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The Curse of the Wheelie Bin!
What could be an attractive street scene, at this recent development at Church Road, Wrockwardine Wood, Telford, is blighted by the accursed wheelie bins.
Why,Oh,Why do they not make provision for the storage of these bins when they design new property?
Image: © Gordon Cragg
Taken: 16 Apr 2009
0.06 miles
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Church Road, Wrockwardine Wood, Telford
Church Road, Wrockwardine Wood, Telford looking North, from the side of the churchyard.
Image: © Gordon Cragg
Taken: 16 Apr 2009
0.07 miles
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Old Mill, Wrockwardine Wood
This old flour mill at Wrockwardine Wood, was built alongside the old canal about 1818. In use as a mill until the thirties, it has now been converted into apartments.
Image: © Gordon Cragg
Taken: Unknown
0.08 miles
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The Old Mill
A former flour mill of 1818 on the extinct canal between Wrockwardine Wood and Trench http://www.telford.org.uk/ and which was Grade II listed https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101292872-the-mill-wrockwardine-wood-and-trench in 1983; it's now converted to apartments in the main part of the building, and a police centre in the small annexe on the left-hand side.
Image: © Richard Law
Taken: 12 Mar 2011
0.09 miles
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Wrockwardine Wood Infants' School
Image: © Richard Law
Taken: 12 Mar 2011
0.09 miles
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Holy Trinity Church, Wrockwardine Wood, Telford
Holy Trinity Church.
Image: © Gordon Cragg
Taken: 10 May 2003
0.12 miles
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Remains of former canal bridge, Wrockwardine Wood
The child here is standing on the deck of a former canal bridge. The canal has been filled in, although had I got here about five years earlier it would probably have still been in water. This was the Wombridge Canal, opened in 1788, which extended westwards from the previously isolated Donnington Wood Canal to Wombridge, and later about 1795 was connected by the Trench Inclined Plane to the Shrewsbury Canal at Trench Lock. The canal here was used by tub boats, measuring about 20ft x 6ft, and with capacity for about 8 tons of coal. The main traffic was coal, westwards from the collieries at Donnington Wood to Shrewsbury. At Trench Lock, the cargo was transferred from the tub boats into special 'narrow' narrowboats for onward shipment to Shrewsbury. Unfortunately the zombies of the Telford New Town development agency ignored all the rich industrial heritage in this area, and it has now all disappeared submerged in a sea of mediocrity.
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton
Taken: 12 Apr 1963
0.12 miles
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Church Road, Wrockwardine Wood, Telford
Church Road, Wrockwardine Wood, Telford looking South from opposite the churchyard.
Image: © Gordon Cragg
Taken: 16 Apr 2009
0.13 miles
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Holy Trinity Church, Wrockwardine Wood
Built in 1833 by an architect from Madeley, and Grade II listed https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101351998-holy-trinity-church-wrockwardine-wood-and-trench#.XBvJk9SLTGg in 1983.
Image: © Richard Law
Taken: 20 Dec 2018
0.13 miles
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OS benchmark - Trench, Holy Trinity Church
An OS cutmark on the wall of the church; originally levelled at 99.389m above Ordnance Datum Newlyn.
Image: © Richard Law
Taken: 10 Aug 2014
0.13 miles