Denbighshire Technical Institute

In 1927 the science and art classes were absorbed into a new Technical Institute funded by the Miners' Welfare Fund.

This occupied the former Wrexham Infirmary site on Regent Street, now the home of NEWI's North Wales School of Art & Design.

As demand for courses grew the site was extended along Regent Street and Bradley Road.

Students would come to courses from across North Wales and the English counties of Cheshire and Shropshire. As the demand for places grew, the Institute began to run out of space.

The solution lay in the hands of a Wrexham businessman and governor of the Institute, William Aston, after whom the main hall on the Plas Coch campus is named. He provided the Institute with the use of a number of huts in Caxton Place, opposite the Regent Street campus.