Victoria Pier, Colwyn Bay in the 1950s

This is what we know so far of the history of Victoria Pier during the 1950s.

If you have any old Show Programmes, Photographs, Film, Newspapers etc. featuring the Pier you could to donate to our archive collection, please get in touch or send them to the Pier - address here

	Mon 23rd January 1950	7.15pm BOXING Bout 1. JOHNNY RICHIE (Rhyl) -V- BERNEY REYNOLDS (Blackpool) Bout 2. TOMMY ROWE (Dublin) -V- JIMMY O'NEIL (Salford) Bout 3. TOMMY DALY (Hamilton) -V- BILLIE PRICE (Conway) Bout 4. ROY THOMAS (Liverpool) -V- KIN FRANCIS (Gold Coast) Bout 5. BERNIE KID CHOCOLATE (Gold Coast) -V- JOE McCARDLE (Chester) Bout 6. WALT BROMLOW (Harwich) -V- ERNIE PRICE (Conway) Programme kindly donated by ERNIE PRICE
	Wed 15th to Sat 18th February 1950	at 7.30pm daily (Saturday matinee at 2.30pm) Mochdre Children's Pantomime) Cast of 70 children RED RIDING HOOD Programme kindly donated by ERNIE PRICE

	2nd June 1953	Coronation Day of Queen Elizabeth II. Since few people owned television sets, 600 children and and parents packed the Pier Pavilion to watch the Coronation Ceremony projected onto two screens. Viewed from the pier deck, "God Bless our Queen. Long May She Rein" was set out in flowers on the sloping railway embankment that shelters the promenade from the Town.