This week’s pictures from the past

Friday 21st August 2009, 9:00AM BST.

A little while ago we carried a shot showing the magnificent Park Hall at Oswestry – it burned down in 1918 – at the end of a long avenue of trees. That prompted John Powell, of Oswestry, to e-mail us this shot, not of the hall itself, but of the gate house.

“I have come across a glass plate negative of the Park Hall Gate House,” he said.

“This glass plate was among a collection of similar negatives, one of which is dated 1907.

“The Gate House is still there as a private dwelling and in the times of the army camp, it was the guard room. Looking at it now, there is quite a short front path to the house. On the attached picture, there is a long front path and garden in front of the Gate House before Burma Road was constructed.

“The glass plates came from Rogers Coachbuilders who had a factory on The Horsemarket, Oswestry, on the opposite side from the rear of the Powis Hall.”

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