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Spring Village, Shropshire
Horsehay is a suburban village on the western outskirts of Dawley in the Telford and Wrekin borough of Shropshire, England. Horsehay lies in the Dawley Hamlets parish, and on the northern edge of the Ironbridge Gorge area. Horsehay used to have four pubs, The Station Inn, The Forester Arms, the All Labour In Vain and the Travellers Joy, however The Station Inn closed down in 2012, and the All Labour In Vain closed in 2014. It also has a Methodism, Methodist Chapel, a village hall, a post office, and a golf course complete with restaurant. Etymology The rough meaning of its name is 'an enclosure for horses', as ''hay'' is usually added to place names to indicate an enclosure of some sort. The origin of the name dates back to no earlier then 1759. and as late as 1981 it was reportedly pronounced "Ossay" in local dialect. History Originally Horsehay was nothing more than a farm, until the 1750s when Abraham Darby II built a blast furnace next to what is now known as Horsehay Poo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawley Hamlets
Dawley Hamlets is a civil parish in the Telford and Wrekin district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. The parish covers Horsehay, Doseley, Little Dawley (also traditionally known as Dawley Parva), Lightmoor and Aqueduct, Shropshire, Aqueduct. In 2021 the parish had a population of 8,008. The parish was formed on 1 April 1988. The name Dawley comes from Old English meaning ''woodland clearing associated with a man called Dealla''. See also * Listed buildings in Dawley Hamlets * William Ball (Shropshire Giant), buried at St Luke's Church, Doseley References Dawley Hamlets, Civil parishes in Shropshire Telford and Wrekin {{Shropshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a transitional period of the global economy toward more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes, succeeding the Second Agricultural Revolution. Beginning in Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain around 1760, the Industrial Revolution had spread to continental Europe and the United States by about 1840. This transition included going from craft production, hand production methods to machines; new Chemical industry, chemical manufacturing and Puddling (metallurgy), iron production processes; the increasing use of Hydropower, water power and Steam engine, steam power; the development of machine tools; and rise of the mechanisation, mechanised factory system. Output greatly increased, and the result was an unprecedented rise in population and population growth. The textile industry was the first to use modern production methods, and textiles b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listed Buildings In Dawley Hamlets
Dawley Hamlets is a civil parish in the district of Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England. The parish contains 14 Listed building#England and Wales, listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest". The parish includes the settlements of Dawley, Doseley, and Horsehay. The listed buildings include houses and cottages, a farmhouse, a former canal aqueduct and bridge, a chapel, a church, offices, and a railway bridge. __NOTOC__ Buildings References Citations Sources * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dawley Hamlets Lists of buildings and structures in Shropshire Dawley Hamlets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ball (Shropshire Giant)
William Ball (1795–1852), the "Shropshire Giant", was a nineteenth-century iron puddler and "giant". As an adult he was tall and weighed more than forty stone (560 pounds, 254 kg). It was said that his "waistcoat was so big that three men could be buttoned into it". He was known locally as a cheerful man with a very pleasing disposition. Early life He was born in June 1795 at Horsehay, Great Dawley, Shropshire where he would live for his whole life. His exact date of birth is unrecorded, but he was baptised on 8 July. He was the first son of five children born to Thomas and Elizabeth Ball of Horsehay. Ironworker From the age of eight he was employed in the Coalbrookdale Company's Horsehay Ironworks, where he continued for forty years (to 1843). He worked mostly as a puddler and later as a shingler. Puddling is a skilled and extremely strenuous job, requiring great physical strength. 'Big Billy Ball' was immensely strong, on one occasion reputedly lifting a piece of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hendy
Paul Clifford Hendy (born 22 July 1966) is a British script-writer, novelist, director, producer and filmmaker. In his early career, he was a TV presenter hosting the BAFTA nominated ''Dear Mr Barker'' (BBC), '' Don’t Try This at Home'' ( ITV), '' The Disney Club'' (ITV), and the final series of '' Wheel of Fortune'' (ITV). He was a regular reporter on ITV’s '' This Morning'' and hosted ''Stash the Cash''. Early career Hendy was born in Dawley on 22 July 1966. Hendy's career started as a member of The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, playing the part of Billy Casper in ''Kes'' in 1980. His first break into television came when he hosted ITV's Sunday morning flagship show '' The Disney Club''. After leaving ''The Disney Club'', Hendy went to the BBC and hosted the Saturday morning show ''Parallel 9'' which was broadcast live from Pinewood Studios. He has also presented ''Disney Summer Holidays'' (ITV), ''For Amusement Only'' (BBC), ''Highly Sprung'' (BBC), ''Travel B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Froggatt
