The 'Hot' Pool
Grid reference: SJ288536
Co-ordinates: 328822, 353618
Bearing: N
The 'Hot' Pool, which stood immediately to the East of Brymbo Pool.
Once the water from The Pool had done its job at the steelworks, it was pumped back up to here, along with whatever nasty substances had got into it on its journey. Not a place for bathing.
It was filled in during the landscaping work of the mid-1990s (see below).
Grid reference: SJ288536
Co-ordinates: 328820, 353615
Bearing: N
The site of the 'Hot' Pool, as it looked in the mid-2000s from more or less the same spot as the previous picture. It's now the location of the playing fields known as Bronwen's Green in memory of Councillor Bronwen Greenaway, whose persistent attempts to get things moving as regards redevelopment of the old steelworks site always ran into the obstructive, idle and stupid behaviour of the Council, the developers, the quangos and the government.
The crest of Offa's Dyke can be seen top right, the new houses at Mount Zion top left, and Hope Mountain behind the pylons in the distance.
© Nigel Stapley