We are pleased to say that we are restarting our monthly meetings this September after an absence of over two years due to the Covid Pandemic. Our new venue is the rehearsal room at The Little Theatre. Due to a small hitch we will meet on the second Tuesday of the month for the remainder of 2022 and will revert to our usual Monday meetings from January 2023. We start at 7.30pm.
Rhyl Little Theatre
17 Vale Road
Rhyl
Denbighshire
LL18 2BS
There is plenty of parking nearby, some at the theatre itself and also at Morrisons and Matalan.
We have a guest speaker at each meeting with the exception of December, when we have a Christmas lunch, and May when we usually plan an evening visit in the locality. The March meeting includes our AGM.
Membership for the year costs £10, or “pay as you go” on the night is £3. We have a modest raffle at each meeting.
A Summer outing is organised for June. Previous trips include the Anderton Boat Lift, The Liverpool Museums, Plas Newydd Llangollen and Llanystymdwy.
The club was founded in 1982 by J.W. Owen, A.R Evans and R. Pickering, the first president was Gwynedd Parry. The first meeting was held in the October at the The Grange Hotel. To celebrate our 25th Anniversary a bench with engraved plaque was presented by the club to Rhyl Library.
New members will be warmly welcomed.
Contacts:
President: Mr Jim Owen
Chair: Colin Blythin
Secretary: Maggi Blythin
Programme Secretary: Mr Rufus Adams
Treasurer: Mrs Angela Ross
Website Editor: Ruth Pritchard
email: rhylhistoryclub@gmail.com
http://www.rhylhistoryclub.wordpress.com
Telephone Contact: 01745 591281/354593
In 2002 Rhyl History Club obtained a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund for a Digital Archive. The archive serves as record of Rhyl’s cultural heritage.
We have over 750 photographs and postcards scanned into our archive, images that might otherwise have been lost forever.
We take the archive into the community by presenting “Slide Shows” – showing the photographs on a large screen via a digital projector (kindly loaned to us by Rhyl Community Agency). We put these shows on at community events and residential/nursing homes, we also hope in the future to show them to youngsters to encourage them to learn about the history of Rhyl.
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