Regent Street
Hope Street becomes Regent Street by the pub. Regent Street was so named in the 1850s when this part of Wrexham underwent a building boom. The Catholic Cathedral, St Mark's Church and the Museum were all built at this time. Just off this street was the historic property of Bryn-y-ffynnon. The local historian, A.N.Palmer quotes a 19th Century description of the house:
"After going through the lodge there was a broad gravel walk to the front door of Bryn-y-ffynnon and on the right a raised embankment, covered with grass, with clumps of trees and shrubs and flower beds; on the left hand was a flat lawn with a small fish pond in it; this lawn reached as far as the lime trees. At the back of the embankment was a kitchen garden, covering the whole of the ground from the lodge to Regent Street and [what is now] Hill Street, in which was a large number of choice fruit trees…"
Bryn-y-ffynnon house was demolished in 1915. The house and gardens stood where Wrexham Vic Youth Club and the Yales café bar and nightclub now stand. Regent Street has changed much: McDonalds is on the site of the former Seion Chapel, the demolition of which Pevsner describes as "a sad loss."
Continue up Regent Street till you reach the Museum.
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