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Right on the centre point of SJ6910 is "The Depot". Not, as you may think, a tyre and battery centre but a dance studio. I expect they can do wonders for any spare tyres.
©Gordon Cragg
©Mr M Evison
No longer used as a station it is now a dental practice
©Mr M Evison
The Holyhead Road (old A5) looking West. This is the line of Thomas Telford's great road from London to Holyhead. Now superseded by the M54 motorway. Click for another view looking East [[1161699]].
©Gordon Cragg
Must be George V, because if it was George VI, the number would be shown.
©Mike White
Shifnal 4, Salop (Shrewsbury) 13 Miles 6 furlongs. A cast-iron milepost on the old A5.
©Mike White
Others have photographed this milepost in detail (e.g.[[1027402]]), but this shows how much it's sinking into the verge beside the road.
©Richard Law
The Pear Tree pub as it was in 2003. Before the Holyhead Road was built in the 1820s, this was the route of the Ketley Canal which ran from a junction with the Shropshire Canal to the iron foundries at Ketley. The district was well known for the many fruit orchards that existed before it was covered with coalpits and waste heaps.[[http://NE-Telford-Pubs.fotopic.net]]
©Gordon Cragg
The conversion of the old Pear Tree Bridge Inn, on Holyhead Road, into flats is steaming ahead. They appear to be retaining as much of the old character as possible. Hope they keep the Inn Sign, would be a shame to see it go. The pub in better times---[[1053690]]
©Gordon Cragg
The Pear Tree Bridge Inn on the old A5 (B5061) awaits its fate.
©Mike White
Dist:0.1km<br/>Happily it's being renovated and looks odd with the stucco stripped off some rather untidy, but venerable, brickwork. When it was open it looked like this: [[1053690]].
©Mike White
Dist:0.1km<br/>One of Thomas Telford's original milestones from the 1820's, still in position but sinking down, on the Holyhead Road (old A5) at Oakengates. In fact it is not made of stone but cast-iron, should it be a 'mileiron' ?
©Gordon Cragg
Dist:0.1km<br/>The station is still open, but few trains stop here anymore.
©Steve McShane
Dist:0.1km<br/>A view from Dukes Hill, Ketley Bank, across Oakengates to the Cockshutt above the valley.
©Gordon Cragg
Dist:0.2km<br/>Although only a small town, Oakengates had, in the 1960s, two small bus stations. Here in the Hartshill station, a Bedford of G. Cooper waits with a local service to Priorslee. It is a pity this picture was in black and white, as Cooper used a brilliant orange livery, with a brown stripe.
©Dr Neil Clifton

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