This week's pictures from the past

This picture was carried with a story on or about July 3, 1968 which read: The Morris family, at Nordley, near Bridgnorth, live in fear that their "hovel" home will fall in around them. Mr Stanley Morris, 37, and his wife, Nancy, fear for their safety and their four sons.

They live in a row of 200-year-old cottages in Astley Abbotts, where Bridgnorth Rural District Council is restoring a schoolhouse to house a family of gipsies.

"Shouldn't the council have first looked after the people in the parish before providing accommodation for outsiders?" said Mrs Morris.

Wheel meet again. Woodside Junior School, Telford, pupils discovered an old industrial wheel during their studies of historic industries. The children seen with the wheel at the school in October 1971 are, from left, Doris Brindle and Olwen Evans, both 10, and nine-year-olds Kay Evans, Nigel Clarke, and Paul Gilbert.

The Iron Bridge must be the most photographed structure in Shropshire. This photo may date from around the 1920s or 1930s. The large building just to the right of the bridge was demolished just after World War Two.

The Iron Bridge was made a scheduled ancient monument in July 1934 and closed to traffic. Nevertheless, it's still surprising that not one photo is known to exist showing a car passing over it in the days when they were allowed to do so.

Picture: Mrs Dianna Young of Dawley

Here are some faces music lovers may recognise from yesteryear – this is the Four Crosses & Llandrinio Choir from the 1950 to 1960 period.

The photo was loaned by Joyce Burgoyne, of Trawscoed, Llandrinio, who is on the picture, although she does not say where exactly. "The Reverend G Astley was the conductor. We went all over Shropshire and Montgomeryshire," she says.

And here's one we did earlier . . . Quite a bit earlier in fact, as this photo in our files was used on or about March 20, 1972, with the following caption: "These town cottages in Bridgnorth may be improved at an estimated cost of £7,000. A scheme for improvements to 45-48 Bernard's Hill, Low Town, has been drawn up and approved by Bridgnorth Rural District Council's housing committee.

The scheme will be forwarded to the council's finance committee, Salop County Council and the Department of the Environment."

Although it's said every picture tells a story, we need the help of Paul France, who e-mailed in this view, to tell the story behind this one.

"It was taken, I think, in the early 1970s and shows a part of Coalford, Jackfield, taken from the other side of the river," says Paul.

"The building in the foreground was Jacky Harrison's bakehouse. As you can see it was a strange wedge-shaped building. The coal-fired oven was in the narrow end nearest the river. You can clearly see the remains of the outside privy.

"Jacky retired in 1952/3 and Jackfield Band bought the building for £80 and used it as a rehearsal room until the late 70s. There is now a cottage on the site.

"The cottage opposite used to belong to Alice Anderson who ran the attached shop which was one of four shops in the village. The shop is now gone and has been replaced by a two-storey extension."

This photo was taken on December 1, 1971. The original caption was: "An exhibition, including a scale model of the TV booster station the BBC plans to erect on The Wrekin, has gone on show at the Shirehall, Shrewsbury. And one of the first visitors to the exhibition yesterday was Cynthia Davies, of Corndon Road, Shrewsbury.

"She works in the county planning department. A renewed application has been made for planning permission for the station."