This week we visited Lowe Court and collected these memories.
My favourite shop was Richards I always used to go to buy my cigarettes and tobacco from there.
My favourite pubs as a lad where the Bucks Head, the Cock Hotel and the Barley Mow.
As a child I had my picture taken with Johnny Hancocks and Billy Wright the footballers at the Forest Glen!
I used to go and play snooker at the YMCA youth club as a teenager.
I remember there used to be a police officer in a white box directing the traffic round the island be the Cock Hotel and The Swan, of course they moved The Swan round in the late sixties for the new road layout.
Where Greggs is now used to be The Lamb public house there always used to be fighting in there once I saw a chair thrown through the window.
I used to go to Flamingos every Saturday night for the dances.
When I was a teenager we always went to Jarvis’s as we could never afford the prices in Sidoli’s.
My aunty used to own the pub the Hand and Heart I remember sitting in the bar as a child visiting her.
Carrefour was the first supermarket to open in the area in the 1970’s it was the first of many big changes in the area.
My Grandad used to own a small farm on the outskirts of Wellington as a lad I used to help him take the cows and pigs down to the cattle market.
As a child my favourite shop used to be at the top of new street and sold model aeroplanes, I cant remember what it was called….
When Flamingos closed it reopening as Barrons, it was expensive but they had good disco’s it used to open 10pm to 2am
On a Saturday night I used to go to the Three Crowns and then the Majestic, there always used to be loads of squadies in there, and the night normally ended with them fighting over a girl!
The Charlton had a lovely Dance Floor we used to go there for the posh dinner dances.
I remember going to the Emerald Club, the used to have dances and comedians.
Tony Heaths used to be a nice Café and Bakery, when they built the Town House I went and saw Chuck Berry there, it was brilliant!! It cost 10 shillings!
My mom used to pay with the Rechabites subscription every week so we could get……., don’t know if we ever used it!
I remember Lilly Corbett the Cat woman, she used to feed all the cats in the town scraps.
I moved from Corwen to Wellington, I was always attracted to Wellington as we went through on the train, I liked the shops, the market and all the walks, I was so happy to move here.