Tag Archives: Wrexham

The Wrecking Ball

Posted on 15/04/2024 by Bobby Seal

Not so long ago The Guardian called Wrexham ‘a veritable Paris of what is lost’. For, despite the city’s rich history as a market town and the UNESCO World Heritage Site status of its Pontcysyllte aqueduct, Wrexham is most notable … Continue reading →

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Wrexham Workhouse

Posted on 14/04/2023 by Bobby Seal

Having just read Anthony Trollope’s The Warden, with its depiction of a Victorian church almshouse, and recently discovering that one of my own ancestors, Mary Elizabeth Raley, was an assistant matron at Wakefield Workhouse in the nineteenth century, I felt … Continue reading →

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Resurrection River by Pete Evans

Posted on 22/01/2023 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – January 2023 The Alun is a river of tranquillity, of droughts, floods and trade; fortunes made and lost. At times it doesn’t exist at all and yet at the same time it is two rivers! For anyone … Continue reading →

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A Garden Village

Posted on 27/09/2021 by Bobby Seal

In 1913 the Welsh Town Planning and Housing Trust proposed an innovative new housing scheme in Wrexham; the first of its kind in Wales. Taking as their inspiration similar schemes at Port Sunlight on the Wirral and Bournville in Birmingham, … Continue reading →

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The Aerodrome

Posted on 22/07/2020 by Bobby Seal

Remember that we expect from you conduct of a quite different order from that of the mass of mankind. Your purpose – to escape the bondage of time, to obtain mastery over yourselves, and thus over your environment – must … Continue reading →

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The Mystery of Manchester Square

Posted on 01/03/2020 by Bobby Seal

It was part of the sisters’ duties to come to Manchester Square on market days to buy what was needed at home. A few months ago I was reading a book called Miriam from an author by the name of … Continue reading →

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Croft Peace Garden

Posted on 10/01/2019 by Bobby Seal

The Croft Peace Garden is a small parcel of land in Holt Street, Wrexham. It is built on ground that was formerly a burial site for members of the Society of Friends (Quakers). In 1963 the site was gifted to … Continue reading →

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The Polish Embassy

Posted on 14/06/2016 by Bobby Seal

It’s very easy to walk straight past the Polish Embassy in Wrexham without noticing it.  It’s a narrow, understated and not particularly distinguished building on the town’s High Street.  It also happens to be pub called the Royal Oak. The … Continue reading →

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The Fairy Mount

Posted on 03/03/2016 by Bobby Seal

For in one sense Faerie represents a species of limbo, a great abyss of traditional material, into which every kind of ancient belief came to be cast as the acceptance of one new faith after another dictated the abandonment of … Continue reading →

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Four Dogs

Posted on 08/09/2015 by Bobby Seal

I asked my friend Will to join me on this walk. Will has lived in Wrexham for most of his life and I hoped he could put a personal perspective on some of the places I planned to explore. Ever … Continue reading →

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