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Pictures From The Past – March 20

Welcome to this week's collection of nostalgia photos from the pages of the Shropshire Star.

Published Mar 20, 2020

You will have seen plenty of pictures of flooding in Ironbridge in recent weeks, but this 1947 photo from Jackfield historian Ron Miles is a reminder of past defences on The Wharfage, and we're not talking flood defences in this case. Those squares in the roadway are the remains of a wartime tank trap. The idea was to slot in steel girders into the holes to create an obstacle to tanks.

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