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Re: Can you identify where this photo was taken?

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There could be 2 monuments
I think it matches that one in Ryhl High Street in that photo
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then it would be three as the military monument is in its own garden and nothing like an arch ?
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peterd wrote:then it would be three as the military monument is in its own garden and nothing like an arch ?


fiver on it it is Rhyl big guy!

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peterd wrote:dont think its rhyl as the momument is in the middle of the promenade and thats near shops

http://www.francisfrith.com/rhyl/photos ... 1867_2254/


where was your mother stationed at any way of finding out ?


I noticed that it seemed to be away from shops on the postcard and the Francis Frith but they are both from considerably before WW2 and it is possible that other shops had been built by then.
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I agree with peterd, a modern birds-eye view of Rhyll shows the monument at the end of High Street at the junction with the promenade and not likely to have been flanked by shops. The monumnet also does not look big enough to incorporate an arch..

Still trying to find out where she was stationed but not having much success. However, North Wales / Cheshire seems likely from a few remembered comments. As I said there are photos of friends and colleagues on the beach at Prestatyn.
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Northern Lass wrote:
peterd wrote:then it would be three as the military monument is in its own garden and nothing like an arch ?


fiver on it it is Rhyl big guy!

:wink:


send the five by post cash only no forged one please :lol: :lol:
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peterd wrote:dont think its rhyl as the momument is in the middle of the promenade and thats near shops

http://www.francisfrith.com/rhyl/photos ... 1867_2254/


where was your mother stationed at any way of finding out ?


From a different angle.

http://www.francisfrith.com/rhyl/photos ... 25_R27081/
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peterd wrote:
Northern Lass wrote:
peterd wrote:then it would be three as the military monument is in its own garden and nothing like an arch ?


fiver on it it is Rhyl big guy!

:wink:


send the five by post cash only no forged one please :lol: :lol:


Not so fast!
you have to prove it aint rhyl!
Then I will send you a fiver..... :roll:
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Where is it then!

and is that monument a drinking fountain behind them
do we know what it is?

deffo coastal as BW said

Could it be looking down from that monument towards High street!

anyone fancy a trip to Rhyl! :grin:
It is coastal
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On Google maps it is now a clock tower memorial, at the end of High St.
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This looks like the same Building on the left of the new clock tower.

http://www.francisfrith.com/rhyl/photos ... 55_R27237/
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anyone fancy a trip to Rhyl! :grin:
It is coastal[/quote]

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Jimmy wrote:On Google maps it is now a clock tower memorial, at the end of High St.


So is was that memorial in the same place that the clock tower now is?
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About the same area.
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