A scrapbook containing newspaper cuttings, programmes etc. relating to cultural and other events in the Brymbo area and to the Davies and Charles families. A few references to the Brymbo Industrial Co-operative Society are included.
Davies and Charles (Brymbo) Family Papers,
Papers of the Charles and Davies families of Brymbo, including verses, articles and notes by Daniel Davies, [c.1888]-[1920s], and scrapbooks containing material of Davies and Charles family and Brymbo area interest, 1841-[1960s].
Davies family, (of Brymbo)
Scrapbook of John Charles (d. 1941), The Old Vicarage, Brymbo, containing printed ephemera, covering cultural and other activities - mainly choral, musical and religious - in the Brymbo district. It contains newspaper cuttings, posters, programmes of events, etc., and subjects or institutions referred to include elections, the Prince of Wales Lodge, Brymbo (Independent Order of Odd-fellows, Manchester Unity Friendly Society), the Coedpoeth Wesleyan Methodist Circuit and Bethel Wesleyan Church, Brymbo.
Scrapbook [The Journal of the Iron & Steel Institute No. 11 (1897)] of Goronwy H. Charles, The Old Vicarage, Brymbo, son-in-law of Daniel Davies, containing newspaper cuttings, some relating to the Davies and Charles families, and family and other correspondence.
Verses, articles and notes by Daniel Davies of Jessamine Cottage, Lodge, Brymbo, a winding engineman at Plas Power Colliery, Southsea, Wrexham. Many of the verses, composed for social and other occasions, are written on railway wagon dockets used to describe the contents and destination of wagon-loads of coal. Welsh and English.