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Whgmag4:Layout 1.Qxd Wellingtonia FREE ISSUE! Issue 4 : Summer 2009 Newsletter of Wellington History Group, rediscovering the past of Wellington in Shropshire IS THE END NIGH? IN THIS ISSUE ****************** ot for the moment, it isn’t. Page Our Awards For All grant 2. Town Names (for which we have been N What’s new? Pussycats? 3. Market Matters most grateful) has enabled us to produce four issues of How does a night club fit into 4. Life in Little Russia Wellingtonia ... but, thanks in part Wellington’s history? SEE PAGE 13. 5. Journalist’s Chronicle to your recent donations, we have 6. Wartime Rationing enough to pay for a fifth issue. Having said that, it’s been a lot 7. Geomorphology Due out in October (please see of hard work ... not just for our 8. Passage to England? the back page of this issue for committee but also those who details), the bonus Edition will be have offered or been persuaded to 10. Homes fit for Heroes? devoted entirely to aspects of contribute articles and illustrations 11. The Green Wellington’s Victorian history. for the magazine. We’ve received 12. Old Sites, New Faces Schools, in particular, should find many comments praising the high 14. The Foresters it useful to their curricula but it quality and wide range of topics 15. Photo Feature will also be aimed at our usual covered, both in the magazine and readers, whatever their age and our public talks. And we’ve been 16. Wellington Amateurs wherever they happen to live. able to help quite a few folk with 17. New Bus Station What happens after October their own research, some of which 18. Coloured Glass depends entirely on whether or has been difficult at times. But at 19. John Thomas Carrane not we manage to obtain a further least we’ve done our best. 20. Happenings grant; Awards For All have Finally, we knew before we advised us that they are unable to started Wellington History Group Contact Details provide continued funding so we that there’d be a lot of people are looking elsewhere. Please keep interested in the history of other memorabilia you may have your fingers crossed or try to find Wellington, The Wrekin Hill and in your possession. Our research a generous benefactor who can The Weald Moors. What we didn’t needs whatever help you can give spare a few thousand pounds ... anticipate was just how quickly to improve our knowledge and and let us know who it is! Wellingtonia would fly off the understanding of Wellington’s rich Under the terms of our Awards shelves at our usual library, shop history. For All grant, we contracted to and newsagency outlets. Please bear us in mind when produce four issues of Wellingtonia By the way, if you missed any you come across items of local free of charge to both schools and of the issues, we can email copies interest. Even the results of the public. We have. in .pdf format for you to pass on research into your own family tree We also promised to present a to friends and family elsewhere in can be useful ... providing, of series of free-to-attend public talks the world ... all we need is an course, there’s a connection with on subjects related to our area of email address which has a our areas of interest. interest. We did. broadband connection. We’ll let you have details of our We also offered to help schools Whatever activities and events plans for 2010 in issue five, so and individuals. We have. we promote during 2010 won’t make sure you get a copy. In the All told, it’s been a good year. affect our appeals for information meantime, enjoy issue four ... and We hope you think so, too. for the loan of photographs and thanks again for your support! Produced with financial support from Awards for All When Arleston was built, many TOWN NAMES George Evans names were needed. The council went for Royal names like Kingsland, Kingsway, Windsor, lace names are often houses, a practice that’s dying out Charles, Princess, etc. changed. Sometimes it’s easy (though I have named each house There is John Broad, after a Pto mistake their meanings we lived in). Sunnycroft is a good Town Clerk, Churchill and two and origins. I was once lectured example. The Priory was vicars, Hayes and Abbey; a about the origin of ‘Strine Close’. originally the Vicarage; when it reference to the Festival of Britain ‘This proves,’ I was told, ‘that was sold it was renamed, though I and the founder of Wellington there must have been a stream believe it had nothing to do with College. here in olden times’. Priors. My grandparents’ address Pubs sometimes have Well no, it doesn’t prove that at was, ‘Slaughden, Wellington, interesting names like the all. When the area was being