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4 unusual facts about Connah's Quay


Connah's Quay

The major part of Tata Steelworks is also on the town's border on the north bank of the River Dee.

Many of the town's residents are employed at the nearby Deeside Industrial Estate, located on the north side of the Dee, and is the location of a second power station, Tata Steelworks, Toyota, Wales Rally GB and the central headquarters of the Iceland chain of supermarkets.

Schools in Connah's Quay include Connah's Quay High School, Bryn Deva Primary, Wepre Primary, Brookfield Primary and Golftyn Primary.

Mostly they caught fluke, which would then be sold from barrows pushed around the housing estates.


Connah's Quay High School

When Prince Andrew, Duke of York visited the school to declare the new block officially open, the opening ceremony was interrupted by a fire alarm caused by a hot tea urn.

Dee Estuary

Notable among these are Shotton Steel, formerly owned by John Summers & Sons, and now owned by Tata Steel; the gas fired power station at Connah's Quay; three separate paper mills; a chemical manufacturing plant; and numerous smaller manufacturing industries.

Dunmurry train explosion

The two damaged carriages were transported to Queen's Quay in Belfast for forensic examination and were subsequently rebuilt.

Parkgate, Cheshire

The silting of the Dee has been accelerated by the deliberate introduction of the invasive colonising grass Spartina anglica in Connah's Quay in 1928, resulting in the growth of extensive marshlands.

Pool's Island, Newfoundland and Labrador

The growth of Pool's Island eventually led to the growth of communities surrounding it, such as Valleyfield and Badger's Quay.

Queen's Quay, Belfast

The first train from the station ran on 2 August 1848 to Holywood, with services eventually extending as far as Castlewellan, Downpatrick, Newcastle and the fishing village of Ardglass.

Redpath Sugar Refinery

The building is located just east of downtown at the foot of Jarvis Street at Queen's Quay.

St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School, Flint

It draws its pupils and students from the Roman Catholic parishes of Flint, Holywell, Queensferry, Mold, Saltney, Buckley, Connah's Quay, Hawarden and Pantasaph.


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