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August 2007 Newsletter Newsletter Newsletter of the Broseley Local History Society Incorporating the Wilkinson Society August 2007 Chairman Gillian Pope 2 Jan Society Activities 2006-07, presentation Secretary Dot Cox by John Freeman Treasurer Jim Cooper 6 Feb Shropshire Workhouses, by Lance Smith Curator David Lake 5 Mar John Wilkinson and his Transport Membership Janet Robinson Interests, by Neil Clarke (at Birmingham Secretary 26 Coalport Road Science Museum) Broseley 3 Apr Broseley Ironmasters on the South TF12 5AZ Staffordshire Coalfield, by Paul Luter 01952 882495 7 May ‘You try and stop me!’ Part II. Walk Programme Secretary Neil Clarke and Journal Editor around the rest of Coalport and Jackfield, Newsletter Editor Jan Lancaster led by Ron Miles Publicity Michael Pope 4 Jun Installation of John Wilkinson plaque CD archiving Vin Callcut and summer evening at The Lawns Website www.broseley.org.uk 12 Jul Wilkinson Bicentenary Conference at the Email [email protected] Great Warehouse, Coalbrookdale MEETINGS Further details from Neil Clarke 01952 504135. Meetings of the Broseley Local History Society are held on the first Wednesday of each month at NEW MEMBERS 7.30 pm at the Broseley Social Club, High Street, The Society would like to welcome the following unless otherwise announced. Car parking is new members: available at the back of the Club. Members are Barry Hodgson Wolverhampton requested to be seated by 7.30 pm to allow Caroline Bagnall Broseley speakers a prompt start. Dr Richard Weekes Bradford Visitors are welcome but are asked to give a Lynda Watts Waterlooville, Hants donation towards Society funds. Jenny and John Dyas Widnes Angela and Keith Davies Sleaford, Lincs PROGRAMME Robert Fisk-Moore Broseley Wood 5 Sept Noel Ward and Ray Johnston, led by David Lake, share some Wartime Memories. FORTHCOMING EVENTS Time allowing, David will also talk about John Wilkinson 200th anniversary Next year sees the 200th anniversary of the death the cavity magnetron so crucial in of John Wilkinson. To mark this occasion, the powering wartime radar equipment, and Society will be installing a commemorative plaque now powering our microwave ovens. at The Lawns in Church 3 Oct Annual General Meeting and talk by Street, the one time home Richard Bifield on Thomas Telford’s of this great ironmaster. Shropshire Works By kind invitation of Mel 7 Nov Alison House, talk by Vin Callcut on the Mars, whose home it now history of his house in Church Street, is, this ceremony will take Broseley place on Wednesday 4 June 5 Dec Annual Christmas dinner 2008. 1 The Society will also be holding a one day compensate for the weight of the 80 tonne crawler conference on 12 July which will include lectures crane needed for the job. The next was to install on John Wilkinson and his work as well as a tour temporary steel casings through the landslide of local places of interest. Details of this have yet material into the rockhead. Pile bores were then to be finalised but book the date in your 2008 diary drilled up to a depth of 29.5 metres, each pile being now and watch this space! reinforced with a 660 mm diameter steel tube down its full length. Some of these were fitted with WANTED! inclinometers and strain gauges to allow future The Society occasionally needs microphone and monitoring. speaker equipment for use at meetings. If there is Once the steel tubes were positioned, they were any member willing to lend such items when filled with concrete from the bottom up using a needed, please contact [email protected] or pipe suspended from a crane. A new reinforced any member of the committee. concrete wall, to retain the south side of the carriageway, was also constructed. PREVIOUS MEETINGS Site visit to the Lloyds During construction work, the site team made In June over 40 members gathered at the Lloyds some interesting finds. South of Lloyds Cottage where work has been going on to stabilise the road was the remains of an old building, while during that runs along this section of the river Severn. piling timber was found within the landslide There, site engineer Neal Rushton of Telford & material. Old mine strutting timbers were also Wrekin Borough Council explained what had been unearthed and a wheel from a furnace trolley, done to assess the problem and the work presently encased in slag, was found beneath the road. being carried out to contain it. Abandoned mine workings also posed a problem, with grout having to be injected into the worked As any local resident will know, water levels in the coal seams up to depths of 55 metres. Severn vary considerably. These varying levels have a definite influence on the rate of slip and The site is presently being tidied up and the road inclinometers installed on the site during resurfaced and at the time of going to press was