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Haygate Road, TELFORD, TF1 1QA

The central, redbrick part of this building is an early 19th century house. Its construction date is not recorded but it was Grade II listed https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101033319-the-mount-wellington#.YvKVLnbMLIU & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1033319 in 1983 and is now converted to flats and apartments.

The former (and well loved) Clifton cinema, Bridge Road, Wellington. Now a soft furnishing emporium.

Tandoori and Indian cuisine restaurant on the corner of Bridge Road and Walker Street. The building used to be Porter's Ale House.

A clear OS cutmark on the wall of The Haygate pub; originally levelled in 1966 at 96.55m above Ordnance Datum Newlyn. Updated note Jan 2019 - this mark has probably now been destroyed. The current edition of the local paper reports that the pub is being demolished this week, and the mark's quite likely a goner as a result. (I can confirm in 2022 that is the case; the pub has now been demolished)

Used car business viewed across Wrekin Road from the corner of Haygate Road.

Located on the corner of Rowland Gate and Bridge Road, Ringway House houses Telford and Wrekin Council's Behaviour Support Service.

Insurance brokers' office at 48A Walker Street.

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.

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 Image