Flintshire Memories: 25 years ago this week

By Flintshire Chronicle on May 1, 09 12:16 PM in 1900-1999

THE National Association of Local Councils backed the campaign by Cllr Karin Davies, pictured, of Holywell, to persuade the government to increase the control of air rifles and air pistols.

DELYN Borough Council received an application for planning permission to develop the site of a petrol filling station in Wrexham Road, Mold.

MOLD Hospital League of Friends held a jumble sale at the Daniel Owen Centre which raised £40.

DEESIDE firemen were called to deal with a patch of blazing grass in Normanby Drive, Connah's Quay.

AN old time musical hall concert was held at Woodside Community Centre, in Ewloe.

DELYN Council shelved a £35,000 plan to sweep the chimneys of 3,500 council houses.

THE Alun High School, Mold, joined in the National Anti-Smoking Campaign, and students put up posters showing the dangers of lighting up.

HOLYWELL Town Council decided to improve the lighting at Nant-y-Coed.

YOUNGSTERS were thought to have caused a blaze which destroyed a contractor's caravan on a building site in Broughton.

DEESIDE Round Table donated £1,000 to a minibus appeal at the Glanrafon Adult Training Centre, Queensferry.

A CHARITY clay pigeon shoot was held at Maes Mynnan quarry, Caerwys.

MOLD peace campaigners were to link with others throughout Clwyd and the Wirral in a motorcade to the US Air Force base at Burtonwood, near Warrington.

THEATR Clwyd staged the Alan Bleasdale comedy Having a Ball.

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