Wrexham used to be a town of culture and interest, now it is just dire. Successive councils have removed buildings of interest and replaced them with faceless units that, within a few years, lay run down and empty. How can they keep getting these things so wrong, surely they should be working for the benefit of the town and its people?
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Barbara Davies
10 years ago
Grove Park School is an important part of Wrexham's history.
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Rick Bond
10 years ago
Just another step in the plan to wipe out anything of architectural importance in Wrexham. I remember coming to Wrexham in 1960. What a lovely little Market Town it was.
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Myra Smith
10 years ago
Former pupil 1962-1967
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Sue McVay
10 years ago
Disgusted by the plans to demolish such a beautiful building. Wrexham council you should be ashamed at your underhanded tactics. What is this? A game of who can get the biggest backhander.
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Miss deboo and miss mcvay
10 years ago
Save our heritage and no demolition
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Sian MHJones
10 years ago
If this was the right decision involving an unsafe or unimportant building, AND the community had been convinced, and involved, in the decision then... maybe. But it is not the right decision. Does the building really have no merit? Or do WCBC just not know how to consult, or make decisions? Or are they just anti Grove Park? Does the name Grove Park conjure bad memories because they were such good schools?
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Marilyn roberts
10 years ago
Is there no pride left in Wrexham council members?
Are they not proud of Wrexham's heritage, is their only aim to destroy all that Wrexham was and could be again. Saving Grove Park girls and any other historical buildings that remain still standing is an important step towards saving Wrexham's heritage which is something we should all be proud of. Step back and think what do you want people to see when they live in or visit our town. Old buildings give us a focus on what we were as a community and what we achieved and should inspire us to invest as wisely as our ancestors when it comes to town planning.
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Graham Wiseman
10 years ago
Wrexham
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Trish Reid
10 years ago
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Linda Webb
10 years ago
My Mum went to Grove Park School and would have been very upset to hear about this.
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Carol
10 years ago
I attended Grove Park between 1961 and 1966. Great education with strict discipline - couldn't have been a better school. This beautiful school should NOT be demolished. The Council should be ashamed of themselves in letting the school run down.
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S Bowden
10 years ago
Wrexham council seem determined to destroy / removed all of our historic buildings. We should aim to be a historic market town to encourage visitors, instead of an empty tin / breeze block city.
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Susan Jones
10 years ago
Attendes from 1954-1959.
Very strict but had a wonderful education.
Sad to hear that the powers to be! did not have a use for it.
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Sian Guntrip
10 years ago
Slowly destroying Wrexham with yet again of another beautiful building to be pulled down..shame on you Wrexham Council you are stuffing up yet again!
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Anonymous
10 years ago
This is a beauful building being demolished due to financial reasons alone. The cost of Wrexhams heritage spans far beyond cost, and we have as a town already lost over the years a great many irreplaceable buildings. Replaced by modern bland buildings. Lets hope our voice makes a difference.
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Susan Kay Hewlett
10 years ago
Worth saving - must be suitable for some use. Happy times there 1961-1968, Miss Copland, Miss Brown, Miss Llewelyn, Mr and Mrs Pritchard, Mr Tucker, many more excellent teachers, .all great people .
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R Bedford A Bedford
10 years ago
Why would you want to destroy your heritage, You will be depriving future generations.
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Alun Hughes
10 years ago
I went to Wilmington, North Carolina in the autumn. This is a faded town that people had written off. Many local people took the correct view that you could go like lemmings into total decline or stand up and revive your town. Our tour group met local personality the very aged Bob Jenkins. His view was that the new and the old had to be cultivated hand in hand if tourism and prosperity was to return. In terms of historic buildings he argued “One, don’t tear anything down. Two, maintain the character of what’s here. And three, use it, but use it creatively”.
Of course, if you have no sense of history and architectural beauty this message is not for you. Whilst I understand the facts of the past mis-management of the Grove Park School plot, and the fact that silly money has been spent, why oh why is demolition not the last option when others have been put on the table
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Wayne Blythen
10 years ago
It's imperative that the former school building remains. Wrexham as lost much of its historical sites (Acton Hall, Alexandre School and countless other properties). If we few Wrexham today what have we got? I spoke to an individual who came back to Wrexham to visit family. They hadn't been to Wrexham since the early eighties. They where dismayed and horrified by the change to a once beautiful architectural town. To use their terminology Wrexham is now a mish - mash of pig pen-esk buildings, devoid of warmth and character!!! So it's imperative what little Wrexham as got left should remain, and we mustn't forget also the properties on Grovenor Road which have been left to decline also.
