IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Patchett Drive, TELFORD, TF1 5SG
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Patchett Drive, TF1 5SG by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (15 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
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Sommerfeld Road, Trench Lock
The Blockleys brick factory is on the left.
Image: © Mark Anderson
Taken: 31 Aug 2023
0.05 miles
3
The Blue Pig, Trench Lock
At the bottom of the former Trench Incline, Shrewsbury canal
Image: © al partington
Taken: 8 Feb 2006
0.10 miles
4
The 'Shropshire Arms' and Trench Incline, Shropshire
This most interesting photograph, taken some 40 years ago, shows the Shropshire Arms on the left, with the remains of the Trench canal incline to the right. By this incline, tub boats from the high level canal system of the Shropshire coalfield were lowered into the Shropshire Canal (not to be confused with the much later Shropshire Union Canal). At the foot of the incline, the coal was transshipped into special 'narrow' narrow boats, only 6ft 4ins wide to negotiate the very narrow locks of the Trench Branch. Seen behind the pub are cottages known as Trench Pool Bank, already unoccupied. All around here is now much changed: the pub is now the 'Blue Pig' (see the other picture for this square). The cottages have been demolished, and a dual-carriageway road now runs where the incline once was.
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton
Taken: 10 Aug 1966
0.13 miles
5
Trench Pool, Shropshire
Once a canal reservoir: later used for fishing and by the local Sea Cadets.
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton
Taken: 15 Aug 1963
0.13 miles
6
The Blue Pig Pub Sign Capewell Road
Not the type of Blue Pig that the pub was named after, that should be a piece of pig iron! Image http://ne-telford-pubs.fotopic.net/
Image: © Gordon Cragg
Taken: 20 Nov 2008
0.15 miles
7
'Shropshire Arms' and Trench Inclined Plane
This was taken in 1967, and comparing it with my 1966 photograph shows that the empty cottages have now been demolished and the site cleared. Although today in 2007 a dual carriageway occupies the site of the inclined plane, the pub. has survived almost unchanged, as the 'Blue Pig'.
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton
Taken: 16 Apr 1967
0.15 miles
8
The Blue Pig Capewell Road
Formerly known as The Shropshire Arms, in spite of the Pub Sign, the name "Blue Pig" has nothing to do with farming but refers to the pig iron produced in the iron works that used to be nearby. Image http://ne-telford-pubs.fotopic.net/
Image: © Gordon Cragg
Taken: 20 Nov 2008
0.15 miles
9
The 'Blue Pig', Trench, Shropshire
Bearing in mind the historic nature of this former canal pub, it seems a pity that its name was changed. See also Image
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton
Taken: 13 Oct 1985
0.15 miles
10
Trench Pool
Constructed by the Shrewsbury Canal Company as a feeder, Trench Pool still exists. In 1963, it was used by the local Sea Cadets, who kept their whaler in the dilapidated boat house on the right. Fishing, at least by children, was allowed.
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton
Taken: 15 Sep 1963
0.16 miles