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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This article was posted on August 22, 2008 at 11:49 am.
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  1. Jonathan Elcock said: Aug 22nd, 2008 at 5:06 pm

    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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