Madeley Town Council

All of the following publications are available as hard copies from Jubilee House, but some you can download from here.

Parish People, Parish Places and Parish Pastimes

A developing collection of leaflets produced by Madeley History Group about local people and places:-

• Parish People No. 1:  Major CAL Yate VC
• Parish People No. 2:  Madeley Misdeeds
• Parish People No. 3:  Revd. John Fletcher
• Parish People No. 4:  Billy Wright
• Parish People No. 5:  Edith Pargeter
• Parish People No. 6:  Richie Woodhall
• Parish People No. 7:  Madeley Pioneering Women Preachers
• Parish Places No. 1:  Lumley Hall
• Parish Places No. 2:  Rough Park Farm

 Local History

Information on significant historical events and local information, produced by Madeley Living History Project:

• The Nine Men of Madeley
• The Kings Tankard
• Madeley Town Trail

A5 Booklets (available at Jubilee House – £1 each unless individually priced):

• Parish Pubs
• St Michael’s church yard trail
• Parish Pastimes No. 1 – Madeley Amateur Dramatic society
• Parish Pastimes No. 2 – Madeley Carnivals
• Starting Out on Sutton Hill (foc)
• The Woodside Story (foc)
• The Madeley Wood (Kemberton pit) disaster 1910
• Madeley on the Map – The changing face of Madeley 1910 -2010
• Jubilee House and it’s Artwork
• A Short History of the Fletcher Memorial Methodist Church
• Made in Madeley: the stories of some notable Madeley people
• Three Madeley Houses, their owners and tenants
• The Brooke Family and Madeley
• Thomas Parker (1843 – 1915) ‘The Ingenious Engineer’
• The story of the Anstice Memorial Institute, Madeley
• Places of worship in Madeley
• Mines & mining in Madeley
• Madeley Court (£3.50)

A4 Booklets (available at Jubilee House – £1 each unless individually priced):

• The Brooke Memorials, St Michaels Church, Madeley
• The Beeches Hospital
• The fallen heroes of Coalport & Jackfield in Two World wars: remembered on the Coalport Memorial Bridge
• The Madeley War Memorial
• A list of Workers at Kemberton Pit Madeley Wood Colliery
• The World on a Plate – Recipes from 21st century Madeley people (£2.00 plus P & P)
• A Taste of the Past – Food and Cooking in Britain throughout the ages (£2.00 plus P & P)
• The John Randall day school proceedings (£5 plus P & P)

Other publications available (as priced):

• Charles & Kath Bartlam – Photographers of Court Street, Madeley by Alan Heighway & Peter Wilson (£10.00 plus P & P)
• Madeley Through Time by Alan Eaton (£14.99 plus P & P)
• The Madeley Book (free)
• Ab Dab  (£3.00)

In the 1970’s, Telford Development Corporation produced a number of leaflets on historic buildings throughout Telford.   Six of the leaflets covered buildings in Madeley parish:

• No. 5 – Madeley Court
• No. 6 – Anstice Memorial Hall
• No. 7 – Madeley Hall
• No. 8 – Old Vicarage, Madeley
• No. 9 – Upper House & Barn
• No 10 – Hay Farm

History Group DVD’s (available from Jubilee House):

“Life and Times of Madeley” – A selection of photographs (£1.00)
“Madeley Matters – 100th Edition” – August 2014 (£1.00)
“Cine Film of Madeley and Around” (£1.50)

For further information on local history go to www.madeleylocalhistory.org