Wrexham used to be a town of culture and interest, now it is just dire. Successive councils have removed buildings of interest and replaced them with faceless units that, within a few years, lay run down and empty. How can they keep getting these things so wrong, surely they should be working for the benefit of the town and its people?
Grove Park School is an important part of Wrexham's history.
Just another step in the plan to wipe out anything of architectural importance in Wrexham. I remember coming to Wrexham in 1960. What a lovely little Market Town it was.
Former pupil 1962-1967
Disgusted by the plans to demolish such a beautiful building. Wrexham council you should be ashamed at your underhanded tactics. What is this? A game of who can get the biggest backhander.
Save our heritage and no demolition
If this was the right decision involving an unsafe or unimportant building, AND the community had been convinced, and involved, in the decision then... maybe. But it is not the right decision. Does the building really have no merit? Or do WCBC just not know how to consult, or make decisions? Or are they just anti Grove Park? Does the name Grove Park conjure bad memories because they were such good schools?
Is there no pride left in Wrexham council members? Are they not proud of Wrexham's heritage, is their only aim to destroy all that Wrexham was and could be again. Saving Grove Park girls and any other historical buildings that remain still standing is an important step towards saving Wrexham's heritage which is something we should all be proud of. Step back and think what do you want people to see when they live in or visit our town. Old buildings give us a focus on what we were as a community and what we achieved and should inspire us to invest as wisely as our ancestors when it comes to town planning.
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My Mum went to Grove Park School and would have been very upset to hear about this.
I attended Grove Park between 1961 and 1966. Great education with strict discipline - couldn't have been a better school. This beautiful school should NOT be demolished. The Council should be ashamed of themselves in letting the school run down.
Wrexham council seem determined to destroy / removed all of our historic buildings. We should aim to be a historic market town to encourage visitors, instead of an empty tin / breeze block city.
Attendes from 1954-1959. Very strict but had a wonderful education. Sad to hear that the powers to be! did not have a use for it.
Slowly destroying Wrexham with yet again of another beautiful building to be pulled down..shame on you Wrexham Council you are stuffing up yet again!
This is a beauful building being demolished due to financial reasons alone. The cost of Wrexhams heritage spans far beyond cost, and we have as a town already lost over the years a great many irreplaceable buildings. Replaced by modern bland buildings. Lets hope our voice makes a difference.
Worth saving - must be suitable for some use. Happy times there 1961-1968, Miss Copland, Miss Brown, Miss Llewelyn, Mr and Mrs Pritchard, Mr Tucker, many more excellent teachers, .all great people .
Why would you want to destroy your heritage, You will be depriving future generations.
I went to Wilmington, North Carolina in the autumn. This is a faded town that people had written off. Many local people took the correct view that you could go like lemmings into total decline or stand up and revive your town. Our tour group met local personality the very aged Bob Jenkins. His view was that the new and the old had to be cultivated hand in hand if tourism and prosperity was to return. In terms of historic buildings he argued “One, don’t tear anything down. Two, maintain the character of what’s here. And three, use it, but use it creatively”. Of course, if you have no sense of history and architectural beauty this message is not for you. Whilst I understand the facts of the past mis-management of the Grove Park School plot, and the fact that silly money has been spent, why oh why is demolition not the last option when others have been put on the table
It's imperative that the former school building remains. Wrexham as lost much of its historical sites (Acton Hall, Alexandre School and countless other properties). If we few Wrexham today what have we got? I spoke to an individual who came back to Wrexham to visit family. They hadn't been to Wrexham since the early eighties. They where dismayed and horrified by the change to a once beautiful architectural town. To use their terminology Wrexham is now a mish - mash of pig pen-esk buildings, devoid of warmth and character!!! So it's imperative what little Wrexham as got left should remain, and we mustn't forget also the properties on Grovenor Road which have been left to decline also.