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In 1895, the Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway was completed [9] and cut a swathe through the city centre. In 1863 a volunteer fire brigade was founded. Wrexham benefited from good underground water supplies which were essential to the brewing of good beer and brewing became one of its main industries.
Wrexham University was formed when the North East Wales Institute (NEWI) was granted full university status in 2008. It consists of Plas Coch campus in the western part of the city and the North Wales School of Art and Design located on Regent Street. The institution was founded in 1887 as the Wrexham School of Science and Art.
The Kennedy Center as seen from the air on January 8, 2006 (before construction of the REACH expansion). A portion of the Watergate complex can be seen at the left. The idea for a national cultural center dates to 1933 when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt discussed ideas for the Emergency Relief and Civil Works Administration to create employment for unemployed actors during the Great Depression. [3]
The Cambrian Vaults is a pub building located on College Street, on its junction with Town Hill.The building dates from c. 1830, while the pub itself dates to c. 1780, when it was known as the Miners' Arms, a name it held until 1857, until it adopted its current name.
Wrexham city centre is the administrative, cultural and historic city centre of Wrexham, in North Wales and is the area enclosed by the inner ring road of the city.
Of the 9,000 students currently enrolled at Wrexham University, around 1,500 are international students - mainly from South Asia but also from Africa, Germany and Switzerland.
Wrexham Football Club have played at the Racecourse Ground since being formed in the local Turf Hotel public house in October 1864. However, due to an increase in rent from the then owners, Wrexham Cricket Club, Wrexham played their home games in the 1881–82 and 1882–83 seasons at the Recreation Ground in Rhosddu, while also changing their name to Wrexham Athletic for one season.
The archives are held at County Buildings, on Regent Street, Wrexham, and run by Wrexham County Borough Council as part of its Wrexham Archives and Local Studies Service. [1] [2] The centre was initially named after local Wrexham historian Alfred Neobard Palmer. [3] The building is shared with Wrexham County Borough Museum and the archives ...