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Last updated: 25 April 2008


The Nag's Head
The Nag's Head, Mount Street ,used to have a brewery connected to it. By Stephen Rogers. next page
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Students from a Workers' Educational Association group with learning disabilities discover more about Wrexham's once proud brewing industry. Here, the students on the Workers' Educational Association 'Our Lives' course, write for BBC Local NE Wales:

speech marks We started off in Mount Street where we saw the Nag's Head pub. There used to be a brewery there, it's gone now but there's still a chimney there. It was owned by Soames brewery, then taken over by Border breweries then by Marston's.

Over the road we saw Balaclava Ned's garden. He was the last survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade. Then we walked past St Giles Church on the way to the Swan pub, which also used to have its own brewery. Then we went to Island Green shopping centre. You can still see the old oast houses in the middle of the car park. They have now been converted into flats. Nearby is Wrexham Central Railway Station which has been moved from its original position.

Over the road you can see the old Wrexham Lager site which was being knocked down - it's now a retail park. speech marks


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