This photograph shows the John Hunt School Orchestra with Norman Pickering, about the year 1960. Trench Boys’ Modern School Staff in 1956. Amongst the faces are Headteacher Harold Fletcher, Sir [...]

Construction of the Wrockwardine Wood inclined plane began about 17th January 1791 after the Ironmaster, John Wilkinson had personally petitioned Parliament to extend the Shropshire Canal from Snedshill to form a junction with the Donnington Wood Canal.

Hello Everyone. I have been asked to write about my life since coming to live in Shropshire. It was 1946 and my father was transferred in his job to Wellington. […]

Between 1818 and 1821 a partnership was formed to mill, bake, and deal in grain, and a four-storeyed brick steam mill was built in 1818 on the north bank of […]

I was quite young, but I remember feeling quite sad when they drained the Old Canal. I recall a sunken coal barge was revealed near the Old Yard. The canal […]

Trench Methodist Chapel Our second local history page features Trench Methodist Chapel. We would like to thank Mr. Ken Fryer very much for the following article and for loaning the […]

The photograph of the Wrockwardine Wood Rectory comes to us courtesy of Paul Luter and Joy Minshall the former wife of Neville Minshall, Vicar of Wrockwardine Wood Church in 1965-1974. […]

This observation post was built about 1940 in the early war years. It provided visual cover to the approaches to the railway sidings within the Donnington Ordnance Depot. Positioned on […]