Pictures from the past – May 12, 2011

Mr and Mrs Oakes look out from their flooded home at Nailors Row, Ironbridge, during the 1947 floods. This photo was loaned to us by Jim Edwards, of Apley, Telford, who was born in 1934 at 47 The Wharfage, Ironbridge, in that row of terraced houses known as Nailors Row his home is off the picture to the right. He says Nailors Row no longer exists and there is a car park there now. Bottom right, you can see the hand of coracle man Harry Rogers, known as Dibo (pronounced Dyebo). “Harry was the father of Eustace Rogers. I don’t know why he was called Dibo. All those houses are where originally they made the nails for the horses that pulled the barges up and down the river. Then they turned them into cottages. There were 10 houses. “Next door to us was 46, and then there was the brew house, as they called it, and then the Oakes were next door. I can’t remember their first names. The son was Arthur, and there were two daughters.”

This picture was posted on Thursday, May 12th, 2011 at 15:57.