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'Bridge known locally as Memorial Bridge or "Shaky Bridge" is not made of cast iron' - Your Letters and a picture of young evacuees escaping to the safety of Shropshire at the start of WW2

In today's letters we're corrected about the material used in the construction of the Jackfield Footbridge, concerns for our green land, and what a 'cold hooter' means.

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PICTURE FROM THE PAST: Boys from Holly Lodge High School, Smethwick, are given refreshments as they arrive at Newport Station in Shropshire, on September 1, 1939. Virtually the whole school was evacuated from their homes in the Black Country to the relative safety of rural Shropshire.

Shaky Bridge made of steel

You recently published an article about bridges in which you stated that the Jackfield Footbridge was made of cast iron.

It is in fact fabricated from rolled steel sections. 

incidentally, it is known locally as the Memorial Bridge or "the Shaky Bridge".

Paul France, Midlands

Green land is under pressure

I ​notice that there was an article about unwelcome development proposals in Gnosall. 

However, no mention was made of an equally damaging and unwelcome development on prime agricultural land that is located off the Knightley Road.