Crosville buses from Denbigh, Prestatyn, Rhyl, and beyond

The Crosville Motor Company - made combining the names of founders George Crosland Taylor and Georges de Ville - started in Chester in 1906.

Initially the pair planned to build cars but their first bus service was running in 1909. They would go on to cover North and Mid Wales, and the North West.

They had many depots across the region, including Wrexham, Mold, Flint, Denbigh, Chester and Ellesmere Port - heading to destinations like Rhyl, Prestatyn and Talacre.

Sharing several of the images, courtesy of the Elvet Pierce collection, people  have sharedtheir memories of the iconic transport...

David Kelly shared this photo: "This was the bus I used to use around 1970, Pandy hasn't had a decent bus service since."

Kenneth Tarran: "I remember the single decker on the route from Chester to Mold, B3 I think.

"They used to go up the old Warren from Broughton to Dobshill and then up the Dirty Mile to Buckley, just about crawling up both hills.

"The double deckers went through Drury to Buckley because of the railway bridge at the bottom of the Dirty Mile."

John Sylvester: "I started at Crosville when all these buses were around I was a conductor first then got my PSV licence all at Wrexham depot."

Brian Jauncey: "Etched in my memory, crash gear boxes, hand signals the lot."

Les Parry: "I travelled daily on one of these from Caergwrle Police Station to Wrexham in the 60s."

David Griffiths: "From memory the single deckers had a heater in the front and my mother used to tell me not to touch it because you will get burnt fingers.

"Well I did touch it and yes I got burnt fingers, I never done it again though."

"If the E3 Pandy bus wasn't running the alternative was the D1 and get off by Gresford Colliery," said David Kelly, using this photo.

Mair Jones: "Used to go on the one to Mold and then one to Bodfari to visit family in the 50s."

Steven Williams: "We used to catch the bus from Penycae to Watery Road and walk past the leather works to the old baths by the Nags Head, and we were only about 10-years-old, happy times."

David Alan Parry: "Two single deckers used to carry us home from the Burtons, going east and west through Gresford, Rossett...one side Gwersyllt, Cefn y Bedd, apex of movement before returning to Llay Wrexham.

"You had to decide on entry to purchase a bus ticket to enable them to organise the second bus."

Dave Nutman: "I love these buses beautiful and for their day quick."

Damon Crute: "Too many memories come flooding back. Those heavy winter drivers' coats with yellow piping and white cuffs.

"Happy circling around along King Street, constant watering cans filling radiators and all the colours of the many independent operators."

Bill Hughes: "Great buses, always wanted to drive one. Wonder where they are now."

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