Nostalgia – week ending July 9

Friday 9th July 2010, 10:12AM BST.

"This was the scene just after 500 tons of scrap tyres erupted into flames at Spout Farm, Malinslee, near Dawley, yesterday," reported the Shropshire Star of October 26, 1964. "Three East Shropshire fire brigades (sic) sped to the fire, which is believed to have been started by children. Thousands of people from all over the West Midlands went to see the blaze which lasted for nearly 24 hours. The tyre dump was still smouldering this afternoon."

"This was the scene just after 500 tons of scrap tyres erupted into flames at Spout Farm, Malinslee, near Dawley, yesterday," reported the Shropshire Star of October 26, 1964. "Three East Shropshire fire brigades (sic) sped to the fire, which is believed to have been started by children. Thousands of people from all over the West Midlands went to see the blaze which lasted for nearly 24 hours. The tyre dump was still smouldering this afternoon."

A round-up of this week’s Shropshire Star nostalgia pictures.

View more: Dawley news, Madeley news, Malinslee news, Shrewsbury news, St Georges news, The Wrekin news.

Motorcycle enthusiasts - feast your eyes! This photo was loaned to us by J.B. Cross, of The Mount, Shrewsbury, who tells us: "It's a photograph which I took many years ago, probably in the mid 1960s, of this large stock of new and second hand machines. The registration plates are a good guide as to date. The photograph was taken at 49 Mardol, Shrewsbury, the business of Messrs J.C. Pickering, certainly the largest stockists and repair workshops in the town at that time. The business was closed many years ago."

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