THE 1950s MUSEUM, Denbigh plus HARLEY'S GARAGE, Mold

[@oldclassiccarUK]

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[@bobspeller2225]

That was a fantastic museum and will be on my list to visit in 2024. Lots of things that trigger memories from my childhood, (many years ago) but great video. Thank you. Bob

[@roberttaylor6295]

That was a super way to spend an hour or so in front of the fire, though I struggled with the lap top sa my small dog insisted on knee space! Thank you. I regret that I haven't a car to visit some of the super places you visit, but your videos fill a very large gap i my life. Rob

[@keithjones7390]

I visited the museum with friends a couple of years ago. You could spend a day looking round and probably not see everything, loads to look at and a great variety of exhibits. Anybody who is interested in mid 20th century era would love this place.

[@stevedevlin3739]

Great place, been a few times over the last couple of years. Great old vehicles and many old household items

[@jonathangriffin1120]

Very interesting tour Rick, I saw our first 'telly' in a corner, a Murphy with the on/off switch built into the flap on the top, you pressed the gold casting with the Murphy logo to release the spring loaded flap, which switched the set on and the volume and channel selector knobs were underneath along with the speaker. If you're anywhere nearJ19 of the M5, Oakham Treasures just outside Portbury village is well worth a look.

[@davidanderson8407]

Thanks for a great video. I was struck by the fact that although the museum was packed full of exhibits ,very thing was dust free and cared for. Hoping to make it up to North Wales' in the next couple of years so will make a point of going to this amazing museum .

[@michaelkeen5010]

Travelled many miles in an ex-military Austin Loadstar 5 tonner. My father used it on bagged coal deliveries in East Kent and bought it from a dealer of very much secondhand commercial vehicles near Dover, I think they hand painted it in dark green and black before it was collected.

[@jeffking4176]

I had the “privilege “ of doing a 3 day Detail job on a Ural Motorcycle/sidecar. They are quite interesting. 2 wheel drive. And the design actually does go back to WW2. They really haven’t changed much. Great video. Lots of interesting stuff. I also loved the old radios. I have a nice collection of radios myself. A number of “Tube”[ valve] radios, wood cabinets, and Bakelite, as well as plastic cabinets. That round radio is really something . 📻🙂

[@keithmountain9437]

The design of the post-war Russian Ural/Dnieper motorcycle pre-dates WW2. During the period of the Hitler/Stalin pact in the late Thirties the Russians were permitted to construct machines of contemporary BMW design under licence. They were not, as is often asserted, built post-war from technical details derived from captured Wehrmacht military BMW and Zundapp motorcycles.

[@lawrence5117]

A very informative and entertaining video. Thanks

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mr_howahox]

My parents' first car was a Series II Morris Oxford, 303AFC in sandy beige. My dad bought it from a work colleague in the mid 1960s. Front bench seat and column gear lever. The trafficator control was in the centre of the steering wheel. I used to sit in the front navigating with the AA book and filling in my I-Spy Car Numbers book. Great video!

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Thanks for watching! I trust you've seen my references to the old I-Spy books in some of the show visit videos I've done :)

[@allanriches9381]

Lovely video. Great museum.

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Thanks Allan!

[@tonycox5625]

Still got one of those parking sidelights on a shelf in my garage, think my dad had it on his MK2 Cortina. I remember most of those toys, what an interesting place, great vid!

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Thanks Tony, yes I've one or three of those old lamps too about the place :)

[@darrylmcleman6456]

I like the rearview mirrors on the taxi built in Scotland.My grandparents on father"s side from Cromerty.CHEERS from Westcoast Canada!

[@jontaylor1652]

Great video, thanks. I love the Cowley and as you say, there aren't so many of them around these days. I guy who used to live close by to me bought an Indian taxi version a few years back but he's moved away now so I have no idea what happened to it.

[@tomday7309]

Well THAT was fun! What an amazing museum. Thanks for spending some time there and showing us around. I'll have to go back and hit pause a few hundred times to take it all in. I'm amazed such a place exists where the displays are out in the open and you can actually touch things. Here in the good old USA such a place would be cordoned off and everything placed behind glass in cases or far enough away from visitors that you would miss a lot of details. I for one vote for more of these smaller museums with local content. Thanks again Richard.

