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He is back atm so sharing my apple today :D

Maybe they are gonna team up 🐱🐱

nice to drop these for people who have left to look back on, quite a few changes in last 30 years though. many housing estates where farms were before.

Going there again soon so try and get some footage

Barmouth close up by kwiks , Morrisons nowadays, my nan was in St Marks avenue but moved to Dodds drive about 87. One blessing of cali is that it’s likely not been raining daily for 12 months like it has in the quay :D - oh hammersound finally closed but hot stuff is still going

I am glad you liked it, I haven’t been out lately as had tonnes on but will be out again soon and there are quite a few local videos on my channel. I started this up as noone was doing anything local and thought people might find it interesting.

@@Memory_Gatherers thank you. I wish I could find photos of the houses in Dock Road where my family had lived since 1902. I cannot believe how many houses have been built in the Quay! We live in Lancashire but came back to the Quay 1972-78 and lived off the top of Normanby Drive, before the houses on Broad oak farm were built. Still have cousins in the Quay. My cousin Ken Roberts was captain of the Connah’s Quay cricket team for a number of years. I look forward to watching more of your videos.

Nice spot that mate, I’d never have seen that. Hopefully have five mins for a wander soon. Better weather too, cameras don’t like rain. ☔️ and it’s been monsoon for ages.

we dove on that mate for a few gos :)

@@Memory_Gatherers good on you! 👍😀

I know Cable court, when I was a kid it didn't exist there was a bit of a hill there with a wooden hut on the top and I used to go there to play group (like 1978/9) and the old age pensioners used to go there, the bank was next door going up the hill and going down the hill was the 8 ball - Pool hall. The bank got converted to housing in about 1980 ish but the old bank vault was still in there at the time as we knew someone who moved in there. not sure if its been taken out by now. the pool hall was demolished and the bethel place flats slapped up and Jehovah witness kingdom hall was around the back (that's accommodation now iirc). then later the hill was levelled and the Cable court bit built - before that it was just cable street. a bit up the hill was railway terrace and the old Buckley line used to go down to the docks and up right past them houses and up to Buckley carrying cargo from the docks. that died off in the late 50s early 60s and for years there were still bits of carriages around on the docks and a few lines. there was a train wagon repair place up until the 90s. I dont think there are any wagons left on the docks now and I dont think there are any of the old clinkerbuilt boats now (used to be dozens) and the netted salmon fishing seems to have long gone now as well - still doing that in the 90s. its changed a fair bit around here and Im just trying to capture it as it is now before it changes again cos noone films here, I guess most film in manchester and london and what have you but maybe the vids I do will in 50 years be of interest to someone. Liverpool btw is a great city to film, dead interesting and some dead nice people there. type of place you ask someone for directions and they grab you and say come with me love Ill show you.

life chaos atm but hopefully back to normal soon and be getting around again, trying to drop a few Ive recorded already but they take about 2 hours to render then 2 hours to upload and Im getting about 30 mins to myself a day lols so trying :D

I try and capture these places because no one else seems to be doing it or at least weren’t. I kind of hope that maybe one day these will be looked back upon and folks may say wow look how it used to be….maybe :) I do film in known places too but not many people in Italy are likely to have heard of Connahs Quay lol.

Great to have a local drop some info Betty, I’m just grabbing memories for the future for people to look back on mainly and it’s great to have more history. I’m hoping in like 25 years people will look back and say… remember this or that :)

@@Memory_Gatherers I’m an Author, now living in Australia. I spent the first 21 years of my life in Birkenhead before emigrating. It’s funny, as the majority of us who lived in the central area of Birkenhead thought of ‘Cheshire: Hoylake, Raby Mere, Port Sunlight, Heswall, Thingwall etc, as far away places. I now know they are all within a bus ride away, but to us back then, they may well have been the other side of the UK, such was our own little conclave! We lived, Shopped, went to school, all in a 2 mile radius. Apart from once a year, all 8 of us would get the train to Liverpool just before Christmas, and go to LEWIS’S or BLACKLES Christmas Grottos. Here we would go to the top floor ‘Cafe’ (the only time we ever went in one!!) and Mum would by 3 Egg & Chips and divide them between all eight of us. At one stage, earlier in the 20th Century, Conway Street Secondary School would have both Boys & Girls, but when I went there in 1963, it was all Girls, although there were still 2 entry gates at the rear: “BOYS” and “GIRLS” inscribed above. The mangled crest you mentioned was The School Crest, and the Uniform Jumpers had them on. I can tell you so much more, as I’m an Author with a great long term memory! trishollman84@gmail.com

