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Roberts Road, TELFORD, TF7 5JL

A rather inaccessible benchmark on the gable wall of the house; originally levelled at 131.549m above Ordnance Datum Newlyn.

Slightly more than a year after Image was taken, pretty much all the conversion of the former Lincoln Grange (formerly the Madeley Valley Union Workhouse) has now been completed, and most of the houses are occupied. Seen here is the eastern wing of former wards, which lie behind the red skips in the photo above; and shows the standard to which the conversion has been done. A full description of the buildings and their history is at https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101391962-lincoln-grange-formerly-madeley-union-workhouse-the-gorge#.XqgpXWhKjcs & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1391962 & http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Madeley/

A landmark pub at the top of Madeley Hill, and a Grade II listed building https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101207739-the-beacon-public-house-madeley#.WWPq5NQrLGg granted in 1983. It's no longer trading; the site is surrounded by hoardings and fencework, and it looks like conversion to flats or similar may well be the next phase of this place's life.

Conversion to residential work at the former Lincoln Grange nursing home is well underway, turning the one-time Beeches Hospital and Madeley Union workhouse into a series of apartments and homes. The whole building was give a Grade II listing https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101391962-lincoln-grange-formerly-madeley-union-workhouse-the-gorge#.XJM-_Cj7RPY in 2007, and is thought to be the country's first 'pavilion-plan' workhouse, built in the early 1870s. The 1881 census records a Master & Matron, plus one nurse, who looked after 112 residents aged between 20 and their early 80s.

Lincoln Grange was most recently a nursing home, but prior to that had been the Beeches Hospital since the 1930s, and was built originally in the mid 1870s as the Madeley Union Workhouse. It's currently being converted to residential use. The site is quite extensive, and is subject to a Grade II listing https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101391962-lincoln-grange-formerly-madeley-union-workhouse-the-gorge#.XI65hCj7TIU which was granted in 2007. It was built to replace the nearby Image, which was seriously overcrowded, and by 1881 housed a total of 112 male & female residents, aged between 20 and early 80s, mostly described as 'paupers', along with a few of their young offspring. Many were locals, hailing from Madeley, Ironbridge, Bridgnorth, Broseley, Much Wenlock, Wellington, Shifnal, Shrewsbury etc, but a few came from further afield, and included one chap from Llanelli, a Jarrow man, a Yorkshireman from Harrogate and even one George Harley from Kinsale in County Cork, Ireland.