November and December of 2006 showed that the scheduled for reopening on 31 August. lower the water level the greater the amount of slip. Funding has now Alarmingly, one inclinometer plot located A furnace been obtained for trolley wheel downslope of the Lloyds showed an average Phase II of this covered in slag ground movement of 1.4 mm/day (that’s over 20 was found project, which is inches a year!), accelerating up to 6 mm/day. beneath the road to stabilise the It had become quite area between the obvious, therefore, that road adjacent to urgent action needed taking Lloyds Cottage and in September last year and the river. Phase I of the stabilisation However, Telford project was begun. & Wrekin Council The first thing the site team do not anticipate did was to move sufficient that the road itself material from the site to will be closed during this work. One inclinometer plot located downslope of the Lloyds during The steel November and December 2006 tubes were showed an average ground filled with movement of 1.4 mm/day, accel- concrete from erating up to 6 mm/day the bottom up 2 Lloyds Head closure As members will already know a short length of the road in front of the Black Swan on the Jackfield side of the river has been closed to vehicles which are now diverted via Calcutts and Ironbridge Roads. Temporary traffic lights have been installed at the junction of these two roads and a barrier erected at one end of Chapel Road to avoid this being used as a short cut. Off on a smoky and To restore a direct route from the bridge to nostalgic Jackfield itself, a temporary road near to the journey up the Dee existing road closure is to be built. Valley designed stone pillars with recessed cast iron Trip to North Wales plates west of Shrewsbury, most of which are still This year being the 250th anniversary of the birth in place. Also to be seen were the toll houses at of Thomas Telford, the Society’s July outing was Montford Bridge, Wolf’s Head near Nesscliffe and a trip to North Wales to see some of the Chirk which were in use before the Holyhead Road achievements of both Telford and John Wilkinson improvements, while those at Burcot, Llangollen in and around the Dee Valley. and Ty-Isaf (with weighbridge) reflected the The idea was to travel along as much of Telford’s standard Telford design. Holyhead Road (built from 1815-37) as was Major civil engineering works to be seen were the feasible, with an initial short detour to see his 62 ft Ketley embankment, new sections of road at span aqueduct at Longdon on Tern. From there it Overley Hill and Montford Bank and the new was straight through to Llangollen, a journey much alignment on the approach to Chirk. Two bridges enhanced by Neil Clarke’s commentary on the along the way, Montford Bridge (built in 1792) various features to be seen along the road. and Chirk (built in 1793), were also designed by Telford’s remit was to improve the route from Telford, although prior to the Holyhead Road Shrewsbury to Holyhead. This he did by following improvements. much of the existing turnpike roads, reducing the Telford also provided for recesses for roadside steeper gradients, bridging rivers and generally storage of surfacing stone. No more than a quarter making the route both faster and more comfortable. of a mile apart, they were much in evidence He also designed the toll houses, the wrought iron between Chirk and Llangollen. toll gates and the cast iron milestones. It is a Once at Llangollen station the party boarded the tribute to his work that today’s A5 follows the first steam train of the day, taking a very smoky same path almost without change. and nostalgic journey up the valley as far as On the way Neil pointed out the contrast between Glyndyfrdwy, storms having damaged the line the cast iron triangular milestone posts east of further up. Phil Bradley from Eardington was the Shrewsbury, such as the one outside the old winner of the footplate prize, and he says that Wrekin Hospital in Wellington, with the Telford although he had been on a steam train before he had never been through a tunnel. It was, he said, quite an experience and very enjoyable, as was the Telford’s mile- whole trip. stones along the Holyhead From there it was back to Llangollen by coach to Road were board the Thomas Telford narrow boat for a trip stone pillars with recessed along the Llangollen Canal over Pontcysyllte cast iron plates Aqueduct to Froncysyllte Wharf. 3 Crossing the Pontcycyllte Aqueduct was like being suspended in mid-air Telford’s aqueduct, carrying the canal over the River Dee, is 1007 ft long and 125 ft high and it This octagonal building was probably the certainly seemed like it – from the deck of the cannon foundry narrow boat one appeared to be suspended in Today the only part of this once great ironworks mid-air.
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