'mini park' through a gap in the hedge, across some fields (where all that newer housing now stands) which ended up on Golftyn Lane. A large amount of housing expansion since '76 then.
Down that way where Hawthorn meets Elm - you have an old farm called Willow farm, its still there and there was something there as far back as the 1877 map so its old - very old, outdates all of the houses on the estate and mold road etc.
I used to live on princess street upto 1975 when I moved to Stoke-On-Trent after being at college in Coventry where I met my wife Eileen and we have been married for 46 years. My mum and dad were Harold And Muriel Hughes and we lived at 43 princess street! Great memories from a great childhood!
Just up from the graveyard there use to be an estate of post WW2 prefabs 0 I remember the folk never wanted to leave them to make room for the then-new estate
Any history to add to my videos Trev please go ahead, the more the better as it educates us who were too young to know and adds a bit to local history knowledge.
@@Memory_Gatherers When you turn on to Mold rd and turn round at a dead end there were large water reservoirs and pump houses, and a dissused railway - several brick works and further down Princes Quarry
@@trevortrevortsr2 I’ll try and revisit some areas eventually when I have better cameras. The little akaso I did these on was only like £30 on Amazon and did it’s best. Audio on it though is appalling. Better to add audio later on that one. The apeman a79 is better but still not superb.
This is 1 of my favourite Drive about vids of yours that you have done so far...Great content of our hometown streets...👍🏻
So close, yet so far. Not seen these streets for nearly 45 years. And they still for the most part look the same. Ahh, next time you find yourself wandering there, head up further into the estate (as you drove up Merlyn Avenue) and perhaps hit Cairndale Avenue (where I lived my teenage years) and the surrounding streets. The Google Street view of it looks so delapidated compared to my childhood memories.
The Morrisons store off Ffordd Llanarth in that part of the estate was a Quick Save when my family finally moved away from Connah's Quay (around 1976) and the estate all to the west of that road was still being built, with the open, active building site extending up to around the Quick Save area at Machynlleth Way. Everything to the west of that was still open fields..Likewise most of the housing on the left and right of Golftyn Lane, as you drive down towards Connah's Quay High School from Morrisons( (Quick Save) didn't exist either, just fields. Basically I would walk to CQ High School, from Cairndale Avenue, across the green park area still there today at the end of Cairndale, then a track on the opposite of that 'mini park' through a gap in the hedge, across some fields (where all that newer housing now stands) which ended up on Golftyn Lane. A large amount of housing expansion since '76 then.
Down that way where Hawthorn meets Elm - you have an old farm called Willow farm, its still there and there was something there as far back as the 1877 map so its old - very old, outdates all of the houses on the estate and mold road etc.
I used to live on princess street upto 1975 when I moved to Stoke-On-Trent after being at college in Coventry where I met my wife Eileen and we have been married for 46 years. My mum and dad were Harold And Muriel Hughes and we lived at 43 princess street! Great memories from a great childhood!
@@TheHughes56 oh wow I live on that exact street, what are the chances
Just up from the graveyard there use to be an estate of post WW2 prefabs 0 I remember the folk never wanted to leave them to make room for the then-new estate
Any history to add to my videos Trev please go ahead, the more the better as it educates us who were too young to know and adds a bit to local history knowledge.
@@Memory_Gatherers When you turn on to Mold rd and turn round at a dead end there were large water reservoirs and pump houses, and a dissused railway - several brick works and further down Princes Quarry
@@trevortrevortsr2 I’ll try and revisit some areas eventually when I have better cameras. The little akaso I did these on was only like £30 on Amazon and did it’s best. Audio on it though is appalling. Better to add audio later on that one. The apeman a79 is better but still not superb.
I live somewhere in this video