Pontfadog School, Ceiriog Valley - Jan 2025

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Pontfadog school was built in 1908 at the instigation of Lloyd George’s newly created Welsh Department of Education at Westminster, one of the first “new” schools where children were encouraged to speak their mother tongue and where Welsh culture was embraced Wrexham Council sold Pontfadog school by auction in March 2023 for £216,000. It was bought by Kirsty Williams, local resident and member of the community group, who recruited the help of three other local women to raise the balance; Edith Jones, Isabelle Waine and Alma Pierson

 

[mookster]

I love these little Welsh schools, there's almost as many of them as there are chapels.

 

[MrDevla]

I remember working here a few years back when we had the maintenance contract with Wrexham Council. There were many of these small schools with a couple of classrooms dotted around the county.

 

[Bikin Glynn]

not a bad Victorian sch that, most empty ones are wrecked

 

[Calamity Jane]

Surprised by the cleanness. Some nice features in there. Subway tiles always a winner if og