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Aerial photograph, taken in 1970, of the Firestone tyre Factory, Wrexham. The factory closed in the 1970's.

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J B N Gammond's profile picture
Great photograph, which also highlights the dispersed buildings of the former Royal Ordnance Factory Marchwiel. Now the site of the imaginatively named HMP Berwyn. Probably the one Welsh place name that no one would worry about being consigned to the history books.

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