Thank you for this. My Dad’s family were from Dark Lane and Stirchley (the Tart and Withington families) and we have Goughs in the family too. It’s a shame that Dark Lane was completely obliterated. I too have the book (I’m in it in a family photo as a child)
Dark Lane has been immortalised with a street name in Malinslee called Dark Lane Drive. I moved to Telford in 1978 lived on Malinslee now in Aqueduct. Love the old pictures and history before Telford
The Chapel and row of terraced houses known as "Bottom Row" was where Duffryn and Dunsheath, Hollinswood are now. The landscape has changed but Dale Acre Way runs a similar route to the original Dark Lane.
lovely to see I used to go shooting at the range there and went with dad many times to get torch batteries from a man who worked in the steel mills wife who worked at the ever ready but sad its all gone now replaced by concrete
I was just 10 when Dark Lane was demolished. My mom used to take my older brother and me to visit Grandad and Gran on the old Coalport Dogger train before Beeching got rid of it. This certainly brings back memories.
Great footage! Where did it come from originally? The male featured at 4:01 is my husband's great grand father Edwin Gough. Can anyone name any of the others? There is also a fabulous book on Dark Lane which provides lots of information and photographs.
Trevor......was dark lane village now dark lane drive Malinslee, as it's just strange how dark lane and Malinslee post office in same footage? Also the train you talk of that's the nee footpath isn't it that leads from town park down to madeley?
Will someone tell me where Dark Lane actually was, I always thought it was Hinckshay Road, the road that goes to the town park but is stopped by a gate, by a car park before you can get to the town park.
Stunning - so pleased to see this. Little bits, and names remain, even the routes of the footpaths but, unless you know where to look all is gone.
Thank you for this. My Dad’s family were from Dark Lane and Stirchley (the Tart and Withington families) and we have Goughs in the family too. It’s a shame that Dark Lane was completely obliterated. I too have the book (I’m in it in a family photo as a child)
Dark Lane has been immortalised with a street name in Malinslee called Dark Lane Drive. I moved to Telford in 1978 lived on Malinslee now in Aqueduct. Love the old pictures and history before Telford
Absolutely breathtaking. . Beautiful such a shame for it to be taken away.
The Chapel and row of terraced houses known as "Bottom Row" was where Duffryn and Dunsheath, Hollinswood are now. The landscape has changed but Dale Acre Way runs a similar route to the original Dark Lane.
lovely to see I used to go shooting at the range there and went with dad many times to get torch batteries from a man who worked in the steel mills wife who worked at the ever ready but sad its all gone now replaced by concrete
Thanks for uploading. Such a shame what it has become.
stunning footage,
This is a great video :-)
I was just 10 when Dark Lane was demolished. My mom used to take my older brother and me to visit Grandad and Gran on the old Coalport Dogger train before Beeching got rid of it. This certainly brings back memories.
Trevor look at comment I left please.
Great footage! Where did it come from originally? The male featured at 4:01 is my husband's great grand father Edwin Gough. Can anyone name any of the others? There is also a fabulous book on Dark Lane which provides lots of information and photographs.
a village such as Dark Lane should have been preserved not obliterated
Trevor......was dark lane village now dark lane drive Malinslee, as it's just strange how dark lane and Malinslee post office in same footage?
Also the train you talk of that's the nee footpath isn't it that leads from town park down to madeley?
. . . meanwhile in a urban planning committee room many miles away . . .
Was Dark Lane the village that was demolished to make way for the Telford shopping centre?
That's fab :-)
Now look at it, concrete.
where my ancestor families Stanley and Dunning came from
Will someone tell me where Dark Lane actually was, I always thought it was Hinckshay Road, the road that goes to the town park but is stopped by a gate, by a car park before you can get to the town park.
I believe it was Hincksay, near to what is now Telford Rugby club and Town park
Hinkshay, 2 of the old houses still stand there.