Madeley Market Town part of Telford Shropshire 200813
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Birthplace of one of England finest football captains. And also was the captain of Wolverhampton Wanderers. Played for England 105 times 90 times as captain.
Born 6th February 1924 and died in London 3rd September 1994. He won the CBE and was married to one of the Beverley sisters -Joy.
If you would like to read more click on link below
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Wright_(footballer_born_1924)
Another interesting Fact the MP Mary Whitehouse was a teacher at Madeley School in the early 1960's and was famous for bringing sex education into schools. Starting at Madeley.
http://www.shropshiretourism.co.uk/madeley/mary-whitehouse/
Went on an evening walk with Pam. This is one of the many walks we photographed during the summer Tuesday evenings, while the camera clubs were closed for the summer breaks.
We covered some miles and went manly all around the centre of Telford. I drove Pam barmy with local history and talking to the visitors, who where at the places and taking their memory photographs. We had spoken to people from Germany, Australia and lots of other places.
Madeley is recorded in the Domesday Book, having been founded before the 8th century. Madeley's industrial activity has largely been mining and later, manufacturing which is still a large employer in the town a long with service industries. Parts of the parish fall within the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Ironbridge gorge, the site of the Iron Bridge, and a key area in in the development of Industry.
The town was founded prior to the 8th century and subsequently became a market town in 13th century.
Sigward a local ruler in the time of King Ethelbald of Mercia is said to have held 3 hides of land at Madeley. Between 727 and 736 he sold his holdings to Mildburth, daughter of Merewalh, sub-king of the magonsaete . She was the founder of the first head of Wenlock Abbey. The monastery was refounded as a Cluniac priory after the Norman conquest but the manor of Madley belonged to the church of Wenlock, throughout the Middle Ages, until the Dissolution of the monasteries. It passed to the Crown in 1540 and in 1544 was sold to Robert Broke a lawyer and politician in Claverley.
Mining of coal began before 1322 and the extraction of Ironstone had begun in 1540. The town played a role in the English Civil war as it was home to a garrison of Royalist soldiers in 1645. Although this post abandoned after the fall of Shrewsbury. Two months later Parliamentary forces occupied the parish church. Madeley is also home to the barn in which King Charles II hid after the Battle of Worcester in 1651,
In the 17th century Madeley was a small market town, but local tradesmen began to specialise, working in the river trad and in mining. In the 18th century the Iron Bridge was built between Madeley Wood and Coalbrookdale and the serlement of Ironbridge grew by it which took some of the commerical trade away from the old town of Madeley including its market.
Residents of the town of Madeley have included Sir Basil Brooke of Madeley Court, who was instrumental in the Industrial Revolution. He was born in the local manor which he later inherited in 1576. His grandfather Robert Brooke was a former speaker of the House of Commons. John Fletcher an English divine, originally from Switzerland, was the vicar of the parish of Madeley in the 18th century. Major Charles Allix Lavington Yate VC is another former resident of the town.
He earned his Victoria Cross in the First World War. He was kinsman of Colonel Sir Charles Yate, 1st Baronet (1849-1940) British soldier and adminstrator in India who retired to Madeley Hall and is buried in the parish churchyard.
I have had correspondence with his daughter who liked the earlier photographs.
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