Under the Hollywood Spotlight, a Fading Welsh Town Is Reborn
In the Welsh language, the virtually unpronounceable word “hirath” (pronounced here-aith) describes a mixture of nostalgia and longing for a time that can never be recreated. For Wrexham, a working-class town in north Wales, it was a feeling that came to define a post-industrial malaise in the 1980s, as the last remaining coal mines closed their dilapidated gates and later, the furnaces of the…
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