Flintshire Memories: 25 years ago this week

By Flintshire Chronicle on Mar 27, 09 10:08 AM in 1900-1999

FORMER Liverpool boss Bob Paisley, pictured, was the guest at the British Aerospace apprentice prize night.

LOCAL residents opposed plans to construct a weighbridge in Mold Road, Ewloe.

PLANS to include shops units in the remodelled Deeside Leisure Centre were expected to be rejected by Alyn and Deeside Council.

A NEW £1,500 chair lift was installed at the Citizens Advice Bureau in Shotton.

THE Flintshire executive of the National Farmers' Union feared the closure of the Welsh Water Authority offices in Mold could hit land drainage work.

SYCHDYN parents were furious that a much- needed extension to the village primary school was to be further delayed, possibly by as much as two years.

AN application for late-night drinking at Mold during the week of the Urdd National Eisteddfod was rejected by local magistrates after objections from the police.

MINERS at Point of Ayr colliery continued to defy flying pickets from the South Wales coalfield, and it remained the only pit working in the Principality.

PENSIONERS were pressing for an intercom system at flats in Pen-yLlan, Connah's Quay.

ALYN and Deeside Council approved a plan to build nine two-bedroomed houses on land in Station Road, Sandycroft.

GWERNYMYNYDD Village Centre management committee started planning its annual May Fair.

A THIEF smashed a shop window in Mold and grabbed a charity bottle containing cash for the local hospital league of friends.

MOLD police warned local pensioners about two teenage conmen who tried to trick a Gwernaffield pensioner into paying them £30 for sharpening a knife.

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