MANY of us like to think back to the 'good old days' from time to time.

Memories of playing football in the park and swinging from the trees and rolling around in the grass will come flooding back for all of us.

We recently offered our readers a sense of nostalgia and a trip down memory lane by asking them; 'Where was your favourite place to go in Wrexham as a kid?'

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Our post certainly had people's minds racing ... 

Debbie Greenaway said: "Queens Park youth club, Monday nights were the best nights."

Barbara Pugh added: "The swimming baths in Tuttle Street, having a hot chocolate from the vending machine on the way out and a bag of chips from the Pebble in Abbott Street.

"Also going to the beast market with my dad on a Monday to watch them auctioning the animals."

Lyn Edwards told us: "As a child I loved going to the milk bar after shopping with my mum and going to Steven’s Cafe with my aunties for thick hot buttered toast."

Paula Evans said: "Woolies - could have spent hours in there as a kid. I used to think we were so posh having our dinner there."

Rachel Moelwyn-Hughes added: "Bumbles cafe. I’d have homemade lemonade and a shortbread biscuit."

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Maria Williams said: "Dance class in King Street Wrexham run by Ron and Mary Davies."

Hayley Wright-Paice added: "The swimming baths and the Amusement Arcade in the old Scotts building."

Pauline Norgrove said: "The circus when it was on Ashfield Road in the early 60s they would have a parade of all the animals going through town as well."

Allan Jones said: "Then, now and always Saturday afternoons from the mid 60s onwards, only one place: the Racecourse Ground."

Carol Hazeldene said: "Just loved everything about our town, we had everything, spend all day Saturday with mates in town."