This week's pictures from the past
This week's pictures from the past include an old aerial shot of Clun, the former Forest Green site at the foot of the Wrekin on a snowy day and a very early postcard of the old canal which ran between Newport and Shrewsbury.
Many of the photos we use in Pictures From The Past depict scenes which are outside living memory, but this certainly doesn't come into that category – well, not for most of our readers, anyway.
The site, on the right of the picture, is now Morrisons supermarket car park.
The photo is originally from Sue and David Beechey, of Pontesbury, who gave it to Shrewsbury historian and author David Trumper.nextpage
When was this shot of Clun taken? Maybe there are some knowledgeable Clun folk who can detect clues as to when it was taken, and when it wasn't taken - which can also be quite useful.
So, for instance, with this aerial view we know that it wasn't taken before the advent of flying. It actually looks as if it might be from the 1930s or 1940s.
It is in an album in the ownership of Mrs Grace Edwards, of Wellington, whose father-in-law Bill Edwards, later of Horsehay, was born in Clun.nextpage
Brrr! You can almost feel the nip in the air in this view of the Forest Glen, seen on February 7, 1968.
For those who are too young to remember, the Forest Glen was a famous venue at the foot of The Wrekin, and many events were held there over the years.
It fell on hard times and shut in the 1980s but was dismantled and rebuilt at the Blists Hill Museum, being officially opened on May 24, 1994. It is there still as a tea room and restaurant.nextpage
There are proposals to restore the old canal which ran from Newport to Shrewsbury, but we're going back almost 100 years with this postcard depicting 'Canal Lock, Newport, Salop'.
It was loaned to us by Mr Don Langford, of Chetwynd Aston, and bears a date of December 3, 1910.
Back then it was a working canal, but should the restoration plans reach fruition it would be as a leisure and tourism asset.nextpage
For many readers the reference to 'Emergency Ward 10' on the coach will be baffling.
Actually, it still is a bit baffling even when you know that Emergency Ward 10 was a classic hospital television series shown between 1957 and 1967.
These folk at the Coalbrookdale Works, Coalbrookdale, were going on a bus trip, we know not where.
The photograph was loaned to us by Mrs Margaret Taylor, of Broseley, whose husband Ron is pictured among the group.
