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Underhill Street, BRIDGNORTH, WV16 4BB

Art work celebrating Richard Trevithick's locomotive - Catch Me Who Can, demonstrated in London 1808.

This public art is presented in the pleasant garden area by Underhill Street near the caves and tunnels of Lavington's Hole. There twelve of these train sculptures placed around the town, each decorated by a different local artist. This one is called "Tracks in Time" and was painted by Kathryn O'Connor. The sculptures are cast in aluminium and celebrate the famous Catch Me Who Can engine from 1808. From Wikipedia: "Catch Me Who Can was the fourth and last steam railway locomotive created by the inventor and mining engineer Richard Trevithick. It was an evolution of three earlier locomotives which had been built for Coalbrookdale, Penydarren ironworks and Wylam colliery. Demonstration runs began in July 1808, and Catch Me Who Can was the first locomotive in the world to haul fare-paying passengers." https://www.shropshirestar.com/entertainment/bridgnorth-entertainment/2018/03/19/the-sculpture-now-arriving-at-bridgnorth---/ https://www.shropshirestar.com/entertainment/bridgnorth-entertainment/2018/06/15/full-steam-ahead-for-bridgnorth-sculpture-trail---with-pictures/ The Bridgnorth Sandstone is a soft, brick red, commonly buff-mottled, Permian sandstone not widely used for building in comparison to the Carboniferous and Triassic red sandstones of the Shropshire and neighbouring counties.

This public art is presented in the pleasant garden area by Underhill Street near the caves and tunnels of Lavington's Hole. There twelve of these train sculptures placed around the town, each decorated by a different local artist. This one is called "Tracks in Time" and was painted by Kathryn O'Connor. The sculptures are cast in aluminium and celebrate the famous Catch Me Who Can engine from 1808. From Wikipedia: "Catch Me Who Can was the fourth and last steam railway locomotive created by the inventor and mining engineer Richard Trevithick. It was an evolution of three earlier locomotives which had been built for Coalbrookdale, Penydarren ironworks and Wylam colliery. Demonstration runs began in July 1808, and Catch Me Who Can was the first locomotive in the world to haul fare-paying passengers." https://www.shropshirestar.com/entertainment/bridgnorth-entertainment/2018/03/19/the-sculpture-now-arriving-at-bridgnorth---/ https://www.shropshirestar.com/entertainment/bridgnorth-entertainment/2018/06/15/full-steam-ahead-for-bridgnorth-sculpture-trail---with-pictures/ The Bridgnorth Sandstone is a soft, brick red, commonly buff-mottled, Permian sandstone not widely used for building in comparison to the Carboniferous and Triassic red sandstones of the Shropshire and neighbouring counties.

This exposure is by the caves and tunnels of Lavington's Hole by Underhill Street in Bridgnorth. The Bridgnorth rock is a soft, brick red, commonly buff-mottled, Permian sandstone not widely used for building in comparison to the Carboniferous and Triassic red sandstones of the Shropshire and neighbouring counties.

Even in late autumn on a dull day these landscaped gardens by the former tunnels and cave dwellings in Underhill Street are very attractive. See Lavington's Hole for more information. https://www.aboutbridgnorth.com/lavingtons-hole/ Location: Image]

The many scrapings and tunnels along the Underhill part of Bridgnorth, part of the efforts to seize the castle above in the Civil War. See Image] for the Colonel's cave.

During the Civil War the Royalist defenders of Bridgnorth Castle held out until a tunnel was dug into the sandstone beneath their magazine by Colonel Lavington.

Colonel Lavington was the man who decided to attack Bridgnorth Castle in the Civil War by undermining the soft, sandy base it was built on. The explosives were not lit as the threat forced the occupants to cease resisting. See Image] for another look at the many excavations in this area.

Lavington's Hole is a Civil War tunnel dug into the sandstone cliffs under Bridgnorth Castle. The tunnel was built under the direction of a Parliamentarian engineer named Colonel Lavington in 1646. 69 feet of tunnel was dug but was not completed as the Royalists surrendered on Sunday 26th April 1646. The tunnel entrance is now covered by an iron gate, and is located in a public garden along Underhill Street.