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2 unusual facts about Connah's Quay High School


Connah's Quay

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

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.


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.

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

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.

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.

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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