Well, this place has become totally iconic around the world, as you can see now. ithink, more famous, you d have to say, than the rovers return or the queen vic. but, you know, this story isn t just about the present and the future. it s also about recognising the club s historical connection with the community of this town, now a city indeed. and at the centre of that history is the former mining community, which is remembered herejust literally a stone s throw from the ground, at the miners rescue station. archive: the most terrible colliery | disaster this country has suffered | since the war was at gresford near wrexham. here they pay tribute to the 266 miners who died at gresford colliery in wrexham in 1931i. many were football fans, who d swapped shifts to work that fateful friday night so they could go to the football the following day. it affected the whole town, so everybody you talk to will say, oh, yeah, my great granddad or my uncles, aunties. there s a connection for eve ....