Shropshire Routes to Roots

Worksheet: Pictures

• Study the two pictures below.
• The top picture (the engraving) shows what Holy Trinity church in Wrockwardine Wood looked like in the late Eighteenth or early Nineteenth Century, around 1800.
• The second picture (the photograph) shows what the same church looked like in the 1960s.

Wrockwardine Wood Church in the late Eighteenth or early Nineteenth Century

Wrockwardine Wood Church in the 1960s

• Compare the two pictures, and complete the sentences below.
• Fill in the blanks using these words:
  houses, glass works, houses, house, cow, gravestones, hedges and bushes.

In the 1800s, behind the Church, there were some ____________________________ . To the right of the church there was one large____________________________ .

In the 1960s, behind the Church there were more ____________________________ .

In the 1800s, there were more ____________________________ with ____________________________ grazing in the fields.

In the 1960s the field had ____________________________ in it.

What differences do you think you would see if you looked at the church today?

• Look closely at the next two pictures.
• The top picture shows an Inclined Plane at Trench, near Wrockwardine Wood. An inclined plane is type of railway used to pull goods or barges on a canal to the top of a hill.
• The top picture was taken some time before 1921.
• The second picture is taken from almost the same spot as the first. It was taken some time after 1981, when the road opened.

The inclined plane at Trench before 1921

Near the spot where the inclined plane was after 1981

• Complete the following table by writing the things you can see in the background (the top third), the middle ground (the middle third) and the foreground (the bottom third) of each photograph.