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Woolworths Wrexham Staff, last picture together
Staff from the Woolworths store in Wrexham have a final group photo before the store closed for good on Tuesday 6th January 2009. The store had 73 members of staff and has been in the [more]
People
One of Rhos’s musical heroes – Caradog Roberts
Dr. Caradog Roberts. This essay is intended to stimulate an interest in the life of Dr. Caradog Roberts, one of Rhos’s musical heroes. To set the scene, let us go back in time to Church [more]
20s
Rhos Junior School 1927
The school attendance officer at the back was Arthur Augustus Roberts. The family were from Trefnant Nr. Rhyl. Arthur’s father William Roberts was the police sergeant in Rhos for a very long time. In 1893, [more]
As it was!
Milk Horse That Won the National
The 1919 Grand National was the 78th renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree Racecourse on 28 March 1919. It was the first true Aintree Grand National since 1915, [more]
Coal Mining
Coal Mining
Gresford – Bringing the lads up at last. An interview by Geoff Wilding.
BRINGING THE LADS UP AT LAST Geoff Wilding interviews Catherine Hughes, playwright and author in March 1982 This year almost half a century after the Gresford Disasters, a monument to the 266 men who died [more]
Bersham
So what’s been going at Bersham Colliery?
Whilst a member of NWMAT Graham asked the question, “so what’s been going at Bersham Colliery?” and went along to film the answers on the 12th Nov 2013. Filmed at Bersham Colliery 12th November 2013 [more]
Coal Mining
Wynnstay Colliery, Ruabon
Wynnstay Colliery, Ruabon Wynnstay Colliery or The Green Pit. Ruabon. The New British Iron Company owned the colliery. The workings were ventilated by a split of the air at the extremity of the horse road [more]
Wartime
Places
Royal Ordnance Factory – Wrexham
Work on the new Royal Ordnance factory at Wrexham began soon after the outbreak of war in 1939. Located where the Industrial Estate is today, during the Second World War, Wrexham’s ROF facility made cordite, [more]
War Memorials
Bellevue Park WWI War Memorial
The Leader – October 2017 A memorial built to commemorate those who made the ultimate sacrifice during the First World War has been unveiled. The memorial garden at Bellevue Park in Wrexham was officially opened [more]
Overton
ROC Monitoring Post Overton
ROC Monitoring Post Overton Since its inception in 1925 as in integral part of the UK air defence system, the primary role of the Royal Observer Corps (ROC) was the recognition and identification of hostile [more]
