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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 museum is managed by the Wrexham Heritage & Archives Service, part of Wrexham County Borough Council's Housing & Economy Department. [4] [6] The archives are regarded to be part of the museum, but were named in honour of local historian Alfred Neobard Palmer, as the A. N. Palmer Centre for Local Studies and Archives, and opened in 2002. [7]
It currently houses the Wrexham County Borough Museum and Wrexham Archives. By 2026, the building would become one museum, dedicated to both Wrexham and Welsh football heritage. The building is located between Saint Mark's Road and Regent Street in the city centre and Offa, bounded by Wrexham Cathedral to the west.
Wrexham County Borough Council was created in 1996 under the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994. The new county borough of Wrexham covered all of the district of Wrexham Maelor and a small part of the Glyndŵr district, both of which were part of the county of Clwyd. On 1 April 1996 the new Wrexham County Borough Council took over the county ...
Location of Wrexham County Borough within Wales. In the latter half of the 20th century, Wrexham began a period of depression: the many coal mines closed first, followed by the brickworks and other industries, and finally the steelworks (which had its own railway branch up until closure) in the 1980s. Wrexham faced an economic crisis.
Wrexham County Borough (Welsh: Bwrdeistref Sirol Wrecsam) is a county borough, with city status, [3] in the north-east of Wales.It borders the English ceremonial counties of Cheshire and Shropshire to the east and south-east respectively along the England–Wales border, Powys to the south-west, Denbighshire to the west and Flintshire to the north-west.
The Old Library (sometimes Old Carnegie Library) is a building on Queen's Square in Wrexham city centre, Wales. Built as a carnegie library in 1907, the building served as Wrexham's public library until 1973, when it later became council offices. The building is Grade II listed and owned by Wrexham County Borough Council.
On the site's Chester Street side stood the former Wrexham Grammar School, founded in 1603 and closed in 1880, which later became home to Wrexham's first guildhall (also known as the Municipal Building) [39] and free library in 1884 following its acquisition by the local borough council, [40] in the year prior.