Raymond William Froggatt (13 November 1941 – 23 July 2023) was an English songwriter and singer.Larkin, Colin (1998) ''The Virgin Encyclopedia of Country Music'', Virgin Books, , p. 159-160 Biography Froggatt (otherwise known as "Froggy") was born in Bordesley Green, Birmingham on 13 November 1941. He began performing rock and roll in the early 1960s before moving on to focus on Country music, Country and Western. His band, initially known as the Buccaneers, later Monopoly and ultimately The Raymond Froggatt Band with guitarist Hartley Cain (H Cain), drummer Len Ablethorpe and whose bassist was Louis Clark of Electric Light Orchestra and Hooked on Classics fame, were signed by Polydor Records, Polydor in 1964. However record chart, chart success eluded them, although the Dave Clark Five had a No. 7 hit record, hit in the UK Singles Chart with Froggatt's "The Red Balloon" in 1968. His own original version of the song, under the title "Callow-la-vita", reached No. 3 in the Nethe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and American southwest, the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is primarily focused on singing Narrative, stories about Working class in the United States, working-class and blue-collar worker, blue-collar American life. Country music is known for its ballads and dance tunes (i.e., "Honky-tonk#Music, honky-tonk music") with simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies generally accompanied by instruments such as banjos, fiddles, harmonicas, and many types of guitar (including acoustic guitar, acoustic, electric guitar, electric, steel guitar, steel, and resonator guitar, resonator guitars). Though it is primarily rooted in various forms of American folk music, such as old-time music and Appalachian music, many other traditions, including African-American, Music of Mexico, Mexican, Music of Ireland, Irish, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brother Cadfael
Brother Cadfael is the main fictional character in a series of historical murder mysteries written between 1977 and 1994 by the linguist-scholar Edith Pargeter under the name Ellis Peters. The character of Cadfael himself is a Welsh Benedictine monk living at the Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, in Shrewsbury, western England, in the first half of the 12th century. The stories are set between about 1135 and about 1145, during "The Anarchy", the destructive contest for the crown of England between King Stephen and his cousin Empress Maud. As a character, Cadfael "combines the curious mind of a scientist/pharmacist with a knight-errant". He entered monastic life in his forties after being both a soldier and a sailor; this worldly experience gives him an array of talents and skills useful in monastic life. He is a skilled observer of human nature, inquisitive by nature, energetic, a talented herbalist (work he learned in the Holy Land), and has an innate, although ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Pargeter
Edith Mary Pargeter (28 September 1913 – 14 October 1995), also known by her pen name Ellis Peters, was an English author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics. She is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern, and especially for her medieval detective series The Cadfael Chronicles. Personal Pargeter was born in the village of Horsehay (Shropshire, England), daughter of Edmund Valentine Pargeter (known as Ted) and his wife Edith ''nee'' Hordley. Her father was a clerk at the local Horsehay Company ironworks. She later moved with her parents to Dawley where she was educated at Dawley Church of England School and the old Coalbrookdale High School for Girls.Article by Toby Neal, part of series on West Midlands worthies. She had Welsh ancestry, and many of her short stories and books (both fiction and non-fiction) are set in Wales and its borderlands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ball (born 1948 ...
William Ball may refer to: * William Ball (MP) ( 1571), MP for Nottingham * William Ball (astronomer) (1627–1690), English astronomer * William Lee Ball (1781–1824), Virginia congressman * William Ball (Shropshire Giant) (1795–1852), 40 stone iron puddler * William Ball (Michigan politician) (1830–1902), Lieutenant Governor of Michigan, USA, 1889 * William Ball (footballer) (1886–1942), English footballer * William Macmahon Ball (1901–1986), Australian academic and diplomat * William Ball (skier) (1908–1979), Canadian skier and Olympic competitor * William Bentley Ball (1916–1999), American constitutional lawyer * William Ball (director) (1931–1991), American stage director * William L. Ball William Lockhart Ball III (born June 10, 1948) is an American former government official and political appointee. He held senior posts in the Reagan Administration, beginning as an Assistant Secretary of State under George Shultz in 1985 . He m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horsehay Railway Station
The Wellington and Severn Junction Railway was a railway in Shropshire, England. It was built between 1857 and 1861 and formed part of the Wellington to Craven Arms Railway. For much of its working life, it was operated by the Great Western Railway and subsequently the Western Region of British Railways The Western Region was a region of British Railways from 1948. The region ceased to be an operating unit in its own right on completion of the "Organising for Quality" initiative on 6 April 1992. The Region consisted principally of ex-Great We .... Stations Its route covered the following stations: * * *Ketley Town Halt *New Dale Halt *Lawley Bank *Horsehay * * * *Green Bank Halt *Coalbrooke *Buildwas *Farley Halt *Much Wenlock *Westwood Halt *Presthope *Easthope Halt *Longville *Rushbury *Harton Road *Marsh Farm Junction *Stretford Bridge Junction * References * * Sources #https://www.national-preser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Darby III
Abraham Darby III (24 April 1750 – 1789) was an English ironmaster and Quaker. He was the third man of that name in several generations of an English Quaker family that played a pivotal role in the Industrial Revolution. Life Abraham Darby was born in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, in 1750, the eldest son of Abraham Darby the Younger (1711–1763) by his second wife, Abiah Maude, and educated at a school in Worcester kept by a Quaker named James Fell. At age thirteen, Darby inherited his father's shares in the family iron-making businesses in the Severn Valley, and in 1768, aged eighteen, he took over the management of the Coalbrookdale ironworks. He took various measures to improve the conditions of his work force. In times of food shortage he bought up farms to grow food for his workers, he built housing for them, and he offered higher wages than were paid in other local industries, including coal-mining and the potteries. He built the largest cast iron structure of his er ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
