This week’s pictures from the past

The old Coalport ferry on the River Severn.Quite a lot of Victorians - we are assuming this picture is from that era - managed to get themselves recorded for posterity in this photo of the old Coalport ferry on the River Severn.

The ferry is of course in the foreground, but on the riverbank there’s a horse and trap, and some younger residents, too, on the left.

This is one of those photos which, although it bears no date, has a very old feel to it, so we’re going to guess it is from the 1870s. It came to us via Shrewsbury historian David Trumper.

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  1. Jonathan Elcock said: Aug 22nd, 2008 at 17:06

    This is not the Coalport Ferry, the building on the left hand side of the picture is ‘The Bird in Hand’ public house on Waterloo Street, Ironbridge. With a view of Madeley Wood behind.

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  2. Laurence Blundell said: Feb 10th, 2009 at 18:07

    That’s a very interesting photo.The small building with the tall chimney refered to,was the steam driven pumping station built by the Great Western Railway to provide water for the tank and water cranes at the nearly Buldwas Station.Access to the pumping station was by rail,starting from the sidings on the south side of the railway,going under the line near the SVR and Wenlock lines junctions at Buildwas,before ending at a wharf by the Severn,and by the pumphouse.

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  3. ALLAN BUTLER(LONDON) said: Feb 12th, 2009 at 02:37

    CANT SEE BUT IS THERE A PARKING TICKET ON THE WINDSCREEN AS THIS VAN IS PARKED ON DOUBLE YELLOW LINES,IF NOT THERE WOULD BE THESE DAYS (PARKRITE)

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