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Holywell in past years

A glimpse at a town which is famed as being the "Lourdes of Wales".

Iolo Griffiths

Iolo Griffiths

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Holywell in past years

Holywell High School students were gripped by US election fever in the late 1980s as they followed George Bush Snr’s bid for the White House.

Pupils study at Holywell's Welsh school
J Kerfoot Roberts admires a snuff box gift presented to him after opening Holywell Cottage Hospital's new outpatients department
Ernest Edgley beside his Corn Mill monument in Holywell in 1967
St Winifredes station, Holywell, pictured in 1913. This station, on a short branch off the main line, served the workers at the local mills and the visitors to St Winifrede's Well, which was a place of pilgrimage since the 12th century. This station closed in 1954

St Winefride's Well Shrine in Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, 28th December 1948.
A typical Holywell Street scene from the 1960s

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