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Sundorne Road at Albert Road
Image: © Peter Whatley
Taken: 23 Mar 2012
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Former water tower, Albert Road, Shrewsbury
Not an inaccessible garden shed. This was part of the surrounding 1920s estate's district heating system.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 16 May 2014
0.11 miles
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Houses on Lesley Owen Way, Shrewsbury
Image: © TCExplorer
Taken: 7 Sep 2023
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Information board at Ditherington on the old Shrewsbury Canal
Wow, what a great info board. Turns out that a canal ran almost into the heart of Shrewsbury; namely the Shrewsbury Canal, which joined the Newport Canal and was linked with the wider canal network from there. This is one conspicuous section, still extant today.
The Shrewsbury and Newport Canal Trust (SNCT) are working to restore it all. Wow, a massive undertaking.
They plan to start here at Sundorne and Ditherington, and restore the stretch running into town, which originally had its terminus at the Buttermarket in Shrewsbury. Then they hope to restore eastwards to Newport, Shropshire and reunite the Shrewsbury and Newport Canals, which in turn linked with the famous Shroppie, the Shropshire Union Canal.
Built in 1797 the Shrewsbury Canal linked Shrewsbury with the Shroppie and the wider national canal network and served coal mines and ironworks at Oakengates, Ketley, Donnington Woods and Trench.
It is 17 miles long, incorporated 11 locks and one inclined plane. It used horse-drawn barges and trains of boats.
It passes the Dithergton Flaxmill (the world's first iron-framed building) and used the Longdon-on-Tern aqueduct, which was Thomas Telford's very first aqueduct.
Hmm, interesting. Thank you compilers of this board. Great photos too.
Image: © Jeremy Bolwell
Taken: 6 Sep 2020
0.13 miles
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Riverside path beside the River Severn on the outskirts of Shrewsbury
A lovely spot. Cormorants fish here year round.
Image: © Jeremy Bolwell
Taken: 7 Mar 2021
0.14 miles
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Sundorne Crescent from Sundorne Avenue
This is the west arm of the crescent
Image: © John Firth
Taken: 26 Nov 2011
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Public footpath along the riverside
On the NW bank of the Severn near to the Heathgates area.
Image: © Richard Law
Taken: 5 Apr 2015
0.14 miles
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Scene in Sundorne
Tax Assist Accountants, an accountancy franchise I believe are on the corner here.
Image: © Jeremy Bolwell
Taken: 6 Sep 2020
0.15 miles
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Morrisons Traffic Lights, Whitchurch Road
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 11 Apr 2016
0.15 miles
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Sentinel Works, Shrewsbury
Once an old waggon works building railway waggons, lorries and the like, Wikipedia article here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel_Waggon_Works#:~:text=Diesel%20Lorries,engined%20lorries%2C%20buses%20and%20locomotives.
Image: © Jeremy Bolwell
Taken: 21 Jun 2020
0.15 miles