I stopped off at Telford for a night on my way to Bridgnorth Folk Festival ( an exeptional Festival a review of which will follow as and when Ciao has a slot for Folk Festivals). Stayed at the Telford Travel Inn just to use up some old vouchers, the price should have been around £49.95. A promise they make is that should your sleep be disturbed in any way before 7am they will give you a refund and at around 6.30 am I awoke to the sound of a bin/skip lorry as the room I was in was at the back of the hotel. Although I would have accepted less the duty manager insisted on a full refund. Shopping, Telford has a very nice new shopping mall with most of the major retail outlets within, when I went the car park had the offer of 20 minutes free, so if you got your ticket back through the exit machine within that time you are ok. Great for blokes like me who know excactly what we want and can still dash twixt prams and pushchairs and other obstacles without causing any bother. The only downside is a Pound shop just inside one of the main doors, now that can seriously jeopardize one's sense of time as there is nearly always something at that price that will come in for something, the task is finding it. 3 nights later after the Folk Festival I was back at Telford and this time stayed at the Seven Gorge Park caravan/campsite. I ventured back to the Shopping centre to replenish supplies and then had serious trouble getting back to the campsite off the A442 ring road. I new it was somewhere off the ring road as that is where it was when I first found it, however getting back to it caused me problems I even had to ask for directions, I had visions of spending the night in the car but eventualy found it again. Telford is an ideal base from which to explore the surrounding countryside on my day I chose one of the areas responsible for the birth of the Industrial Revolution. The Seven Gorge and the villages of Coalbrookdale and Ironbridge the latter being the site of the Famous Bridge over the River Seven which was cast in Coalbrookedale in 1779, the bridge is open to foot traffic only and has a visitor centre on one side. A pleasantriverside walk takes you to some of the other attractions museums etc and with tourists in mind cafe's and gift shops are plentiful. On my stroll by the river I saw an animal swimming across when it got to the other side it hopped out and shook its tail and..........
Scurried up a tree "Swimming Squirrels" whatever next?.
an internet search will reveal much more than I can say here.
Phil
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I have been to Bridgnorth several times as I have a nephew who lives there - but I've never stopped at Telford. I believe he shops there regularly though. Hazel xx
The_Nursey 23.04.2005 22:45
I recall getting lost in Telford as well!
mesmer 23.04.2005 22:28
The place itself sounds great, would consider going oneday. mesmer
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