Pictures from the past
Monday 11th January 2010, 8:53AM GMT.
Thanks to Christine Heath of Gains Park, Shrewsbury, for letting us have a look at this picture of flooding at Abbey Foregate in Shrewsbury. It is one of a number of similar photos which she emailed us.
“They were photographed by J Groom, of Wyle Cop. I’m not sure of the year, but it looks like early 1900s. I will be selling these shortly on eBay, but thought you would like them before I did,” she said.
On the assumption that the pictures are late Victorian or early 20th century, the candidate years are 1877, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1886, 1899 and 1910, which were all flood years for Shrewsbury, the worst being in 1881.
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I’m pretty sure the picture shows Coleham Head and was taken from English Bridge, and that the building signed “SWAN DARLINGTON VAULTS” is where the Samaritans are based (now known as Swan House).
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