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From Industry to Heritage
Converting a former iron and steel works into a visitor attraction, conserving a fossil forest and regenerating a community.
It once made the finest steel but when Wrexham's Brymbo Steel works closed in 1990 it was a huge blow to the local community but now the historic industrial site is being turned into a remarkable heritage attraction. Sarah Easedale meets the members and volunteers of the Brymbo Heritage Trust and hears about the community's efforts to preserve and celebrate Brymbo's industrial past, conserve a 300-million-year-old fossil forest and provide an area for events and activities
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