WLSF Research
The Wrekin Local Studies Forum has sponsored three day schools on local historical figures. Between these it has published “Transactions” on a mixture of Topics. :-
PROCEEDINGS OF THE WILLIAM REYNOLDS BICENTENARY EVENTS JUNE 2003
Key Dates in Reynolds's Life
The William Reynolds Exhibition - John Powell
The Portraits of William Reynolds - David de Haan
Reynolds the Ironmaster - John R. Brown
Reynolds the Tunnel Builder - Ivor J. Brown
The Wombridge and Ketley Canals - Paul A. Luter
Reynolds, Wilkinson and the Shropshire Canal - Neil Clarke
William Reynolds and the Ceramics Industry - Roger S. Edmundson
Coalport: A New Town of the 1790s? - Marilyn Higson
TRANSACTIONS OF THE WREKIN LOCAL STUDIES FORUM 2006
Dawley in the Civil War - Marilyn Higson
Early Railways on the Coalbrookdale Coalfield - Neil Clarke
William Wolryche Whitmore of Bridgnorth and his Solution to Hereditary Pauperism - Lance Smith
Wappenshall Wharf in the 1830s and 1840s - Peter Brown
PROCEEDINGS OF THE THOMAS TELFORD DAY SCHOOL SEPTEMBER 2007
Thomas Telford in perspective - Barrie Trinder
Thomas Telford: Rome, roads and bath houses - Roger White
Telford and the improvements to the Holyhead Road in East Shropshire - Neil Clarke
St. Michael's Church, Madeley - Shelagh Lewis
Photographing Telford's legacy - Chris Morris
TRANSACTIONS OF THE WREKIN LOCAL STUDIES FORUM 2008-09
Madeley Court - Shelagh Lewis
Wellington before 1700 - Sylvia Watts
Shropshire's Six Inclined Planes, the Engineering Wonders of the Canal Age - Alfred W. Bowdler
An Unusual Discovery at St. Michael's Church, Madeley - Shelagh Lewis
Wellington Union and its Workhouses - Lance Smith
From Trains to Buses, the Closure of the Coalport Branch - Neil Clarke
PROCEEDINGS OF THE JOHN RANDALL DAY SCHOOL SEPTEMBER 2010
John Randall's Early Years - Neil Clarke
Randall the China Painter - Roger Edmundson
Randall as Writer and Geologist - Hugh Torrens
Randall as Historian - BarrieTrinder
Randall in Local Government and Politics - George Baugh
John Randall and Madeley - Shelagh Lewis
John Randall: Author and Publisher - Marilyn Higson
The “John Randall Day School” is still available for purchase from Shelagh Hampton on 01952 567288.
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