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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.
[19] [full citation needed] Glamorgan became the most populous and industrialised county in Wales and was known as the 'crucible of the Industrial Revolution'. [20] [21] [full citation needed] Other areas to house heavy industries include ironworks in Maesteg (1826), tinplate works in Llwydarth and Pontyclun and an iron ore mine in Llanharry.
Wrexham Archives and Local Studies (simply the Wrexham Archives; formerly A.N. Palmer Centre for Local Studies and Archives) holds the archives for the city of Wrexham. 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.
Wrexham's Built-up Area (BUA) in red in 2021; (on a background OSM map) Wrexham is not built on a major river, but on a relatively flat plateau between the lower Dee Valley and easternmost mountains of north-east Wales. This position enabled it to grow as a market town, as a crossroads between England and Wales, and later as an industrial hub ...
The development of iron smelting by coke made the South Wales Valleys a natural industrial location during the Industrial Revolution and, from the mid 18th century, increased demand for metals and coal was generated first by war and later by the advent of steamships and railways. [1]
British industrial architecture has been created, mainly from 1700 onwards, to house industries of many kinds in Britain, home of the Industrial Revolution in this period. Both the new industrial technologies and industrial architecture soon spread worldwide. As such, the architecture of surviving industrial buildings records part of the ...
A Roberts loom in a weaving shed in the United Kingdom in 1835. The nature of the Industrial Revolution's impact on living standards in Britain is debated among historians, with Charles Feinstein identifying detrimental impacts on British workers, whilst other historians, including Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson claim the Industrial Revolution improved the living standards of British ...
The Cilgwyn quarry in the Nantlle Valley dates from the 12th century, and is thought to be the oldest in Wales. [10] The first record of slate quarrying in the neighbourhood of the later Penrhyn Quarry was in 1413, when a rent-roll of Gwilym ap Griffith records that several of his tenants were paid 10 pence each for working 5,000 slates. [11]