Qualla: Wrexham https://qualla.com/wrexham en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Wrexham https://qualla.com/wrexham Wrexham: Introduction https://qualla.com/wrexham/ Two Hollywood actors bought a fourth-division football club in north-east Wales in February 2021, made a documentary about it, and within four years the city around the club had been promoted three times into the English Football League Championship and tripled its global recognition. None of that history erases what was here before. Wrexham was the largest town in Wales for a while in the 17th century, made the United Kingdom's first lager in 1882, lost 266 men in a single mining disaster in 1934, and watched Elihu Yale - born in Boston, returned to Wrexham, buried in the churchyard of St Giles - lend his name to a New England university his family had never seen. The Hollywood story is real. So is the longer one.

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/v/wrexham-wp/gcmv-wrexham-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Wrexham: The Tower That Became One of the Seven Wonders https://qualla.com/wrexham/ St Giles' Church on the High Street has the tallest medieval church tower in Wales - 41 metres of richly decorated late-Gothic stonework, completed in the early 16th century. The 18th-century rhyme of the Seven Wonders of Wales lists it alongside Snowdon and the bells of Gresford...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/v/wrexham-wp/gcmv-wrexham-the-tower-that-became-one-of-the-seven-wonders.mp3 0:06 2 full Wrexham: Coal, Lager, and a Hanging Judge https://qualla.com/wrexham/ From the late 18th century onwards Wrexham was the centre of the North-east Wales coalfield - by 1913 producing up to three million tonnes a year and employing more than 10,000 men. The collieries were among the great industrial enterprises of Britain. The 22 September 1934 explo...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/v/wrexham-wp/gcmv-wrexham-coal-lager-and-a-hanging-judge.mp3 0:06 3 full Wrexham: The Oldest Club in the Oldest Stadium https://qualla.com/wrexham/ Wrexham AFC was founded on 4 October 1864 at the Turf Tavern, by members of the local cricket club who wanted winter sport for the young men of the town. Their first game was played on 22 October at the Denbighshire County Cricket Ground - later renamed the Racecourse Ground - ag...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/v/wrexham-wp/gcmv-wrexham-the-oldest-club-in-the-oldest-stadium.mp3 0:06 4 full Wrexham: A Saint, a Martyr, a City https://qualla.com/wrexham/ Saint Richard Gwyn, a Wrexham Recusant schoolteacher and Welsh-language poet, was convicted of treason for his Catholic faith and hanged, drawn and quartered at the town's Beast Market on 15 October 1584. He was canonised by Pope Paul VI in 1970 as one of the Forty Martyrs of Eng...

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