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Home2018January

Month: January 2018

1800s

Terrible Disaster on the Great Western Railway – Christmas Eve 1874

28/01/2018

A railway accident, which caused a profound sensation throughout the kingdom on Christmas Day, occurred on the Great Western Railway on Thursday week, a few hundred yards from the village of Hampton Gay and close [more]

Families

Do you remember The Billy Scales Band?

27/01/2018

Do you remember The Billy Scales Band? Sent in by Nathan Roberts, he said “This is my Grandad Billy Scales and his dance band, he used to play around the Wrexham and North Wales area [more]

Company

Cobden Flour Mill, Wrexham

27/01/2018

Cobden Flour Mill, Wrexham.  

As it was!

Woolworths Wrexham Staff, last picture together

25/01/2018

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]

30s

Clarke Bros, Chester Street 1930s

25/01/2018

Clarke Bros, Butchers Shop, Chester Street, c 1930s.

70s

When Wrexham FC met Liverpool 1970

25/01/2018

A beautiful old photo of when Wrexham FC met Liverpool in the FA Cup 4th round at Anfield on the 24th January 1970. (Wrexham lost 3-1). Source: NWN Media

70s

Dane Motors Llay 1972

25/01/2018

Source: NWN Media

60s

Ruabon to Llangollen by Steam Train in 1964

21/01/2018

Dr Beeching considered the long line from Ruabon to Barmouth along the Dee valley to be surplus to requirements and its complete closure was scheduled for 18th January 1965. In the autumn of its days [more]

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Majestic Cinema, Regent Street, Wrexham

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Hope Street, Wrexham 1911

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