Not strictly 1876 or Wrexham, but while I was researching the background to my second Wrexham Victorian crime novel, Death Along the Dee, I came across this slightly strange - and vaguely related - story. During the English Civil Wars, Royalist Chester (England, of course) had been besieged by Cromwell's Parliamentarians from July 1643 until … [Read more...] about 1867’s Raid On Chester Castle