At a meeting of the Sanitary, Sewage, and Farm Committee of the Wrexham Town Council, on Tuesday afternoon, there were present: Alderman W. E. Samuel (chairman), the Mayor (Councillor C. Murless), Alderman G. Lovan, Councillors [more]
Source: Wrexham – The Official Guide c1930
Source: Wrexham – The Official Guide c1930
Source: Wrexham – The Official Handbook c1930
Selection of photographs from around town dating from 1998 – 1999. We found the negatives at the bottom of a box from Victoria School, Wrexham. Source: Victoria School Wrexham; Scanned by Graham Lloyd.
In January 1876 the Duke of Westminster promised to become a guarantor for the sum of £100 for the Wrexham Art Exhibition which was to take place in August, and in March the same year [more]
During the Victorian era people who suffered dire financial hardship who had no one else to rely on had to take the drastic action of seeking the charity of their local Poor Law Union. This [more]
History of the Society of Friends in Wrexham. (Quakers). The Friends resident in Wrexham determined to have a meeting house of their own. On April 7, 1708, accordingly, John James, a dyer, and Hannah Newton, [more]
ACTON, James, Pen y bryn (maltsters) BARLOW, Thomas & James (iron), Abenbury (iron and lead works) BAUGH, Joseph, Temple place (boot and shoe makers) BEALE, John, Yorke st (chemists and druggists) BEARDSWORTH, John, Pen y [more]
A Rhos mining widow who struggled to bring up two sons without a father on ten shillings a week (the equivalent of 50p today). Robert Jarvis met and married Harriet Jones in the 1870s. He [more]
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