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Thanks, yes it's neat to be able to get up close to exhibits like this

[@MrEdJWilliams]

I grew up in Mold in the 1970s and remember Harley’s garage well. No matter what obscure part you needed for your old car Harley’s garage would definitely stock it. Mr Harley himself was a great person. I got speaking to him once when Harley’s were replacing a UJ on my old Imp before I attempted to drive back to university in it. He took a real interest in what I was doing and I remember his pride that his daughter had done well at university. The garage looks the same as I remember it from 40 years ago; a shame it’s looking unused now.

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Interesting, last time we visited it looked that maybe the premises behind were being used for something, but not the frontage near the main road

[@Carl-x8y3c]

Hi from Carl in NZ. Fantastic museum. Brought back memories for me. In our family home we had a bakerlite radio, it was cream in colour but I can't remember what make it was. We had a portable stereo record player in a suitcase style. It had a handle to carry it about . I used a Remington typewriter in my job in the 1970s when I worked in a film distribution company with cinema release films. I like the record display there , I liked the British pop music of the 1960s when I was young. Groups such as Herman's Hermits , Dave Clark Five , and of course the Beatles. Thanks for this interesting video.

[@oldclassiccarUK]

I remember mum having a huge old record player that could be carried around by its handle, maybe built by Bush, it's an interesting museum

[@Carl-x8y3c]

@oldclassiccarUK We had a black & white TV , it was a Pye brand. It had a big screen with the dials on the side. It had indoor aerials. The refrigerator we had in the kitchen was exactly like the one in the museum there. It had a lever that you pulled downwards to open the fridge door. We also had a formica dining table and chairs with chrome legs. And in the lounge we had a feature wall with ornament ducks flying on it just like what you saw in the museum. Very typical 1950s / 60s decor style.

[@stevo260]

Great video my good man, i was not aware of this lovely place, the first chance it get im there for a good look round, cheers

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Thanking you, definitely worth a visit and also to nearby Llangollen at the same time IMO

[@Vince_uk]

What a wonderful museum RJ and well worth putting on my bucket list. I was born in 1950 and there is literally not one thing in this video I cannot relate to in some way. My late mother had ducks on the wall for as long as I can remember. RJ, an excellent video. I agree today's kids should be exposed to places like this, they just don't realise how fortunate they are today and how entitled many have become. Oh ! The nostalgia and memories this has awakened in me, incredible. My 3rd great grandchild is due in January and my Grandson and his wife had decided that should it be a boy they were going to call him Harley would you believe however, it is a girl according to the scans etc. so she will be named Ava-Rose. There will be other opportunities in the future I think, I have 4 grandsons and a granddaughter (I started early). They already have a daughter Lola-Leigh and I have another great grandson Zac by my eldest grandson.

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Sounds like you;'ll be having a busy Christmas!!

[@dennisrobinson7587]

The fifties seemed to be a much simpler time.But I was a child in the fifties so I didn’t have to put up with the daily grind as my parents did.I had one of those Bayco building sets.

[@keithjones7390]

I grew up in the fifties too, one thing l remember is when l was about 5 or 6 going to a shop opposite to where we lived and if he was in a generous mood he'd buy me a 'matchbox' toy.

[@dennisrobinson7587]

@@keithjones7390 Me too .If I was good my mother would give me sixpence I would walk to the local newsagents where they kept the Matchbox toys in a cardboard box under the counter.They would pull the box out and let me sort through them to see which one I wanted.

[@KiwiStag74]

