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Pictures from the past - February 21

Check out our weekly collection of nostalgia photos from the pages of the Shropshire Star.

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This fabulous photograph of Craven Arms footballers in the 1932 and 1933 season was brought into our Ludlow office by Mrs Gill Potts. It belonged to her late father Mr George Davies, a gamekeeper, born between Onibury and Craven Arms, at Wettleton Hill. He did play football when he was young but is not on this picture. So, does anyone recognise a familiar face in this line-up?
There have been significant changes in this view of Jackfield since it was taken in 1986 – and we don’t just mean that the river is a lot higher at the moment. Paul France, who emailed it in, explains: “The building in the middle used to be Jacky Harrison’s bakehouse until he retired in the early 1950s. It was then purchased by Jackfield Band (for about £90!) and became their rehearsal room until the early 1980s when they moved to the Methodist Sunday Schoolroom, top left. They finally moved to their present headquarters, The Methodist Chapel, also top left , in 1996. Today there’s a new cottage, called The Tumbling Sailor, after the pub that used to be on the site, a two-car garage, and a large four-bedroomed house on the other side of the road. On the left of the photo, the wooden Sunday School room has been demolished.”
It was the end of the road for the old Brown Heath Methodist Chapel near Loppington in February 1979. Robert Dalrymple had bought the former chapel over five years previously, but hopes to convert it into a home were dashed in a long battle with North Shropshire District Council which twice refused planning permission. The photo was taken shortly before its demolition.
Handwritten on the back of this old postcard loaned by Bridgnorth collector Ray Farlow is: “(Photo F.E. Fox-Davies, 1904). PS & NWR Llanyblodwel Station (Blodwell Junction of the Western Region – formerly Tanat Valley Railway – now occupies this site). Looking towards Nantmawr. The building nearest signal is that of the ‘Potteries’.” Those initials incidentally stand for Potteries, Shrewsbury & North Wales Railway. The line was one of very few to close in Victorian times, but was revived years later.
Here’s an interesting but undated view of Sandford Avenue in Church Stretton, from a postcard loaned to the Shropshie Star by Mr Christopher Kennett. On the left is “W.J. Rees private and commercial hotel”. The view has the general appearance of being from the first years of the 20th century, before cars began to intrude.
This fascinating photograph was loaned to us by Keith Richards of Kinnerley. The caption says: “British Legion, Women’s Section, Berrington branch. Alice Reynolds fifth from left.” Alice was Keith’s mother. The photo looks to have been taken at Atcham and is undated, but perhaps around the early 1960s. Can anyone shed any more light on the picture, or recognise a familiar face?
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