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Monday, September 16, 2024

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History: New York Times Perspective

The feature on Telford from an April 1975 edition of The New York Times. I really doubt many people in Telford will have seen this until now.

B&M Closes but what was it before?
07/08/2024
The old B&M store in New Street, Wellington is now ...
Horse Racing and Bull Baiting in Oakengates
10/03/2024
Local historian and blogger, Anth Rowley, takes a trip ...
Telford’s small part in Car Manufacturing
20/10/2021
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?
14/06/2020
Without slavery, would Abraham Darby have built the ...
Remembering the Coalport ferry disaster
22/10/2019
Remembering the Coalport ferry disaster In the evening of ...
On the Trail of the Telford Squid
13/04/2016
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....