This group of people outside the Talbot Inn, Ironbridge, look ready for something - but what?
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Church from a century ago
Here we have Knockin Church, as seen in a postcard from more than 100 years ago.
Hall gutted after Army moved in
There can be few, if any, Salopians still alive who saw the magnificent Park Hall, Oswestry. The reason for that is that this Queen Anne mansion burned down on the night of Boxing Day in December 1918.
Station staff study fire damage
Studying the damage after a fire at Whittington High Level Station in 1958 are, from left, Mr Andrews, Michael Morris and S Lawson.
Differences in street scene
Take yourself back in time, and imagine walking down this street and noticing all the differences there are with the same street today.
Royal visitor . . . but when?
Welshpool railway station is decked out for the arrival of a royal visitor in today’s Looking Back photo.
Flooding is nothing new
With floods in the news this summer, Elaine Rye of Broseley loaned us this photo of The Wharfage, Ironbridge, dating from the end of the 19th century.
Village scene 100 years ago
A photographer caught these villagers in Beckbury on camera about 100 years ago.
Ferry across River Severn
Not many people get to use the ferry in Shropshire these days, but 100 years or so ago there was often no other way of getting across the River Severn.
More Stories…
- Village was a hive of industry
- County scouts from the 1940s
- Postcard like an old phone call
- Telford’s original bridge
- Bleak church image touched up
- Local characters pose at inn
- Days of National Service in RAF
- School’s pupils a century ago
- Youngsters’ rescue exercise
- Mining era location not clear
- Century-old view of town
- Clues to when pic wasn’t taken
- Blast from the past with band
- Umbrellas or parasols?
- Summer scene from last century
- Cadet band leads procession
- Capturing moment of change
- Dougan presents trophies in ‘91
- No hint on name of hall
- Memories of lodge captured
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