Anth Rowley

Coalbrookdale - standing on the edge of the village green is the memorial to the workers of the former Coalbrookdale Company 1709 - 2017 The Memorial is easily missed by visitors to the area, but it is worth a stroll off the main tourist route to see - ///canyons.dolly.restrict

One of two 19th-Century Board of Ordnance iron troughs that sit on the edges of the Museum of Iron's car-park in Coalbrookdale. Now used as planters for crocus, they would have been used to hold & store more potent materiel in the past... ...swords to ploughshares

@pete_savin Here be dragons...

@anth__rowley Nice shot, I went to look at this a few years back, I seem to remember a nice Tympanum over the church door

I’ve been Looking at Churches around the Roman town of #Wroxter this week at the reused masonry from the site #archaeology

A new blog highlighting the wanderings of the Overley Hill Trig Pillar, how it's new position links in with Telford's industrial heritage and a little known connection to a South Wales village's sports teams rowleyanth.wordpress.com/2026/02/23/a-w…

@MarcPetty9 Marc, thanks for the kind words - really appreciated 👍

@anth__rowley Anth, what an incredible piece of research - BRILLIANT! 👏 I'm sure my dear old friend George Evans would've loved this article.

A new blog about the history of the Wrekin's Rifle Range from it's establishment because of the threat of French invasion in 1859; it's connection to the Olympic Games; the drive to close it from the 1970s; and fun & frivolities in the 2000s. rowleyanth.wordpress.com/2026/01/31/the…

A new (short) blog that highlights a 'forgotten' WWI memorial hidden in plain sight on Church Street, St Georges, Telford rowleyanth.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/st-…

Another @MACEarchive video about Telford, an ATV piece from 1979 on the (largely) positive work of TDC in Ironbridge to rejuvenate the town It includes interviews with Eustace Rogers; the director of Blists Hill; and the late, great Billy Wright macearchive.org/films/atv-toda…

A new blog providing a transcript of the Illustrated London News Article that reported on a visit by the British Association to the Wrekin in Sept-1865 to study the Silurian Period geology and to sample the food & beer at the Wrekin Cottage rowleyanth.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/sep…

From @MACEarchive 'Dawley: The New Town Before Development' Filmed in 1963, it is 22-mins of silent footage of the area around Dawley, Madeley & Ironbridge, towns that would subsequently form the southern extent of Telford New Town macearchive.org/films/dawley-n…

Oakengates Fellowship FC - an amateur football team that competed in the Wellington League before WWII The linked blog contains a selection of the team's match reports from '37 & '38 when subs weren't allowed & goalies could be shunted over the goal-line rowleyanth.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/oak…

A new blog - this one is about a hidden Ordnance Survey Bench Mark in Oakengates, Telford and how it is a part of & a witness to the ever-changing development & rejuvenation of my home town rowleyanth.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/oak…

A selection of the Christmas Trees within the National Trust's Attingham House, Shropshire - photos taken last weekend

On the lower slopes of the south side of the Wrekin (near to the Permissive Path) lies a toppled Boundary Stone that dates from at least the C19th The BS marked Duke of Cleveland's estate (now managed as the Raby Estate) to the west and the Orleton Estate to the east.

Some photos from walking up, over & around the Wrekin this morning. From fungi on the north-side, to a toppled C19th boundary on the lower southern slopes, to the sun glinting off the Toposcope and casting the Hill's shadow across the Shropshire Plain.

Not a 'ghost sign', more a 'ghost instruction' - noticed this on the wall in the courtyard at Attingham Park "DRY SWILL | TEA LEAVES | PEELINGS| WET SWILL" which presumably went down the drain to be collected as food for the animals or used as compost.

A trip around the gardens of Berwick House (Shrewsbury, Shropshire) this evening for the Christmas Lights Trail - also popped in the house to find this magnificent Shropshire Yeomanry helmet on display. Left wondering about it's history.

The Wrekin's Half-Way Stone - a blog about a piece of the Wrekin's history that is forgotten, if not unknown, that could one day return to its former standing... rowleyanth.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/the…