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not about that. Now read on. expanded from Thursdays Street; I still have it.
During my lifetime Market only to Tuesday, Thursday, Apart from the market the
Street has been through a Friday and Saturday, so it’s big business was brewing
lot of changes, though its much bigger and on four Wrekin Ales. If you want to
underlying character hasn’t days instead of just one. know more about the Wrekin
changed much. In Granddad The stalls have changed of Brewery, read one or more of
Evans’ time the most important
places there were the buy green groceries at Roger steal his thunder. Just one
course, though you can still Allan Frost’s books. I won’t
Horse Repository, Smithfield Maddocks, cheese at Lesley’s
Larder and what Grand-
a booze up in that brewery.
little tale; I once organised
and the market. Where the
market car park is now was dad called ironmongery at Most of the land where the or mineral water works would express if 12 year insurance was settled and a
previously a builders’ yard Aladdin’s Cave.
brewery was is now Wilkinson’s
shop, originally built came the place where we sheath knives nowadays? was constructed. This is now
across the road. That be-
olds went around carrying quite different sort of building
for Pearce’s; before that it Around where the Post
was the place where farmers Office is now, was Turners, as a supermarket. The new went to pay the gas bill or Yet we thought nothing of the office of an estate agent.
left their horses and traps who sold seed for wheat, brewery across the road at to buy any sort of gas appliance,
like a stove or a wash-
for fighting in gangs or mugcupied
by Wellington News.
it. The idea of using knives The upstairs was once oc-
while they went to the livestock
market on Mondays. a wonderful window display addition to Wellington. Three ing machine (yes, there were ging people never crossed Then, when they moved, it
barley and oats. They had the Pheasant is a welcome
Now it’s the modern equivalent
of Granddad’s horse re-
seeds. Behind them was the family went there this year ago) or perhaps we would we just didn’t do that sort of church that later moved to
made from different coloured generations of fathers in my gas washing machines long our minds. We were Scouts; was taken over by a Christian
pository, a car park.
auction room of Patersons, on Fathers’ Day and enjoyed just want some gas mantels thing. This is Wellington, not the old Town Hall, where the
The Market itself has where you could buy antique the brew. It’s a very welcome for the lights. Before the war Georgia, USA where carrying cinema and later night club
changed a lot but remains furniture and household addition to the town and we our streets were lit by gas assault rifles is acceptable. used to be. It later advertised
a wonderful market. It’s goods. I remember buying a must hope it prospers. produced locally from baked At the bottom of the road ‘Airport Tan’ whatever that
been enlarged with the outside
market and the annexe quid around 1951 when we there was once a pop works ander Road. The Gas shop farmers came to buy their Across the road was Turn-
china cabinet there for a few As well as the brewery coal at the bottom of Alex-
was Bromley’s shop, where means, I’ve never asked.
is still there; it was in recent tools, machines and equipment.
It had been a rather all sorts of extremely clever
er’s who sold guns and did
times some sort of gambling
place but today I noticed it larger business, with another things after the style of the
had been emptied and was place in Bridge Road but old blacksmiths. There’s a
for sale. I’ve never been things were changing in story in Wellingtonia, Wellington
History Group’s mag-
in any of our local gaming the agricultural implements
shops because it’s not something
I do - for mathemati-
firms like Bromley’s made well worth reading. The Er-
trade. In Granddad’s day azine, about that business,
cal reasons rather than religious
ones. There was also a premises - binders, cutters, Company’s offices. Next was
all their machinery on the call Hotel is now the Market
school of dance somewhere threshing machines as well Percy Pierce’s Ercall Garage
on the upper floors.
as spades, forks and ‘brumhooks’
for trimming hedges. home of the Pleasant Sun-
with showrooms once the
One very special shop
when I was young was Roberts
the Sadler. It had been a firms in Birmingham and also ganised ‘smoking concerts’.
As time went on the big city day Afternoon (PSA) who or-
leatherworker’s shop, handy the USA were able to mass Percy had started across
for the horse repository but produce the machines and the road making bicycles.
had moved with the times. sell them cheaper. This left GW Harvey was a jeweller
Mrs Drake kept it and sold local firms to deal with repairs,
sales of other firms’ Pierce, Ronald and Graham
and optician, also, like Percy
outdoor clothes, especially
Scout uniforms. One thing I equipment and anything that Murphy, a councillor.
remember buying there was could be hammered out by a Market Street declined
a sheath knife to fit on my good blacksmith.
some years ago but now
belt. It came in very handy Several years ago there seems back in action. I’ve
when we were camping but was a huge fire at Bromley’s, missed out lots of shops and
would now be highly illegal destroying the shop and businesses, past and present
but there’s no room. Go
to carry around. Can you workshops behind. It stayed
imagine the horror everyone empty for some time until the and look for yourself.
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