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THE GALLERY
Pictures Of Home
I count myself fortunate that I live in one of the world's good
places.
At least, there are certainly worse places to live, some of
them not very far away.
I live in a village called Brymbo. It stands on a hillside approximately 5
kilometres north west of the town of Wrexham in North Wales. It is a
village with a long and proud history of steel manufacture, stretching
back to the days of Wilkinson over two hundred years ago. Some of the
best special steels in the world were made here.
Sadly, the company was bought by a bunch of asset-strippers in the
mid-1980s, who deliberately failed to invest in it as a ready pretext
for shutting it down late in 1990, with the direct loss of over 1200
jobs and the indirect loss of hundreds more.
We are still having to live with the consequences of that decision,
in terms of lack of jobs, lack of amenities, and the psychological
effects on the community. It took fifteen years for redevelopment to begin on the site - a scandal which
would have had heads rolling had it happened in South Wales, Scotland
or England. And now, with the recession, the houses which have already gone up on the site can't be sold, so there's no money for rest of the development - the part which was supposed to bring us new facilities and new jobs. We wait, and wait...
One consolation is that the village is surrounded on three sides by
open country, which means that five minutes walk from my gate takes me
out amongst fields and hedges.
You can see a few sights (past and present) from the village in The
Gallery; and, if that whets your appetite, you can see more pictures on
Alan
Owens' site and at AJ's Moss Valley site.
The Gallery also includes a variety of other pictures, some of which are from my rare meanderings around the area, and others which don't
fit into any clear category.
Copyright is held in all photographs in this section. See each
individual page for copyright holder.
Pictures from 2005 and later taken with a BenQ DC C51 (pictured
above) bought from Wrexham
Cameras (now known as Lord Street Cameras)
