Anth Rowley
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Exploring locally on foot & bike. Cartophile, worryingly obsessed by toposcopes, trig stations & benchmarks. Tendency to wander & wonder - supporting @THJTrust
Shropshire
Joined January 2015
Coalbrookdale - standing on the edge of the village green is the memorial to the workers of the former Coalbrookdale Company 1709 - 2017 The Memorial is easily missed by visitors to the area, but it is worth a stroll off the main tourist route to see - ///canyons.dolly.restrict
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One of two 19th-Century Board of Ordnance iron troughs that sit on the edges of the Museum of Iron's car-park in Coalbrookdale. Now used as planters for crocus, they would have been used to hold & store more potent materiel in the past... ...swords to ploughshares
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A new blog highlighting the wanderings of the Overley Hill Trig Pillar, how it's new position links in with Telford's industrial heritage and a little known connection to a South Wales village's sports teams https://t.co/QzpyKaXSax
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Overley Hill stands 2-miles west of the Shropshire town of Wellington, between the famous Wrekin Hill to the south & the village of Wrockwardine to the north. The historic Roman Road of Watling…
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A new blog about the history of the Wrekin's Rifle Range from it's establishment because of the threat of French invasion in 1859; it's connection to the Olympic Games; the drive to close it from the 1970s; and fun & frivolities in the 2000s. https://t.co/oPGDvyNwBb
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When you stand at the Wrekin’s summit, the hill’s military connections & history aren’t obvious. Pedants may state that the summit’s Ordnance Survey Trig Pillar with its…
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A new (short) blog that highlights a 'forgotten' WWI memorial hidden in plain sight on Church Street, St Georges, Telford https://t.co/mGprn4srN0
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Standing on Church Street, St Georges in Telford is the former Primitive Methodist Chapel that was opened in 1860. Its adjacent neighbour is the Chapel’s Jubilee Sunday School that was added …
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Another @MACEarchive video about Telford, an ATV piece from 1979 on the (largely) positive work of TDC in Ironbridge to rejuvenate the town It includes interviews with Eustace Rogers; the director of Blists Hill; and the late, great Billy Wright https://t.co/d3SXfc8C4O
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A new blog providing a transcript of the Illustrated London News Article that reported on a visit by the British Association to the Wrekin in Sept-1865 to study the Silurian Period geology and to sample the food & beer at the Wrekin Cottage
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On 23rd September 1865, The Illustrated London News carried an article that reported on the excursions of the British Association from Birmingham to Malvern and the Wrekin. Below is a transcript of…
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From @MACEarchive 'Dawley: The New Town Before Development' Filmed in 1963, it is 22-mins of silent footage of the area around Dawley, Madeley & Ironbridge, towns that would subsequently form the southern extent of Telford New Town https://t.co/C95E6Chtwh
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Oakengates Fellowship FC - an amateur football team that competed in the Wellington League before WWII The linked blog contains a selection of the team's match reports from '37 & '38 when subs weren't allowed & goalies could be shunted over the goal-line https://t.co/xA1AUuFR0G
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The photo below was published in the Telford Journal in May 1986 under the regular’Do You Remember When?’ feature. It shows two local football teams from 1936 – Wrockwardine Wood …
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A new blog - this one is about a hidden Ordnance Survey Bench Mark in Oakengates, Telford and how it is a part of & a witness to the ever-changing development & rejuvenation of my home town https://t.co/h1eYOCtX9H
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When I thought about, created & then published the Oakengates Bench Mark Walk in 2021 I hoped that it had covered everything that I wanted it to, i.e. highlight Ordnance Survey Bench Marks to a…
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A selection of the Christmas Trees within the National Trust's Attingham House, Shropshire - photos taken last weekend
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On the lower slopes of the south side of the Wrekin (near to the Permissive Path) lies a toppled Boundary Stone that dates from at least the C19th The BS marked Duke of Cleveland's estate (now managed as the Raby Estate) to the west and the Orleton Estate to the east.
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Some photos from walking up, over & around the Wrekin this morning. From fungi on the north-side, to a toppled C19th boundary on the lower southern slopes, to the sun glinting off the Toposcope and casting the Hill's shadow across the Shropshire Plain.
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Not a 'ghost sign', more a 'ghost instruction' - noticed this on the wall in the courtyard at Attingham Park "DRY SWILL | TEA LEAVES | PEELINGS| WET SWILL" which presumably went down the drain to be collected as food for the animals or used as compost.
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A trip around the gardens of Berwick House (Shrewsbury, Shropshire) this evening for the Christmas Lights Trail - also popped in the house to find this magnificent Shropshire Yeomanry helmet on display. Left wondering about it's history.
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The Wrekin's Half-Way Stone - a blog about a piece of the Wrekin's history that is forgotten, if not unknown, that could one day return to its former standing... https://t.co/UMZ1nFN8FM
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In their account of a climb of the Wrekin that was published in The Examiner on 5th June 1875, under the title ‘Original Sketches by G.T.L – No.3 The Wrekin’, the correspondent wr…
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Walking the Wrekin's Sentry Path this morning, I finally paused to examine what I believe is a former Boundary Stone dating from C19th from the hill's lower ridgeline. Cut into the Stone is an @OrdnanceSurvey Datum Line and Pivot Benchmark. See Photo ALT for more details
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25th October St Crispin's Day - along with his twin brother Crispinian - the Patron Saints of Shoemakers & Cobblers Should probably be known as Saviours Day in Shrewsbury
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Best viewed in Landscape From 1732 the South Prospect of Bridgnorth by Samuel and Nathanial Buck Eleven features are picked out & numbered - the Index is in the bottom right-hand side of the picture's text Panpudding Hill is on the left-hand centre side of the picture
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