A make shift sign “Buy Hafod Coal” written on the front of the coal truck which serviced the Rhos, Johnstown and Wrexham areas during the 1930s.
Source: Original photograph NWNMedia; Local Bygones; Digitally repaired as seen by Wrexham History.
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