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Horse Racing and Bull Baiting in Oakengates
March 10, 2024
Local historian and blogger, Anth Rowley, takes a trip ...
Telford’s small part in Car Manufacturing
October 20, 2021
In a corner of Stafford Park in 1973, a factory opened up making a small sports car. Designed by Tom Killeen, a former Jensen engineer and draughtsman with a specialism in developing monocoque-bodies sports cars, the Innes Lee Scorpion was born....
Without slavery, would Abraham Darby have built the Ironbridge?
June 14, 2020
Without slavery, would Abraham Darby have built the ...
Remembering the Coalport ferry disaster
October 22, 2019
Remembering the Coalport ferry disaster In the evening of ...
On the Trail of the Telford Squid
April 13, 2016
Every once in a while, you hear about some tunnels that lead from some old manor house to a nearby church or somesuch. More often than not, it’s complete hogwash but near Telford Shopping Centre there is such a tunnel....
ATV News Footage of Early Telford
January 3, 2016
Some film from the fabulous MACE archive of Telford in the 60s, 70s and 80s....