Wrexham Asda shot leads to readers' trip down memory lane

The images were of the Eagles Meadow flyover (more commonly known as the Asda flyover) in Wrexham, from February 1977.

Eagles Meadow flyover, February 1977.

They had people reminiscing about the area, from their time learning to drive to the markets.

Here are some of the comments made...

Eagles Meadow flyover, February 1977.

Maxine Roberts: "As a teenager in the 70s remember mum's Monday routine - train to Wrexham with shopping trolley, around the fantastic Beast Market, into Asda, then up to Littlewoods for bacon. Last stop Woolworths fish counter with that waterfall feature. Great days!"

Donna Burns: "We used to go to the market then get a Jones' chippy to walk back to nan's with."

Beast Market, Wrexham, 1971.

Catherine Elizabeth: "One and only time I got pulled over by the police was on this bridge!"

Adi Jones: "1977 I was seven-years-old, loved going to the Monday Market, that's if I got a day off school. First my mam would take me to meet my nain and aunties in Asda's cafe upstairs, cuppa tea and fresh warm scones. Waiting for my man and aunties to finish midering so I can get my bag of soldiers from the toy stall on the market, good old days."

The Beast Market in Wrexham.

Alan Jones: "We used to go for our weekly shop and get a toy if we were good. Happy, innocent days."

Ellen Drax: "I remember Carron Samson used to work in the old Asda and still have vivid memories of the flyover, the Beast Market, Asda and the steps up to the Wynnstay. Such a shame it's all gone."

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Paul Eric Roberts: "Remember it like it was yesterday. I climbed the pile driver that was putting the foundations in for the bridge supports."

Beast Market, Wrexham, 1971.

Sharon Eshmade: "I worked in Rivulet road and often went to Asda for an all day breakfast. Always ended up buying a jumper or something from the Market on a Monday!"

Emma Mutley: "Used to love going to the market and I also worked in that Asda store in the late 80s to 90s, loved stacking the crisps. Seems so long ago now."

Eagles Meadow flyover, February 1977.

Janet Ready: "When I first started working in a Chester Street office, the girls I worked with would always want to go to the horse market down on Eagles Meadow on the first Thursday every month. Now that's a long time ago about 60 years!!"

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Victoria Karlikowski: "The Beast Market was the best, I used to spend all day there with me nana, then go to Jones' for fish and chips on the way home."

The Beast Market in Wrexham.

Wendy Evans: "I remember going to the market as a child, we always came home with something we didn't know we needed. Also spent many a happy time in the livestock market there too with my father, happy memories."

Sarah Jones: "Loved the beast market! You could get anything there, fond memories of going with my mum. Also learnt to drive on Asda car park."

Beast Market, Wrexham, 1971.

Neil Fox: "I remember my mum, Anne Fox, dropping two bottles of two-litre Coca-Cola in the aisle and both of them exploding and going off like rockets and soaking everyone else that was in there.

I" remember after it had all died down, a lady saying "my knickers are completely soaking", funny now but it sure wasn't back then."

Goronwy Thomas: "Monday market was the best place to go."

The Beast Market in Wrexham.

Lyn Hartley: "I used to work there on the evening shift 1988-89. Lovely to see photos of it as it used to be."

Mikey Nuckie Pritchard: "Was the Asda flyover to me as a kid, chilling with mates under the highest part of the bridge, good times."

Eagles Meadow flyover, February 1977.

Craig Read: "I remember it well, and the huge market that used to turn up once a week, would take you ages to walk around it.

"I've got vague memories of a cattle market at the top too, I think where Mecca is now."

Dilly Davies: "My mum took me for my first driving lesson on that carpark, how to change gear and clutch control. Plus she used to work in Asda."

Beast Market, Wrexham, 1971.

Amanda Griffiths: "This is the bridge me and my uncle Paul used to throw maggots off down on to people's heads when we had been to Deggys Fishing Tackle shop. Even funnier when the people were eating chips and we managed to hit them."

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Ffion Karen Huelin-Williams: "It made a great shortcut, I have great memories of the Monday Beast Market, going to Asda and the awesome fair which came every Easter and Christmas."

Paula Jones: "I walked under that flyover so many times on the way to the best open air market that nothing has been able to match."

The Beast Market in Wrexham.

Nick James: "Remember coming out of The Nags because it was on fire. Found my car in the smoke, drove up the road and turned left to go over the flyover. Finally came out of the smoke. Found somewhere to park and went back to see several fire engines on Yorke Street."

Jen Morgan: "I failed my driving test on that flyover."

And finally, these images were of interest regardless if you remember them, with David Haigh adding: "As a newbie to Wrexham, I always find these photos fascinating."