Featured
Recently Added
70s
Racecourse Review 29th April 1972
Football League Div. 3. Sat 29th April 1972. Swansea City. Kick off 3.15pm. Source: Wrexham FC Magazine from our collection.
70s
Snapshot of Wrexham from the old Police Station 1976
This set of nine photographs were taken in 1976 from the top of the former Wrexham Police Station tower by Kazik Kowalski and kindly shared to Wrexham History by Frederick Czulowski. Source: All photographs (c) [more]
Biographies
Edward Eyland Rogers
ELIZABETH ANN ROGERS 1859 -1887 EDWARD EYLAND ROGERS 1847 -1895 Elizabeth Ann was the eldest daughter of John Bradshaw and Elizabeth Letts, she was born in 1859 in Wrexham, and her father was the Deputy [more]
Coal Mining
New Broughton Colliery
The New Broughton Colliery was sunk by Thomas Clayton, of Brynmally Hall, in 1883 and was his most profitable venture. It remained in his possession until the turn of the century when it was taken [more]
Rhos
Village Praise from Rhos 1992
Presented by Pam Rhodes with the Rhos Male Voice Choir & the Rhos Orpheus Choir. Conducted by John Glyn Williams. Organist Haydn Bowen. Source: First published by BBC 1992. Shared with kind permission of the [more]
Chirk
Brynkinalt Colliery, Chirk
Sunk during the 1860s by a Mr Blakewell, an eminent mining engineer, who owned the Brynkinallt Coal Co Ltd. The mine was purchased in 1893 by Mr William Young Craig (formerly the MP for North [more]
Bersham
Bersham Colliery 2013
Photographs of remnants at the Bersham Colliery site from a visit on 3rd August 2013. Source: Photographs by Graham Lloyd.
1900s
Queen Victoria’s Statue at Wrexham
At a meeting of the Wrexham Science and Art Committee in November 1903, the Chairman, Simon Jones, announced that Henry Price, a former pupil of the school, had been commissioned by Mr. Thorneycroft, R. A., [more]
Places
Royal Welsh Fusiliers memorial at Nant Y Belan Tower, Wynnstay Park, Ruabon.
The Battle of the Alma took place on 20th September 1854 during the Crimean War. To this day it is remembered by the Royal Welsh for the bravery displayed by their predecessors, and remains particularly [more]