@@Dishy.Trish1 I’m not the most prolific videographer on TH-cam but I enjoy filming stuff for future generations and it’s amazing when you have someone chip in with local knowledge. I travel to the Wirral daily for work and pass through Neston, Heswall, Upton and I go into Liverpool a fair few times a year as it’s close and I love the city. I’ll have to root on the channel as I’ll have more Wirral, Liverpool etc and I did one down the dock by the old tunnel air towers at the waters edge on here somewhere too. This one was Liverpool about 2-3 years back - th-cam.com/video/CAvV1eizA50/w-d-xo.htmlsi=rpXlPPYy57twn6SY

It was a council housing office for god knows how long until a few years ago

How amazingly kind, dont worry I have only started the monetization process as if I ever reach 1000 subs youtube give you something like 4p per video haha (considering this channel started in 2006 - I doubt Ill be rich anytime soon). the superchat is an added bonus thing, i dont think You tube have finished setting it up for us yet and to be honest,we dont expect anything from anyone - just the fact you watch the videos is smashing as I think if people watch them then you tube shows it to more people who find them interesting. at least I think thats how it works :D - I am far from a YT expert even after 18 years haha.

glad you like it, I am never to sure if drives or walks/ music or chat are more favourable as everyone seems to like something different so we drop a few different types. I think a drive is my most watched video along with a walk around Rhyl funnily enough. Must head back to Rhyl again soon to see how it has changed in recent months.

Yes it was an earlier delivery when coming from Warrington for some Reason.

I’ll have some day time ones in here too I get lost these days as down so many videos, on way to 400 now.

Thank you so much 😊

Probably cos it’s so tiny :D I think the whole UK is about as big as Oregon :D …ish Wales where I live is almost 7 times smaller than New York State alone :D

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no its my friends, I called round to give him some fuss (the cat that is lol)

Thank you, it was just a little wander about - Ive just done one in chester Ill have to get uploaded but not long back in - 22:46pm

hey thanks for watching bro :)

thats it mate and straight where I nabbed it from, I love Hannah especially, too long a winter <3

@@Memory_Gatherers Yes, love Hannah too. loved the too long a winter. 🙂

Glad you enjoyed it Thomas, I fancy another wander about Chester soon when it’s not -4 or raining :)

There are a few Chester ones on here hope you enjoy, we are not professionals just wander about with a camera :)

Need to get some more done just feeling a bit crap lately. Be back at it soon. Weather a bit naff at the moment as well. Snowing raining or wind chucking trees round :)

@@Memory_Gatherers ...This weather is Brilliant for the vids tbh especially strong winds and angry skys as it gives off a more potent energy...I understand the Rain won't be ideal if your out on foot for obvious reasons but if your in the car with an internal camera then theres no problem... I think bad weather brings out the characteristics of the area when things can get turbulent especially in the Quay!!! Plus it makes you appreciate the summers more when they arrive... @ least we can breathe in this weather and the air is fresh which makes it much easier to.sleep @ night plus we can wrap up warm as well... always see the positive Andy...

I would live there tomorrow, we stay in Reiff but I’ve lost 8TB of footage so hopefully recover some of that when can from my ropey drive. If I ever make it big on TH-cam (which won’t lol) I’ll be buying a summer isle area home…and a land rover :D

@@Memory_Gatherers Yeah I know exactly where you are as in Reiff. We used to rent the port beag chalets. fantastic place . You try the little sandy beach going past Reiff? It's a gem of a beach golden fine sand with turqouise blue water❤. we also used to rent a house just before Reiff can't remember of the top of my head the name of it (hill top House🤔). But it sits up high on the right as you head to Reiff.. The furan bar is pretty good for the odd drink or four🤣. spent many a night in there with alot of the locals. I have a couple of vids on youtube. which was from a few years back. I have rented a house in Ullapool this year so will pop up to the summer isles as i love it there

Haha I hadn’t thought about that :D I wouldn’t leave my car there overnight though I’ve seen that water really deep there.

Hello there - I am happy that you enjoyed the video. I have done many on the channel so please have a look to see if any others are good for you. I did one of the outside of the college during lockdown (covid) but I cant find it now however it was on an old camera so not too good anyway.