I enjoyed reading about Hope Street, images between 1904 and 1919.

Do you remember Gay Cards that grand little shop on Hope Street?

I say little, it was very deceiving really, more like the Tardis when you walked in.

On the ground floor there were cards for all occasions, stationery, picture postcards of Wrexham and North Wales, sweets, chocolates, cigarettes, cigars, lighters, pipes, tobacco and accessories.

On the walls going up the stairs to the first floor we had a little art gallery, beautiful pictures of which we sold many.

On the first floor we had 18th and 21st birthday cards, single boxed cards, table candles, altar candles, novelties for weddings, paper napkins, paper table cloths, doilies, cake decorations, cake boards, cake pillars, lovely tops for wedding cakes, cake colourings, cake candles and holders, party hats, wrapping paper and gift cards for all occasions, invitations and reply cards for all occasions and wedding stationery for those who wished them specially printed.

Have I forgotten anything?

Goodness me! All this and not to mention the extra stock we had in for Christmas.

On April 7th it will be 45 years since the shop collapsed.

I often think of the staff who worked there, especially the ones caught up in the happenings on that horrific morning, myself included.

Where ever you are girls I hope you have managed to push the horror of that day away and I hope you have had a very happy and healthy life.

Sadly some of the staff have passed away since but to mention two very dear friends, Nell and Audrey. God Bless you both.

Such a sad end to a much loved business from the days Wrexham was a buy bustling little market town.

How sad to see Wrexham now it has become a ghost town.

P. DAVIES