Showing posts with label Bridgnorth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bridgnorth. Show all posts
Sunday, April 26, 2026

Bridgnorth's New Market Hall is on the Victorian Society's list of endangered buildings

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The Victorian Society has named its list of the Top Ten Endangered Buildings for 2026, reports Herald Wales . Perhaps the most striking stru...
Sunday, March 08, 2026

Thomas Telford's St Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth, may face closure

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A Bridgnorth church designed by Thomas Telford has serious structural problems, reports the Shropshire Star : In a statement the church said...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Free travel for local residents after Bridgnorth Cliff Railway reopens on Monday

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Good news from Shropshire: the Bridgnorth Cliff Railway will reopen on Monday after being out of use since December 2022. And good news for ...
Tuesday, February 06, 2024

Bridgnorth borrows half a million so town cliff railway can reopen

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The people of Bridgnorth have given their town council the go ahead to borrow half a million pound to fund repairs that will allow the town...
Friday, November 03, 2023

Bridgnorth Town Council faces £750,000 bill after repairs to wall by cliff railway

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From the Shropshire Star :* Repairing a damaged wall that saw Bridgnorth Cliff Railway close last year is to cost the town council more than...
Friday, October 13, 2023

Conservative peer: There are no safe Tory seats in rural Britain

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Shropshire Liberal Democrats have turned themselves into a mighty vote-winning machine. And there's not just Helen Morgan's victory ...
Monday, July 31, 2023

Still no reopening date for the Bridgnorth Cliff Railway

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Bridgnorth's rare inland funicular railway, which has been closed since just before Christmas when problems were found with a wall besid...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Row brewing over repairs to wall beside Bridgnorth Cliff Railway

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Good news: repair work on the wall that closed the Bridgnorth Cliff Railway began yesterday. Bad news: a row is brewing over who will pay fo...
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Work to allow Bridgnorth Cliff Railway to reopen starts on Monday

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Good news from the Shropshire Star . Work to allow the Bridgnorth Cliff Railway to reopen will start on Monday. There had been problems esta...
Tuesday, February 07, 2023

Fears for the future of the Bridgnorth Cliff Railway

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A director of Bridgnorth Cliff Railway, reports the Shropshire Star , fears the visitor attraction could go bankrupt if it stays shut for to...
Thursday, December 22, 2022

Bridgnorth Cliff Railway to be closed for months

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Bridgnorth Cliff Railway has been forced to close. perhaps until Easter, because of the condition of a wall on a neighbouring property owned...
Monday, November 07, 2022

You wait ages for a story about a Shropshire bus ending up in a field and then two come along at once

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Friday wasn't the best day for bus transport in Shropshire. The 501 from Ellesmere to Shrewsbury ended up on its side in a field after t...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

What remains of the railway from Ironbridge to Bridgnorth

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The other day I blogged about proposals to reopen the railway line between Ironbridge and Bridgnorth . This video shows you the state of the...
Friday, March 26, 2021

Plan to reopen railway from Ironbridge to Bridgnorth

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The enthusiasm for reopening long-closed railways has reached Shropshire. A plan has been published to reopen the line up the Severn Valley ...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Shropshire in colour, 1960

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Click on the still of Stokesay Castle above to view a film of Bridgnorth Camera Club's 1960 treasure hunt on the BFI's Britain on...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

My Liberator review of Jonathan Coe's Middle England

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Having disposed of Lord Bonkers , I can post my review article on Jonathan Coe'e Midland England from the current Liberator . These tw...
Saturday, November 03, 2018

Malvern Tipping wins Name of the Day

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Embed from Getty Images The judges were delighted to learn from the Shropshire Star that the director and owner of the Bridgnorth Cliff R...
Wednesday, May 09, 2018

Police seek naked Bridgnorth bridge runners

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Our Headline of the Day, as so often, comes from the Shropshire Star : Up to 12 naked men who ran back-and-forth on a town centre bridg...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

Bridgnorth in 1960 and today

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Bridgnorth has just beaten Market Harborough to win the Large Market Town category in this year's  Great British High Street Awards ...
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Sunday, May 29, 2016

Bridgnorth and the Long Mynd in 1954

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Another gem from the BFI's Britain on Film collection. This one shows a photographic society, apparently from Atherstone in Warwicksh...