Salop’, though Slaughden was a Oddfellows, after a friendly developed by Wellington Urban semi-detached house in Victoria society, and Bacchus, though District Council, the Surveyor, Avenue. everyone I know called that ‘Dicky Arthur Barton, asked the Do you know where 18½ Street Parkes’s’. Why on Earth was the Chairman of Planning (me) to Lane was? It was the Union Raven renamed Rasputin’s to the think up suitable names. Workhouse on Holyhead Road. annoyance of many? Haygate has I sat down with a map of Nobody wanted to have The nothing to do with dried grass; it’s Shropshire and chose names of Workhouse on either their birth or a gate into the deer enclosure, as is rivers and streams. These were death certificate, so this was an Wickets, a smaller gate: no accepted but were not enough, so I alternative. It’s now Wrekin connection with cricket. produced a list of Shropshire Nursing Home. When Councillor Paul villages. If you live in the Dothill Street Lane was a Roman road Woodhall died in office as Mayor, area of Wellington you now know – probably called Via Londinium the Wellington Town Council how Strine Close, Clunbury Road by them because it went to requested a street to be named etc., were named. Blame me. London – and Watling Street by after him. Wrekin Council did, but Readers may know that the the early English, but when outside the Wellington boundary. sites of Ercall Junior and Barn Thomas Telford used it for his They refused to change. Farm Schools are being road to Holyhead its name The biggest question of all is redeveloped following their changed. the name of the ‘New Town’. Most demolition for reasons I am unable The Normans even had the locals wanted to keep it as Dawley to understand. The street names I audacity to re-name The Wrekin or use the name Wrekin. We might have suggested to the Town ‘Mount Gilbert’ after some ‘holy’ have tolerated its intrusion better. Council are as follows: Axon, hermit of theirs. Naturally it But the Minister concerned Keith, the architect who designed reverted to its proper name when decided to exercise his authority Barn Farm Estate; Barton, Colonel English became the official and name it after a Scotsman. Arthur, Surveyor; Rushen, language again. Telford isn’t a popular name; Reuben, Town Clerk, and Buttrey, A slum area at the back of High perhaps it served the developers’ Cliff, Headmaster of Princes Street Street, Parton Square, was purpose in diverting attention and School for a very long time. All renamed New Square, though investment from the existing these are worthy people who everybody still called it Little towns, Wellington, Oakengates, contributed to the area. Will they Ireland. Back Lane is now King Dawley and Madeley. be used? Do you think that they Street and Belleview Road is Never mind, dawn is breaking should? Constitution Hill. Cart Road has and Telford & Wrekin Council I wrote a little on names in a become Bank Road, Dun Cow now talks about Borough Towns. previous Wellingtonia, when Lane is Duke Street and Swine Hurrah! commenting about Allan Frost’s Market is Bell Street. Names do matter after all. historic map. It’s an interesting line of inquiry and there’s only room for a little of what I know and don’t know. I live in Barnfield Street signs need to be Crescent and would like to know accurate. Sadly, the sign for if it was named after Richard Greenman Close off Mill Barnfield, the Shropshire poet, Bank has lost its historic whose most famous line was, meaning by the omission of ‘Nothing is more certain than a space between ‘Green’ and uncertainties’. Of course there may ‘Man’. It’s supposed to refer have been a barn in the field – I to the former existence of the don’t know. Green Man pub. Will the Victorians often named their Council rectify the mistake? 2 Wellingtonia: Issue 4, Summer 2009 MARKET MATTERS Allan Frost uch has been made of the already had a thriving and Market Charter of the prosperous market which had Myear 1244 granted by been in existence for centuries; King Henry III to Giles of most likely it began when people Erdington, lord of our manor. living in farms around the village The actual charter is held in the came to attend services at the National Archives and the extract original Saxon church. relating to Wellington is shown in What could be better than the centre of the illustration below. combining a visit to church with a As with all legal documents of the chance to sell surplus produce and causing too much congestion to time, it is written in Latin and make a little extra money? (horse drawn) vehicles and contains many standard Giles didn’t simply want to pedestrians.
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