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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EG4BMH - A large mural celebrating former footballer Joey Jones covers the gable end of The Turf public house on Mold Road, immediately beside Wrexham AFC's Racecourse Ground, also known by its Welsh name Cae Ras, in Wrexham, North Wales. The striking artwork depicts Jones wearing a Wrexham football shirt and raising a clenched fist against a bold red background, accompanied by a panel reading Joey Jones, Mr Wrexham .
Created by mural artist Paul Curtis, the public artwork commemorates one of the best-known figures associated with Wrexham AFC. Jones played more than 100 matches for the club and became particularly admired by supporters for his commitment, enthusiasm and strong connection with the town. He also played for Liverpool FC, winning major honours including the European Cup, and represented Wales at international level.
The mural occupies a prominent position on the pub's end wall, making it visible to football supporters and visitors approaching the stadium. Its red, grey, black and white colour scheme reflects Wrexham AFC's identity and turns the otherwise plain building facade into a highly recognisable piece of football street art.
The Turf is closely linked with the history and matchday culture of Wrexham AFC because of its location immediately alongside the stadium. The pub and football club have gained a much wider international profile following the television series Welcome to Wrexham and the ownership of the club by actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. The mural has consequently become both a local sporting tribute and a popular visitor landmark for football tourists travelling to Wrexham.
Photographed beneath a bright blue sky, the painted gable illustrates the strong relationship between public art, local identity, traditional football pubs and the renewed international interest in Wrexham and its football heritage.
The Turf, Mold Road, Wrexham, Wales, LL11 2AH
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EG4BPD - Large freestanding letters spelling WRECSAM, the Welsh-language name for Wrexham, stand in Queen's Square outside the historic Old Library in Wrexham city centre, North Wales. The rust-coloured sculptural installation creates a prominent civic landmark and photographic attraction, celebrating the city's identity, language and growing profile as a visitor destination.
The photograph shows the complete sign beneath a bright blue summer sky with scattered white clouds. Behind the letters is the former Carnegie library, an attractive red-brick and stone building with arched ground-floor windows, decorative masonry, a central entrance and a small rooftop cupola. Mature trees in flower frame the square and soften the surrounding city-centre architecture. No people are visible, allowing the WRECSAM lettering and historic building to dominate the composition.
The Old Library was originally funded by Scottish-American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and opened as Wrexham's public library in the early twentieth century. The Grade II listed building later stood closed to the public for many years before undergoing a multimillion-pound refurbishment as a creative industries hub. Its reuse combines heritage conservation with contemporary cultural and economic activity in the heart of the city.
The large WRECSAM letters were unveiled in Queen's Square as a public artwork and temporary landmark intended to celebrate local identity, encourage photographs and promote destinations across Wrexham County Borough. Their use of the Welsh spelling reinforces the area's bilingual culture and provides a striking example of place branding within an improved public realm.
The image is suitable for editorial coverage of Wrexham tourism, Welsh identity, public art, bilingual placenames, urban regeneration, Carnegie libraries, listed buildings, creative industries, civic pride, city-centre improvement and the promotion of North Wales visitor destinations.
The Old Library, Queen's Square, Wrexham, North Wales, Wales, UK, LL11 1AT
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EGWKRH - Colourful Croeso i Wrecsam mural beside the construction site for Wrexham AFC's new Kop Stand at the STōK Cae Ras, historically known as the Racecourse Ground, in Wrexham, North Wales. The Welsh wording means Welcome to Wrexham , combining the city's Welsh-language identity with the football club's increasingly prominent international profile.
The artwork depicts two illustrated supporters wearing traditional Welsh national dress, including tall black hats, red and green checked clothing and white lace-style collars. Between them is the red dragon crest associated with Wrexham AFC. The figures are painted against horizontal red, white and green bands, creating an immediately recognisable Welsh cultural image.
Behind the wall, construction structures, equipment and McLaren branding are visible at the new Kop End development. The contrast between the brightly painted welcome mural and the large modern building project links local identity, football heritage and supporter culture with the physical transformation of the historic stadium.
Wrexham and Wrecsam are the English and Welsh forms of the city's name. The use of Croeso i Wrecsam reflects the growing visibility of Welsh language and culture in public spaces around the city. The mural also provides a playful interpretation of Welsh national costume, welcoming residents, visiting supporters and football tourists arriving near the ground.
The new Kop Stand replaces the former terrace at the end of the Racecourse Ground and forms a major element of Wrexham AFC's stadium redevelopment. Its construction reflects increased demand for match tickets, the club's sporting growth and wider interest generated by the Welcome to Wrexham documentary series.
This vertical street-level photograph records public artwork beside an active football construction project. It is suitable for editorial themes involving Wrexham AFC, Welsh identity, bilingual communities, football tourism, supporter culture, stadium investment, urb
STōK Cae Ras, Mold Road, Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom, LL11 2AH
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Wales, UK
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Station Rd, Trevor, Llangollen, Wales, UK, LL20 7TY
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Station Rd, Trevor, Llangollen, Wales, UK, LL20 7TY
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRAHKE - The Pentresaeson foundry - read more at https://thefireonthehill.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/the-pentresaeson-foundry/
June 20, 2013 in 19th century, Brymbo, Industrial archaeology
Although we might think of Wrexham as a largely industrial town, with the Brymbo district as its economic powerhouse through much of the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution in north Wales was actually something of a damp squib. A. H. Dodd's classic text on the subject, first published in the 1920s, explained some of the reasons why: remote sites and poor communications restricted trade to the local area, whereas the coal and iron of south Wales had access to deep-sea ports (giving particularly direct access to the lucrative Irish market). The collieries west of Wrexham, old, smaller-scale workings on shallow seams, were a world away from the deep mines of the Rhondda, and Brymbo's steelworks was unusual in its hilly, land-locked site. By the 1900s many of the area's coal and iron operations had ceased.
The small-scale and localised development of industry in the district led to a distinctive landscape, where a patchwork of agricultural land was intermingled with small collieries, related industries such as brickworks, and villages spreading across former areas of common land. The last of these smaller scale industrial sites survived through to the 1950s, 60s and 70s
in Brymbo, a particularly interesting one lasted until the 1980s. There are now few buildings near Pentresaeson crossroads, and there were never very many, but you can still see one of the main landmarks of the immediate area, the old Taylor Brothers iron foundry and its distinctive chimney, just down the township road to Bwlchgwyn alongside the bed of the former Minera railway line. Back in the 19th century this would have been a good site for a small ironworks, with reliable supplies of coal in the immediate vicinity, a tributary stream of the Gwenfro running nearby and, from the 1840s, the railway giving vital access
Wrexham, North Wales, UK
