This week’s pictures from the past

From the look of their muddy shoes, these Coalbrookdale workers are taking a quick break from their toils to pose for a photographer.

A note on the back of this print tells us: “Taken at Cherry Tree Hill Brickworks or Tilery, date about 1901. 5th from left on back row - Jim Maiden, Little Dawley. 5th from left in front row, Mr Durns, (of) Doseley. 7th from left in front row, Jack Yapp, of Lightmoor, aged 13.”

Young Jack Yapp - he was called Jack although his first name was actually John - was the grandfather of Kevin Yapp, of Gravel Leasowes, Lightmoor, who loaned us this photo.

It was one of a number of old family pictures in a cupboard. Kevin’s house has been within the family for generations.

Kevin’s great-grandfather, James Yapp, lived in the property, and Kevin thinks his (Kevin’s) grandfather Jack probably lived there as a boy.

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