Old Park

[AlanBoyd]

Do you have a link for that?

This is a link into the image of the first page of the baptism register, which is where I started with my transcriptions. Obviously you have to have a FindMyPast subscription for this to work.

http://tinyurl.com/bdzyvsu6

[AlanBoyd]

This is a side-by-side view of the eastern part of the Old Park area in a 20th century OS map (labelled Oldpark), showing Forge Row and Malins Lee Hall. The road coming in from the northwest, Park Lane, looks to have survived in the modern road layout.

http://tinyurl.com/3c8h6859

[Shrop63]

This is a side-by-side view of the eastern part of the Old Park area in a 20th century OS map (labelled Oldpark), showing Forge Row and Malins Lee Hall. The road coming in from the northwest, Park Lane, looks to have survived in the modern road layout.

http://tinyurl.com/3c8h6859

Excellent, thanks for that! I have my GFX4 living in Old Park 1841 but the entry says " Coppy" i take that to mean The Coppice which is marked on the map

[Shrop63]

Colliers Row has survived too. I noticed a Dark Lane on census, i think that must have been changed to Park Lane at some point

[AlanBoyd]

An Old park coal mine photographed just after the Second World War. The piles of pit props,the simple temporary buildings and the pit mounds give the scene a 'frontier' atmosphere. Today Telford's retail park is on this site.

Image and caption from Telford by Maurice de Soissons, 1991. Image is credited to Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust.

[AlanBoyd]

I think Dark Lane may be a different site. This is it apparently – caption says ‘settlement of sixty miners cottages built in the second half of the 19th century’

[Millmoor]

You may find the attached of interest from the Victoria County History:Telford, in particular the map.  Indeed the whole volume is worth looking at and can be easily found on British History Online.
Dark Lane was demolished to make way for part of Telford Town Centre Shopping Centre and the Hollinswood Housing Estate.

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/salop/vol11/pp107-111

William

[AlanBoyd]

Part of a sketch map found in "The industrial revolution in Shropshire" by Barrie Stuart Trinder. I have cropped to show the parish of Dawley.

Uppercase letters indicate parishes; underlining indicates townships, other names are settlements.

Note that the settlement of Dark Lane lies to the east of Old Park. The Severn is just off the bottom of the map.

[Shrop63]

I think Dark Lane may be a different site. This is it apparently – caption says ‘settlement of sixty miners cottages built in the second half of the 19th century’

Yes looks like a different site