๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect/Furniture/Tile Designer George Edmund Street is associated with Telford. He was one of the leading figures in the Gothic Revival movement in Britain.
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Telford is a large town in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. Telford is the largest town in Shropshire, and one of the fastest-growing towns in the United Kingdom. It is named after civil engineer Thomas Telford, who engineered many road and rail projects in Shropshire. The town was developed in the 1960s and 1970s as a new town on previously industrial and agricultural land and towns. Like other planned towns of the era, Telford was created from the merger of other settlements and towns, most notably the towns of Wellington, Oakengates, Madeley and Dawley.
Telford Shopping Centre, a modern shopping mall, was constructed at the new town's geographical centre, along with an extensive Town Park. The M54 motorway was completed in 1983, improving the town's road links with the West Midlands conurbation. On Telford's southern boundaries is the Ironbridge Gorge, a scenic tourist destination and UNESCO World Heritage Site. The town advertises itself as "The Birthplace of Industry", due to it having Coalbrookdale and other places in the Ironbridge Gorge area, within its boundary. These areas are internationally recognised as being important to the Industrial Revolution, and being to a large extent constructed on the Shropshire Coalfield.
Economy During the economic crisis of the late 1960s (with unemployment doubling nationally during the second half of the decade), unemployment in the then-new town was initially high.
However, in 1967 Halesfield Industrial Estate was founded on the south-eastern edge of the town โ the first real answer to Telford's unemployment problems. Other large estates followed, in 1973 with Stafford Park just east of the town centre and in 1979 with Hortonwood, to the north, helping ease the unemployment crisis in a decade which saw an almost unbroken rise in unemployment.
In total, half a million square metres of factory space were provided between 1968 and 1983, making Telford an attractive investment area.
By 1976, Telford had begun to recruit industry from the US, Europe, and Japan. The foreign firms required larger factories, and they began to be built at Stafford Park. By 1983 over 2,000 jobs in Telford were provided by around 40 (mostly American) foreign companies. In contrast to industry in the Black Country at the time, these new companies focused on high-technology industries rather than the heavy and metal-finishing industries.
The new arrivals included the American company Unimation and three firms from Japan: Nikon UK Ltd., which opened a warehouse at Halesfield in 1983; videotape manufacturers Hitachi Maxell at Apley Castle in 1983; and office equipment manufacturers Ricoh, who took a 22-acre (89,000ย m2) site for a factory at Priorslee next to the M54, and formed the first in Telford's new enterprise zone.
Consequently, from the later 1970s, Telford began to attract high-technology firms and to diversify its industry, and the promotion of the Service industry also began to prosper, in the Telford Town Centre area. However, a deepening national recession meant that, despite the creation of new jobs, there were net job losses from 1979. Unemployment grew from 3.4 per cent in 1969 to over 8 per cent in 1972 and 22.3 per cent (almost double the national average) in 1983; long-term unemployment rose even faster. Nevertheless, the rate of increase in unemployment was slowing down by 1983 and was making some progress against national and regional trends.
Unemployment in Telford was still around the 20% mark โ nearly double the national average at the time โ as late as 1986. The Lawson Boom of the next three years saw that figure fall dramatically by the end of the decade, only for it to rise to a similarly high figure again by 1992 as a result of the early 1990s recession. In recent years the local economy has matured, the median gross weekly earnings for full-time workers who work in Telford and Wrekin was ยฃ563 in 2019 (West Midlands ยฃ552.50 and England ยฃ591.40).
Telford has attracted several large IT services companies, including EDS who support the MOD contract from the Euston Park site, as well as a vast array of clients across the world from the Plaza building. Also Capgemini and Fujitsu employ a significant number of staff in the area, mainly supporting their governmental client, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC). The expansion in these job sectors provided a great asset to Telford's economic recovery after 1992. By August 2007, the success story of Telford's economy had seen unemployment shrink to 3.3% โ a fraction of its peak 15 years earlier.
However, the subsequent recession meant that unemployment in the area had risen to 5% by February 2011, although this was still well below the national average.
The Shropshire Star evening newspaper is based at Ketley, Telford. There is a free local paper the Telford Journal which is also published by the Shropshire star.
There have been job losses, with the movement of 500 Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO) jobs at the MoD base at Sapphire House, Telford, to Bristol. The sugar beet factory at Allscott closed in 2007.
Telford has a population of over 155,000 people. Telford also forms part of the wider Telford-Shrewsbury metropolitan area which has a population of over 278,000 people. It is estimated there are around 6,015 businesses in Telford.
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๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect/Furniture/Tile Designer George Edmund Street is associated with Telford. He was one of the leading figures in the Gothic Revival movement in Britain.
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๐ฌ๐ฌ St Peter Port -2.537
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Locations Near: Telford -2.44876,52.6754
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๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Kidderminster -2.271,52.389 d: 34
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Stafford -2.117,52.807 d: 26.7
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Stourbridge -2.148,52.458 d: 31.6
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๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Newcastle-under-Lyme -2.228,53.011 d: 40.1
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Stoke-on-Trent -2.183,53 d: 40.3
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Crewe -2.44,53.099 d: 47.1
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Rowley Regis -2.047,52.488 d: 34.2
Antipodal to: Telford 177.551,-52.675
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๐ณ๐ฟ Invercargill 168.373,-46.413 d: 19055.6
๐ณ๐ฟ Queenstown 168.658,-45.033 d: 18946.4
๐ณ๐ฟ Wellington 174.767,-41.283 d: 18731.1
๐ณ๐ฟ Hutt 174.917,-41.217 d: 18725.6
๐ณ๐ฟ Lower Hutt 174.917,-41.217 d: 18725.6
๐ณ๐ฟ Upper Hutt 175.05,-41.133 d: 18717.9