Search
A History of the County of Shropshire
… bear witness to that phase of prosperity. Speculative housing development began south-west of the village in the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of the Wombridge Canal. 20 As elsewhere in the coalfield housing demand occasionally caused the conversion of … century, short terraces again being the dominant form of housing. After the First World War Oakengates urban district council built housing in the north-east corner of the township, the inner …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… either end of the township. 73 Agricultural land shrank as housing expanded in the 1860s and 1870s. In 1891, however, c. … glass furnaces themselves were converted to working class housing known as Glassworks Square. 16 V.C.H. Salop. i. 315. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the 'bulge', and to take more children from new housing; in 1974 the modern school became comprehensive, for …