Rhosllanerchrugog

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Rhosllanerchrugog

Image: © Patrick A Griffin Taken: 11 Jul 2004

Just off the A483 south of Wrexham in the village of Rhosllanerchrugog, this building, built around 1889, housed an orphanage between WW1 and WW2 - my father-in-law spent some of his boyhood there before joining the army at the age of 17 in 1927. Still has a forbidding look about it.

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