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Wales (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Wales => Denbighshire => Topic started by: e3gsr on Saturday 03 May 08 20:49 BST (UK)
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I wonder if any of you can help us.
We are looking for any old pictures/photographs of Kent road, the lodge Brymbo. I have searched this site and found one picture which shows only part of our home taken from the old railway line.
If anyone can recommend links or places to visit this would be a great help. It would be nice to know some of the history of our home.
Thanks in advance.
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Hello
This site looks very interesting
http://owensaw.Homstead.com/ReflectionsOnBrymbo.html
Sylvia
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Hi, At the moment I do not know where the pictures are of Lodge that I have got but you appear to be on the wrong site as Lodge is in Denbighshire not Flintshire and the address is Lodge near Brymbo not in Brymbo. What year are you looking for. Norma
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Norma's correct - Lodge/Brymbo has always been in Denbighshire.
Here's a thread that mentions it. It might be worth contacting Polidor. I know she had some photos:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,136502.0.html
Gadget
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Thanks for your replies. I did notice that there was Wrexham in both denbighshire and flinshire so was not sure with sub forum to put this on.
Gadget yes I have seen that thread. The picture that mikedavies38 has put up shows part of our house (the one on the left with smoke coming out of the chimney).
We have been told that our house was built for the vicar, I can not say if this is correct or not. I have also seen pictures with a old post office and shops on the opposite side of the road sadly they are no longer there. Again we have been told these were there previously, but a local resident claimed this was not true.
We are currently renovating the house and trying to keep as much of the old character as we can. I thought it would be nice if we could obtain a photograph of our home back in the late 1800s or 1900s to put on the wall. And also to show our children what the village was like years ago.
It would be nice to see what was built around The lodge before they started to knock them down and of course the current building works that are in progress at the moment. I might pop down to the museum tomorrow if its open and see what I can find there.
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Very rude of me, I forgot to welcome you to Rootsweb Rootschat :)
I hope that we can help you find what you're looking for. I think the problem with the Denbighshire/Flintshire anomaly is that the Admin districts are now changed. The old Denbighshire (pre 1974), which is how the boards are arranged, contained Brymbo.
Have all the steel works, etc. gone now? I've not been there since I was about 12 :-\
Gadget
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Hello
Cant really understand what is happening there seems to be some confusion when you tap into the site that I mentioned. Perhaps this might come up with the correct one.
owensaw.homestead.com/brymbo.html. Otherwise just type in Brymbo and it comes up .
Sylvia
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Hello
The site is called alan owen Brymbo homepage
There seems to be something strange happening when you tap into the site that I entered previously so I tried typing in the above and up it came.
Sylvia
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http://owensaw.homestead.com/Lodge.html
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Hello
Thank goodness for that Hireath I was beginning to think I needed a long rest
Sylvia
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Very rude of me, I forgot to welcome you to Rootsweb :)
Eh?? :o
That'd be RootsChat!
:D
I'll move this to Denbighshire for you - thanks for the tip Gadget!
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The Steelworks shut in 1990 Gadget.
Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.
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Very rude of me, I forgot to welcome you to Rootsweb :)
Eh?? :o
That'd be RootsChat!
:D
I'll move this to Denbighshire for you - thanks for the tip Gadget!
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Terribly sorry Freudian slip or something - must have been all that thinking of the olden days - pre Rootschat :)
Welcome to Rootschat e3gsr :)
Thanks AR :-*
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Thanks everyone for the replies. & welcome
Yes the steel works has now gone and they are building houses and industrial units. The only blessing is we can only see a few of the houses on the top the the steel works bank.
There is not as many houses here now as there used to be. I would say at a rough guess a max of 40 houses.
As its a nice day today, I will go up on the old railway line and take a picture of how it is now.
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Hi, Reading your message I get the feeling that you where told about the Church and Post office in the Lodge but someone has told you that they went there, don't know who has told you this as I used to shop in the Post office and the local voting place was the old church. There was also a judo club held in the church just before it was pulled down. I can't remember the name of the lady who ran the Post office but I know she went to live just outside Wrexham. From start to finish Lodge now has 71 or 72 houses. Norma
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Hi, At the moment I do not know where the pictures are of Lodge that I have got but you appear to be on the wrong site as Lodge is in Denbighshire not Flintshire and the address is Lodge near Brymbo not in Brymbo. What year are you looking for. Norma
please dont take this the wrong way but f.y.i lodge is in wrexham county borough not flintshire or denbighshire.
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Of course you are correct in that Lodge is presently in the Borough of Wrexham,but historically it was in Denbighshire.
Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.
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As` William says, for purposes of this forum and most genealogical records, it is in the old historical county of Denbighshire. It was part of Clwyd from 1974-1996 and became part of Wrexham County Borough in April 1996.
Gadget
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okey cokey ;D
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Hello
There are a couple of local books with pictures of Lodge in them.
Wrexham Villages (a coll of pictures vol 1-west) by russell H Jones ISBN 1 872424 18 x
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Brymbo Steel works (a coll of pictures) by Ioan D Jones ISBN 872424 18 9
I do have the books (bought from Waterstones wxm and AN palmer centre)) but not sure if its legal to upload them from books. If someone out there can tell me that its ok I can do that for you,
Elaine
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Hi,
Another Brymbo book (and not just about trains!) is The Golden Age Of Brymbo Steam by Geoff and Hugh Charles. Excellent reading , local history, photos maps etc.
My Evans family lived in the Lodge and Brymbo area, moving from Coedpoeth around 1890ish.
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Having just read all the chat about The Lodge, I remember visiting an aunt & uncle there when I was young & we used to park the car on the road, at the bottom of the drive & then walk up a steep drive to the houses. Their names were Annie & Sam Edwards, I beleive. My grandmother Rosina was Annie's sister, however Rosina died before I was born so I never saw her. Their maiden name was Davies & Rosina m Richard Louis Griffiths from Gwersyllt. Anyone remember the houses, are they still there? Anyone remember the family? They had 3 children I beleive Percy, Gwen & Phyllis. Anyone with a photo of the row of houses? Just wondering! Amberley
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I have just come across this link while research a friend's family who lived in Brymbo. Her Great Grandfather was Edward Davies who in 1911 was living with his daughter and son-in-law (Samuel and Annie Edwards) at 13 Kent Road, Lodge and I was wondering if Amberely ever came across any old photos? I guess the area must be pretty much re-developed by now . . .
I am new to Roots chat but come across it so often in different research decided to take the plunge . . . .
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Hi, glad to hear from you.
Edward Davies must have been my gt grandfather too, if Annie was his daughter because my grandmother Rosina was Annie's sister. I do have at least one photo I beleive of Annie & Samuel Edwards, who I called Auntie Annie & Uncle Sam.
Rosina & her husband Richard Louis Griffiths were my grandparents, but both had died before I was born, & I knew very little about them.
I'd be really interested in hearing what you've found out about the Davies family & who the family are that you have been doing the research for.
I'll send a personal reply to you with my email address & maybe we can correspond off line from now on?
Thanks so much, Amberly.
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I'm interested in learning more about my Welsh family. The family name is Phennah. I'd love to hear from you! Here is a picture of my Great-grandmother Phennah at Lodge Brymbo, Wales.
Pamela Oakes Goff
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Hi
Have you tried a facebook page 'old photos of wrexham' there's loads on there from Wxm and surrounding villages.
Elaine
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Hi Elaine, I don't do facebook I'm afraid. Have enough on the go without adding that to my list, but thanks for letting me know. Is there any other way one can view the photos without going through facebook???
Amberly