St. Mary's Convent School For Girls (Rhyl)

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St. Mary's Convent School For Girls (Rhyl)
Russell Road, Rhyl, Denbighshire

Badge as depicted in Bunty #26 [12 Jul 1958]

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St Mary's Convent School was founded in 1900 at Bryntirion Hall, Russell Road, Rhyl. The school was linked to a convent in Namur, Belgium, and some of the nuns were Belgian. After much of Belgium was occupied by Germany in the First World War, the nuns arranged for refugees to come to Rhyl. The school closed in 1957 and was demolished in 1971 to make way for the present housing estate, St Mary's Court.
[See: https://historypoints.org/index.php?page=site-of-st-marys-convent-school-rhyl ]

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1968 OS map showing the location of the school
(Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland)

The school building c.1910

Two videos on YouTube show photographs of the school;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_AYEYxw9cY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt3h-Np8QKI