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Clywedog Trail
of industrial heritage. And explains how iron,
coal and lead transformed a small market
town into an economic powerhouse of the
18th and 19th centuries.
It’s an ideal stopping-off point on the
Clywedog Trail. A nine-mile footpath that links
all the industrial heritage sites on a river that
once drove no fewer than 17 mills - but which
has long since returned to nature.
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wrexham country borough
museum
Wrexham’s oldest resident has enjoyed a little
home improvement. Early in 2011 an impressive
new glass extension will be unveiled at
Wrexham County Borough Museum in Regent
Street.
It will house a new café, reception and shop.
And later we plan to open new exhibition
galleries - including one devoted to the
collections of National Museum Wales and
the National Library of Wales.
All good news for the museum’s most famous
inhabitant, whose remains were unearthed in
1958 by workmen digging a trench in Brymbo.
For quite a while 3,500-year-old “Brymbo
Man” was nothing more than a celebrity
skeleton.
But then we asked Dr Caroline Wilkinson of
BBC’s “Meet the Ancestors” to reconstruct his
face. The results are amazing. And the Welsh
Football Collection is well worth a look, too.
Our history of the beautiful game doesn’t
quite stretch back to the Bronze Age. But the
Football Association of Wales was formed in
Wrexham. Wales’s first ever home international
was played at the Racecourse Ground. And
the great Welsh winger Billy Meredith, who
played with a toothpick in his mouth, was
born in nearby Chirk.
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Artist’s impression of Wrexham County Borough Museum.
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