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In 1964, plans were made to hive off 19,000 copies of the Salop edition to create the Shropshire Star, published at a new photo-composed offset printing plant in Ketley. The board saw an opportunity with the growth of Dawley New Town – later renamed Telford – and produced a successful news and advertising product to serve a county that is a ...
The ruins of Bridgnorth Castle. Bridgnorth is named after a bridge over the River Severn, which was built further north than an earlier bridge at Quatford. [4] The earliest historical reference to the town is in 895, when it is recorded that the Danes created a camp at Cwatbridge; [5] subsequently in 912, Æthelfleda constructed a mound on the west bank of the River Severn, or possibly on the ...
Bridgnorth was a parliamentary borough in Shropshire which was represented in the House of Commons of England from 1295 until 1707, then in the House of Commons of Great Britain until 1800, and in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until its abolition in 1885.
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Bridgnorth District was a local government district in Shropshire, England, from 1974 to 2009. Its council was based in the town of Bridgnorth . The district also included the towns of Much Wenlock , Shifnal and Broseley and the villages of Albrighton and Sheriffhales , as well as RAF Cosford .
William Bree, Archdeacon of Coventry (1887–1908) [1]; Rev. Robert William Eyton (1815–1881), Rector of Ryton and author of The Antiquities of Shropshire (1853–60). Bishop James Fraser (1818–1885), reforming Bishop of Manchester.
Key objects in the collection include: The financial scandal of the 1720s, the South Sea bubble, with reports in the Weekly Journal or Saturday’s Post of how Parliament decided that if they left the country, the directors of the South Sea company "shall suffer death as a felon without benefit of clergy and forfeit to the King all his Lands, Goods and Chattels whatsoever."
He was also Recorder of Bridgnorth (1946–51), of Smethwick (1951–52) and of Wolverhampton (1952–61), and deputy chairman of the Shropshire Quarter Sessions (1954–71). In 1961, he was elevated to the High Court (taking the conventional knighthood at the same time), and was assigned to the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division.