My friend, that couple of inches (some may call "a light dusting") of snow is still more than the city I live in gets in 60 years. It is so rare in fact that it makes the national evening news headlines. Polar vortices are a common wintry blast of Antarctican air that travels up over the South Island, but very rarely gets to the middle of the North Island, let alone two-thirds of the way up it. Occasionally there will be a vortex that is strong enough to get over the Cook Strait and hit the capital - Wellington - about once or twice every 5 years, but it fizzles back to a rain shower by the time it gets to Auckland. About once every 60 or so years, one is big enough to travel up the country, dumping phenomenal amounts of snow as it passes over the South Is., large amounts as it passes over the Cook Strait and the bottom of the north and makes the Ski Field operators very happy as it passes over the volcanic plateau in the middle of the North Island, as it heads up to where I am in the south of the largest city. Auckland will receive an inch or two on the top of a couple of the volcanic cones that are dotted around the city and - if we are fortunate enough - we may get to see an inch or so at ground level if we are over 20 metres above sea level. A friend of mine on a farm out in the hills (about 15 miles away) got a couple of inches and has a once-in-a-lifetime video of her kids playing in it, making small snowmen and such....while the best I got in my little seaside village was some particularly sticky sleet - another rare occurrence, nonetheless. It was a bit of a lottery for her kids though, as, being a farm, they do have farm animals and the chickens roam the yard around the house. Let's just say that the resultant snow-beings were "multicoloured" and leave it at that, eh? The last time we had a polar vortex strong enough to get snow up as far as Auckland was in August of 2011. As mentioned, it did get snow in a couple of southern Auckland areas and dusted a couple of inner city cones, but snow (or sleet) never made it past the city centre. To be honest, there was way more ground covered and to a thicker / heavier degree by a hail storm that went through the town of Whitianga - about 100 miles from here on the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula and where the rest of my family lives. I was visiting at the time and the hail wasn't very big, but there was lots of it and came down constantly for about 30 minutes. That was in mid-October this year and was on the Sunday following an unusually unseasonable hot and dry spell. An hour later, the skies were clear and there was a cold wind, but no sign of the weather bomb at all and it took most of the following day to melt the hail stones! Just weird.... Anyway, that's the weather report from New Zealand. I now return you to your regularly scheduled program...... Great video - loved all the memorabilia both at the museum and the 'Auld Homestead'....and what teenage boy doesn't like blasting about on his bike and controlling slides, eh? Your only young once and neither of us two could do that any more......not that I'd be keen to try either, just quietly! All the best.

[@yekateradiffin5939]

It's very similar to the bubble car museum

[@midlander4]

ASMR heaven

[@johndavey72]

Good evening Richard and a cool hi to Harley ! My parents ran a pub in Shaldon in the early 1960's . One of our locals was a newspaper reporter , Rodney Hallworth and one early evening he called in with his latest news item .....a certain Christine Keeler ! I was only 10 so l had no idea of the significance ! It's a small world ! Oh , and P.S My late M.D . owned the Lotus Cortina used in the robbery ! Cheers Gentlemen

[@Marleybgaming2108]

They put the rubber wings on the minors because they were used in the Welsh narrow lanes and the wings were getting dented in the narrow lanes so they put rubber ones on

[@richardsealey3626]

Actually it was to prevent damage to the vans in narrow city streets, and sorting office, and telephone exchange yards...............

[@darrylmcleman6456]

We have blackbears rummaging in trash bins instead of hibernating as the weather is unusually warm here in Sooke on Westcoast Vancouver Island! Great OCC Video! CHEERS from HERE!

[@chasleask8533]

Have all the polar bears opened sauna's?

[@darrylmcleman6456]

Polar bears further north in Alaska ! I think they winter in Hawaii!!!@@chasleask8533

[@colinmuddell9672]

Wonderful Aladdin's Cave! I can't help wondering if the relics of our current digital age will be as interesting in years to come. Somehow I doubt it................. You very nearly had a pedal scrape along the Honda's bodywork, courtesy of the Youthful Assistant!😀

[@alexmckenna1171]

You must be terribly young! Those records in the nice covers were shellac 78 rpm, not albums. :-) They were the main type during the 1950s, until they stopped making them in 1961, in the UK.

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Ah I was pretty sure the nicely illustrated covers on the wall were for 78s as I have a few here, and those on the other wall later 33s but I may have got it wrong while rambling and walking about :-) Thanks for watching (not very young at all!)

[@jmtubbs1639]

Issuing £2 fines for parking without sidelights was a regular money-raiser before speed cameras.

[@treborreltub1]

I was fined £12 in 1973 for parking at night without lights, in a cul-de-sac, on the wrong side of the road. The next month it became a £2 fixed penalty.

[@jmtubbs1639]

@@treborreltub1 £12! That would have been over a week's beer money.

[@colinp2238]

The Raleigh Runabout, I remember too well growing up in the 60s. A guy across the road having one from new. Before that, he had a BSA with a square petrol tank, so really old even back there. He was a guy in his 40s still living with his parents. I don't know if he did National Service. He didn't seem to be the sort that had served. We kids called him Billy Ada, but that wasn't his name. Billy because he was overweight and had those penny round glasses. Kids can be cruel.

[@daviddjerassi]

I loved the day out thank you did you get a coffee and a scon i hope you did thank you loved the video HAHAha a maniac but a very nice one..

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Thanks, yes I had a brew before setting off on the homeward voyage

[@rickhughes811]

Hi hat had a factory behind train station in Llandudno

[@keithjones7390]

Yes l remember the factory well, long gone now!

[@giulianomarco]

😁👍