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A History of the County of Shropshire
… were occupied by 35 cottagers, 12 of them at Pain's Lane. By the early 18th century smallholdings probably … had a lease of the Charlton mining interests, and new pits were being sunk in Wrockwardine Wood. In 1736-7 the … Wood Old Yard works and soon became known as the New Yard. 4 Engineering rapidly became as important to the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… least 1914. 5 From 1961 evening classes were held at the new Trench Modern School. 6 All the 19th-century schools were … school opened in 1943; the church school was rebuilt on a new site. Between 1953 and 1977 a new infant school, a new … and even in 1956 only two of its eight teachers were college-trained and certificated. 21 In the 1950s the school …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… curate for Wrockwardine Wood, in a cottage in Furnace Lane. 23 The National school, built near the glassworks and … part of the parish containing part of the Nabb and Pain's Lane was transferred to the new consolidated chapelry later known as St. George's. 28 The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… closed, being replaced by the Methodist church hall, New Donnington. 55 The first Primitive Methodist society in … schoolroom were sold in 1965, having been replaced by a new chapel on the opposite side of the road. 69 Bethesda … the township. 74 The Wesleyan Reformers' Ebenezer chapel, New Street, was built in 1855. It seated 230. It closed in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the vicarage, Shrewsbury abbey undertook to build a new vicarage house opposite the existing rectory in Allscott … with a central stack. 87 That house was sold in 1806 and a new one bought opposite the church, 88 to which the house next door was added by the patron in 1832. 89 A new vicarage house was built south-east of the village in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of which 92 a. of moorland lying 1 km. north-east of Long Lane were allotted to the lord of the manor. 79 Limited … 1838 of other kilns or clamps. 20 A brick kiln at Long Lane in 1838 apparently later closed, to reopen c. 1885. … Extraction continued on a small scale until c. 1960 when new plant was introduced and larger-scale quarrying began …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in the boys' school in 1852. 68 The following year a new St. Peter's Girls' School (with 100 places in schoolroom and classroom) and a new teacher's house were built opposite the church at Miss …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… poor were farmed for £50, to John Hollis. About 1801 a new workhouse had been erected 1 km. west of Wrockwardine on …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… building of the house in 1628 and his own completion of a new wing in 1750. 99 The limits of the 17th-century house … the house to the west and to the south (where there was a new front of seven bays) and added new kitchens on the north and east. 2 Several interior …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in 1799. 49 Meeting houses were licensed at Long Lane in 1818 50 and at Wrockwardine in 1823. 51 Wesleyans met …