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Hortons Jewellers, Church Street, Wrexham
40s
Wrexham Home Guard defend a bridge 1940
Wrexham Home Guard defend a bridge 1940. With the threat of invasion looming larger day by day in 1940, thousands flocked to enlist in the Home Guard across Wrexham and Flintshire. One of the oldest [more]
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]
As it was!
The Leader rises from the ashes
In June, 1949, the Leader office at Regent Street was destroyed in the biggest fire seen at Wrexham since August 1928, when the Abbot Leather Works were destroyed in a huge blaze. The fire was [more]