@Y Ffin 2446 wrote:
What a pity people were so free and easy with the bulldozer in 1960s-2000s Wrexham as their damage has had a serious negative impact on the town which still effects us today.
Just spent the day in Shrewsbury and the contrast is stark. Clearly a town that understands how important its heritage is.. Full of great independent shops, restaurants and cafes with new new ones opening all the time. With it comes extra investment such as the new theatre etc..
Shrewsbury builds an independent cinema in an existing historical building… Wrexham had an independent cinema which it knocked down to create, well, nothing.. A building site.
Wrexhams remaining heritage is blighted by tacky facades and poorly constructed 60’s boxes. It’s telling that on the old Groves school site the council are having to demolish the 60’s/70’s eyesore whilst the original building still stands.. Though I have the suspicion the council would secretly quite like it (and the derelict Grosvnor roasd sites) to fall in to a state beyond repair so they have “no choice” to replace it with another cheap and nasty box..