WREXHAM. A Trip Down The Borderlands Line.

Notice Board at the Ty Pawb Arts centre and venue on Charles Street. This used to be the People’s Market but after a period clossure it is now reborn in this new guise.

A few days back I took a trip down to Wrexham. The weather around these parts has slipped back into unfriendly/uncooperative mode but I didn’t feel like sitting in the house staring out of the window. It’s a relatively easy journey and it meant that I wouldn’t be sat sitting at home twiddling my thumbs. It was to be a day out with no set agenda, just go, see, eat some food, perhaps drink some beer.

The route I took was by train out through Liverpool, a change of trains at Bidston then down the spine of the Wirral to the now much reduce terminus of Wrexham Central now surrounded by the Island Green Retail Park. A brisk walk from there took me to The Cafe de Gales on Church Street, right by the impressive St. Giles Cathedral. This church is the site of the tomb of Elihu Yale, founder of Yale University in the States.

The cafe is a favourite, a delightful place, old school but in the good way that these places can often be. The cold weather prompted me towards the soup and sandwich combo, egg mayo on brown with a bowl of filling potato & cauliflower soup. From there it was walkabout time.