Victoria School was opened on Tuesday, 1 January 1901 by Alderman Thomas Jones, Mayor of Wrexham, with Charles Dodd as first headmaster. It was regarded as an occasion ‘unique in the history of this good old town’, and the culmination of the efforts of the Wrexham School Board.
In 2001 the school celebrated it’s centenary.
Source: All material kindly supplied by Victoria Junior School.
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