_DIRECTORY.l SHROPSHIRE. IRON BRIDGE. 119
IRONBRIDGE, including Madeley Wood, is a market M . .A., L.Th. of Durham University, who is also chaplain town on a steep acclivity ; many of the houses, standing of Madeley union. The Wesleyan :Methodist chapel, upon lofty precipices, have a picturN:que appearance; it erected in the year 1837, is a structure of brick, and has a station on the Severn Valley (Great Western) rail will hold about 700 persons. The Primitive Meth:>di,.t way, and is 6 miles s:mth from Wellington, 6 south-v.est chapel was erected in 1883, and will seat about 300. from Shifnal, 8 north-north-west from Bridgnorth and 13 The Ironbridge Dispensary, in High street, was from Shrewsbury, and was formed into an ecclesiastical established in 1828, but patients now attend parish in 1845 from the parish of Madeley: it is in the at the houses of the different surgeons ; the average Mid division of the county, in Wenlock municipal number of patients is about 1,ooo. The Police Station, borough, Madeley union, petty sessionaJ division and erected in 1862, at the junction of the Madeley and county court district, rural deanery of Wenlock, arch Coalport roads, is a substantial building of brick, con deaconry of Ludlow and diocese of Hereford : the name s:sting of magistrates' room, with retiring room at is derived from an iron bridge which crosses the Severn tached, residence for police, threP cells and prisoners' at this place; it wa-s the first iron bridge of large airing ground. The Madeley Union Workhouse, a dimensions constructed in this country and was cast and structure of brick in the Gothic styde, situated here,. erected at Coalbrookdale in the years 1777-1779 ; the was erected in 1875 at a cost of £r2,ooo. In the Market span of the arch is 100 feet, the width of the bridge, square is a drinking fountain, of red granite, erected in exclusive of parapets, is 26 feet, the height from the base r862, at the expense of Mrs. Bartlett, of Marnwood, in. line to the centre 40 feet ; total weight of iron, 378 tons. memory of her husband, the Rev. John Bartlett M . .A.. The town is lighted with gas from works at Madeley The market day is Friday and a fair is held annually on Wood, established in 1839 and the property of the Iron the 29th of May. The St. Milburga Lodge of Free bridge Gas Light Co. Limited. '!'he watel' supply is masons. numbering 40 members, hold their meetings partly furnished by the Madeley and Broseley Water at the Tontine hotel. The St. John Ambulance Brigade Works irom Harrington, and partly derived from wells (Ironbridge Corps) has 90 members. The representa in the neighbourhood, and is conveyed in iron reains to tives of J. G. and W. Reynolds e~qn. who are lords of the town. The church of St. Luke, erected in 1836, is the manor, William Hemy Foster esq. of Apley Park, an edifice of brick, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and the Coalbroolidale Company, the Madeley Wood Com an embattled tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock pany, Alfred E. W. Darby esq. of Little Ness, and and 3 bells: the west window is stained: in 1900 a new Miss Darby are the principal landowners. Th& soil is organ was placed in the church at a cost of £340: principally clay, with a lime-stone bottom. A limited there are 1,o62 sittings, of which 6o6 are free. The quantity of wheat is grown here. The population in register dates from the year 1834· The living is a rec 1911 was 2,69:;, including 5 officers and 124 inmates. tory, net yearly value £174• inclusive of pew renb, with in Madele"\""• Workhouse . residence, in the gift of the vicar of Madeley, and held since 1913 by the Rev. Albert Edward Almond Shields Sexton, George Baugh, 35 Hodge bower. OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL INSTITUTIONS &c. Post, l\1. 0. &; T. 0. & Telephone Call Office, Iron'" Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee of bridge, Salop.-Mrs. Caroline Rose Randatl, post Madeley Union, Alfred Henry Thorn-Pudsey, Water mistress, Market square. Letters are delivered at loo street 7 a.m. & 2.2a p.m.; dispatched at 10.5 a.m. & 7.15 & Treasurer to thl' Madeley Guardians, John Samuel 8.40 p.m.; sundays, 8.40 p.m. only; office open fi"Oll;l Barker, Lloyds Bank Limited, Market square 8 a.m. till 8 p. m. ; sun days, 8.30 to 10 a. m Collector General District & Water Rates & Water Wall Letter Boxes cleared: -Beech road, 8.30 p.m.; Impector, .Arthur Oram Callear, Municipal buildmgs Belmont toad, 8 ·-f5 a. m. & 8.20 p.m. ; sun days, 8.20 Customs & Excise Officer, John Davies, 28 Church h1ll p.m.; Church hill, 8.45 a.m. & 8.15 p.m.; Dale End, Medical Officers, Madeley Union, lronbridge District, 10.20 a.m. & 6.'i.1 p.m.; sundays, II-45 p.m.; The David Williams Whitfield M.R C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Irel. Lloyds, 8 a.m. & 8.5 p.m. ; sundays, 8.5 p.m.; Lin 8 New road; Madeley No. 2 District, Frederick Wil coln hill, 8.45 a.m. & 8.15 p.m. ; Madeley Wood, 8.30 kinson M.B., Ch.B.Birm. 26 Church hill a.I,U. & 8.1:5 p.m.; sundays, 8.15 p.m.; Station, 10 Madeley Borough Surveyor, George Stevenson, Beech rd a.m. & 8 p.m.; sundays, 8 p.m Public Vaccinator, Madeley District, David William!t' • • Whitfield M.R.O.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Irel. Severn villa PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages & Assessor of Fire Brigade, founded in 1886; fire station. Waterloo Taxes for Madeley Sub-District, Edward Pat ten Smith·- street; Joseph Lloyd, capt. ; Hon. Capt. J. W. White • 49 Church hill John Lloyd, lieut. & 10 men Kmitary Inspector· to Madeley Sanitary District Colll-" Ironbridge Dispensary, J. G. Boon L.R.C.P. & S.I., N'. mittee, Harry Herbert, Guildhall, Much WenlQCk F. Edwards M.B.. Ch.B.Yict. of Bruseley; D. W. Superintendent Registrar of Madeley Union, Alfred Hy-. Whitfield M.R.C.S...Eng., L,B.C.P.I. James P. John Thorn-Pudsey, Waterloo street >