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Country FocusFrom Industry to HeritageThe Brymbo Heritage project

From geology to industry to the regeneration of a community

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Once a hive of industry....in it's heyday Brymbo steelworks employed almost 2,500 people

It's closure was a "devastating blow" to the local communities.

  • The Old Machine Shop
  • Once a hive of industry....in it's heyday Brymbo steelworks employed almost 2,500 people
  • The Charging Wall
  • Generations worked in the iron and steelworks.....
  • "The opportunity of a lifetime" to explore a uniquely accessible fossil forest
  • Distinctive leaf patterns....
  • Tree Stumps....
  • Standing in what would have been a river bed....
  • Fossilised flotsam - like scars in what would have been the riverbank
  • Bottling up in the Cider house.....
  • Vast quantities of fossils are being discovered
  • Volunteer and Phd Student
  • Lycophyte bark

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