Flintshire Memories: It happened 30 years ago this week

By Flintshire Chronicle on Sep 5, 09 11:05 AM in 1900-1999

A LONG-STANDING feud between up to 70 Blacon and Broughton youths escalated into violent confrontation which brought traffic to a halt outside the British Aerospace factory. Dozens of police officers were drafted in to end the disturbances.

A LONDON-BASED recruitment agency representing a top South African steel company launched an advertising campaign in Deeside aimed at attracting Shotton steel men to a new life working at a huge iron and steel plant near Johannesburg.

FLINT Royal British Legion Gardening Club held its third annual Flower, Fruit and Vegetable Show with record entries from young and old.

A GROUP of young Mold men gave up alcohol for a month in aid of the Mold Hospital Appeal Fund. As well as giving their livers a break, the men were sponsored for every pound in weight they lost.

CONNAH'S Quay Junior Cricket team were champions of the Flintshire Junior League. Runners-up the previous year, the team went one better in 1979 and ended the season with an unbeaten record.

MOLD Rugby Club's new £40,000 clubhouse took a major step forward as work started on installing the framework and prefabricated sections.

THEATR Clwyd's centrepiece of the autumn season was two major plays, Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra and George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, which cost a record £44,000 to stage.

NATIONAL concerns about the poor level of numeracy among school leavers prompted Clwyd Education Authority to appoint former lecturer George Barber to be its first ever adviser/inspector of mathematics.

ASPIRING beauty queens from Point of Ayr Colliery families lined up with girls from other North Wales pit families in a bid to qualify for the Coal Queen of Britain title.

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