Wrexham Past 1988

by Jill Burton. George was born in 1859 in Erbistock, the son of an agricultural labourer. On the 1881 census he was a lodger in Bersham and working as a railway plate layer. He also [more] [more]

This set of nine photographs were taken in 1976 from the top of the former Wrexham Police Station tower by Kazik Kowalski and kindly shared to Wrexham History by Frederick Czulowski. Source: All photographs (c) [more]

by Jill Burton. William was born in 1855 in Ponciau (Philip Yorke II’s poem says he lived in Rhosllanerchrugog, but census tell us it was Ponciau.) His father William (1823-1885) came from Ellesmere, Shropshire, his [more] [more]