The Brymbo Steel Works was a former large steelworks in the village of Brymbo near Wrexham, Wales. In operation between 1796 and 1990, it was significant on account of its founder, one of whose original blast furnace stacks remains on the site.
Part of the works in April 1962
The steelworks in 1990
Freight train with the steelworks' Melting Shop in the background, 1962
Brymbo is a village and community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. It lies in the hilly country to the west of Wrexham city, largely surrounded by farmland.
Former Baptist chapel in Brymbo
The older parts of Brymbo Steelworks in the 1970s, showing its restricted hillside site, with the melting shop (centre) and blast furnace (top) next to the village (top right). The banks shown in the foreground had covered most of the former village of Lodge.
St Mary's, built in 1872 on the outskirts of the village after its predecessor was demolished due to subsidence
The Penrhos Engine House, built c.1794 by John Wilkinson