The Railway Part 2
On Saturday 8th November 1952 the Chronicle newspaper carried a report with the headline.
Out-of-this-world - Padeswood
The article highlighted a campaign by the residents of the village, at that time around 80 in number, to improve the services provided. There was no electricity. The only telephone was at the station which was not available at night, the nearest public telephone was at either Buckley or Pontblyddyn some two miles away and they did not have a drinking water supply, all water was brought in cans, four times a day, from Mold station but only on weekdays.
The licensee of the Bridge Inn got his supplies from a farm pump - fetching it by car.
One of the villagers was quoted as saying " Every time we have an election we are promised light, water and telephones. But once our vote has been recorded the village slips back to its old self again"
(some things never change !!!!!)
A resident of Railway Terrace collects her cans of drinking water.
(Photograph Chris Dawson collection)
(Photographs Chris Dawson collection)