WPW018853 WALES. Connah's Quay, oblique aerial view. 5"x4" black and white glass plate negative.

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Title [WPW018853] Connah's Quay, oblique aerial view. 5"x4" black and white glass plate negative.
Reference WPW018853
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Link Coflein Archive Item 6378122
Place name
Parish
District
Country WALES
Easting / Northing 328800, 370700
Longitude / Latitude -3.0666931157756, 53.22828179496
National Grid Reference SJ288707

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Saturday 14th of July 2012 10:52:10 AM
Yes, a passenger train in the Up Slow line platform with a tender engine and 9 6-wheel coaches. Probably a workmen's service? Regular passenger trains would have had bogie stock by 1927, I think.

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User Comment Contributions

There are other photos from this flight that are dated as 1927. This fits with the 1927 date for Edward Morgan School, as Shottongal says

draig
Friday 7th of September 2012 02:56:21 AM
Shottongal, what date would you put on this photo? The shot clearly shows The Central Hotel, yet doesn't show The Central School on Rowley's Drive.

draig
Saturday 21st of July 2012 11:45:49 PM
Draig, I'd put the photo between March 1927 and Oct 1929. As you say the old Central School hasn't been built in the photo. The school opened in Oct 1929. However, you can see the RC school (Venerable Edward Morgan) now used for Social Services. That school was opened March 1927. If you, or anyone else can find out when the labour exchange was built that should pinpoint it. (Incidentally, my father [deceased] worked at the labour exchange in the early 1960s). Looks like the picture was taken in the summer. All the shops on Chester Road have the canopies out!

Shottongal
Saturday 21st of July 2012 11:45:49 PM
Image is taken looking East over Shotton. The main identifiers are the Chester to Holyhead railway line crossing the image from middle left to top right. The Wrexham to Bidston line crosses the image from middle right to top left. The River Dee is at the top of the picture.

Class31
Saturday 14th of July 2012 11:12:22 AM
I agree with Draig this is definitely Shotton looking North East. The Alhambra was built in 1919. I Used to go to Sat morning pictures there in the 60s. Shotton CP School (my primary school) can clearly be seen with St Ethelwold's C of E school next to it (now demolished, like the Alhambra).The double gabled building with the dark roof in the grounds of Shotton CP School is the old school dining room where we used to have school dinners there. I can also make out the Station Hotel (now The Clwyd) at the top of King Edward St (where I lived), Rivertown Church and The Central (now JD Wetherspoons). Fascinating picture. Note for Britain from Above: this is not Connah's Quay, it's Shotton. Please amend. Thanks.

Shottongal
Friday 29th of June 2012 11:11:19 PM
This is definately not Connah's Quay. It is the next town, Shotton. The building with the light roof is The Alhambra Cinema - demolished to make way for Tesco.



The building under constructionat the lower centre is the labour exchange - now Christchurch

draig
Tuesday 26th of June 2012 12:16:20 AM