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3 unusual facts about Rhosllannerchrugog


Rhos

Rhosllannerchrugog, a village in the County Borough of Wrexham in northeast Wales

Rhosllannerchrugog

This event was immortalised in the poem and song "The Cross Foxes" by Harri Webb, remembering the night when In Rhosllannerchrugog we drank the pub dry.

In September 2006, letters were sent by Rhos Community Council to relatives of people buried in the village's cemetery, where former Miss World Rosemarie Frankland is buried, asking them to limit the number of floral tributes left at grave sites.


Hooson

Isaac Daniel Hooson (1880–1948), solicitor and poet from Rhosllannerchrugog, Denbighshire, Wales

Miners' institute

By the eve of the Second World War there were more than a hundred miners' institutes, those of note include 'Y Stiwt' in Rhosllannerchrugog, the Oakdale Miners' Institute, the Parc and Dare in the Rhondda and the Abercynon Miners' Institute.


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