Pictures from the Past – April 29, 2011

Friday 29th April 2011, 4:30PM BST.

What better way to spend Easter Monday than to hire a little boat and have a relaxing trip up and down the beautiful River Severn. Well, take your pick - they all seem free. This photo was taken in the 1930s at Bridgnorth when there was a riverside fleet of small boats. The picture comes from Jackfield historian Ron Miles.

What better way to spend Easter Monday than to hire a little boat and have a relaxing trip up and down the beautiful River Severn. Well, take your pick - they all seem free. This photo was taken in the 1930s at Bridgnorth when there was a riverside fleet of small boats. The picture comes from Jackfield historian Ron Miles.

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

View more: Coalbrookdale news, Ironbridge news, River Severn news.

We're dipping once more into the photo album of Jackfield historian Ron Miles. His caption for this one is: "The last steam train ever to leave Much Wenlock for Wellington. The fireman (without hat) is Terry Thorpe of Dawley. Date July 22, 1962." He adds: "I was present on this very historic occasion. My children and I had just made the final trip into Wenlock by this very train. We had left Wellington earlier that afternoon." Funnily enough the date in our archives for the last train is July 21, 1962. We'll leave it for railways buffs to argue about that one.

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