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Ringway House, Wellington
Located on the corner of Rowland Gate and Bridge Road, Ringway House
houses Telford and Wrekin Council's Behaviour Support Service.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 10 Oct 2013
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Taj Mahal, Wellington
Tandoori and Indian cuisine restaurant on the corner of Bridge Road and Walker Street.
The building used to be Porter's Ale House.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 10 Oct 2013
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Mid Counties Brokers, Wellington
Insurance brokers' office at 48A Walker Street.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 10 Oct 2013
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Walker Street, Wellington
Modern Walker Street is a fairly nondescript road off Wellington town centre comprising a mixture of businesses and residential properties. In this view the single storey building houses insurance brokers. The origin of the name is from the time when fleeces were trodden or 'walked' here; the location was also used for sheep sales.
Image: © Stephen McKay
Taken: 15 Jun 2021
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Walker Street Wellington
Image: © Roy Hughes
Taken: 13 Nov 2021
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Walker St. Wellington
An attractive building in Walker Street, Wellington. Let's hope that the decorators are due soon. Further along is the former General Post Office.
Image: © Gordon Cragg
Taken: 21 Apr 2009
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Site of the Wellington Workhouse, Walker Street
Probably not the original buildings of 1797, but this terrace of houses lies on the site of the Union Workhouse for the town, which was moved here from Street Lane (Watling Street) at that date. It was enlarged in the late 1830s or early 1840s to house up to 160 paupers, who would have been working at a variety of (rather menial) tasks such as cooking, cleaning, stone-breaking, animal husbandry, tailoring and so on. Workhouse life was not generally a happy one. The site was used later as offices by the Poor Law Union administrators, and subsequently as part of the Union Brewery.
The 1861 census of inmates records some comments and reasons for residency in the workhouse; these include "Old age and general debility", "Blind", "Unable to work in consequence of bad health" (all fair enough) but also "Had an illegitimate son", "An idiot from birth" and "A person of weak intellect"... these were undoubtedly different times.
In the mid 1870s, this building was replaced by a new, much larger workhouse on Street Lane (speculatively on the site of the original workhouse there) which is now used as The Wrekin Professional Centre, housing a number of care and medical facilities
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Image: © Richard Law
Taken: 31 Jan 2019
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Former Clifton Cinema, Wellington
The former (and well loved) Clifton cinema, Bridge Road, Wellington. Now a soft furnishing emporium.
Image: © Gordon Cragg
Taken: 22 Apr 2009
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Former Union Workhouse, Wellington
The brown plaque http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3705356 on the wall of the Walker Street building records that this was the site of Union Workhouse from 1797-1877, then the Union Brewery and latterly part of the public library.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 10 Oct 2013
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Jayne's Fishing Tackle & Gun Shop, Wellington
Viewed across Market Street. A Wilkinson store is on the left.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 10 Oct 2013
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