This week's pictures from the past
This week's pictures from the past include a Craven Arms resident delivering a Shropshire turkey to 10 Downing Street, Christmas in Wellington in 1965 and the Dothill Pool in Wellington.
Forty years ago at Christmas, Shropshire gave Number 10 the bird - a Christmas turkey to be precise.
Charlie and Jean Wood, of Craven Arms, presented the turkey on behalf of the British Turkey Federation to the Prime Minister of the day, Harold Wilson.
Charlie Wood was the founding chairman of JP Wood poultry of Craven Arms and together with his three brothers, Wim, Jim and Basil, were pioneers of the modern poultry industry.
Patrick, Charlie's oldest son who e-mailed in this picture, said: "I remember well the meeting with Harold Wilson as my younger brother Charles and I were asked in to Number 10 and we spent well over an hour with the Prime Minister and his wife Mary.
"Dad, anxious to keep off politics, was discussing their first cars, which coincidentally were both Austin Sevens, bought for £10. Dad got on with Harold like a house on fire and my brother Charles was even given a present off the Number 10 Christmas tree."
It's Christmas! And having a jolly time is this group at a J P Wood of Craven Arms Christmas party in the late 1960s or early 1970s. The venue is not known, however.
This picture was e-mailed by Patrick Wood, who says: "Pictured with the bottle is Anne Holland, secretary, pouring a drink for Dave Blewitt, production development manager.
"Who are the rest? Some of your readers in south Shropshire might know. Obviously a good time was had by all!".
The crowds were out in Wellington over 40 years ago to do their Christmas shopping - or were they perhaps out to admire the Christmas lights?
This photograph from our archives was taken in The Square on December 14, 1965. The name of the shop, pictured centre, has been deliberately masked on the photo.
The reason for this, we presume, is that the newspaper did not want to give the store "free advertising".
Eyesore or beauty spot? This picture of Dothill Pool, Wellington, was taken on April 24, 1970. The caption was: "Wellington traders think nature shows one of her less lovely faces at the Dothill pools.
Wrekin Angling Society was indignant because it thought Wellington Chamber of Commerce wanted them filled in, but the chamber said it was merely passing a verdict on the look of the pools when it called them "eyesores".
