Looking back at a photograph of Lambpit Street in Wrexham as it was ‘pre-development’ , when you look about what that street has been replaced with, the Kremlin with the Berlin Wall opposite, is it any wonder that people are disgusted by the ill-thought out replacements? With the destruction of the Vegetable Market and its surrounding streets, the heart was ripped out of the market town that Wrexham was, and its original character destroyed forever.
Parts of the town are constantly being ‘removed’ but either nothing, or buildings of low architectural value put in the place of buildings that held character and history. The town looks very much like any other town throughout the UK, with identical building materials being used on buildings that are twins of the same universal style. Even the paving on the streets is exactly the same. We have been robbed of character and identity in pursuit of ‘modernisation’ and, let’s be honest, the town looks nothing like a city. In fact, Wrexham looked more like a high status small city a hundred years ago, the changes forced on it have downgraded it to an Ikea version of what it once was.
