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BBC News
27-02-2025
- BBC News
Photo displays brighten up Wellington railway station
Unused window-spaces at a train station have been brightened up with photos of local landmarks, as part of improvements costing £30, money, which came from West Midlands Railway, was also used to fit a kitchen, replace signs, plant flowers and refurbish storage rooms at Wellington Station in Windows on Wellington project challenged local photographers to come up with images of well-known Wellington views to form the window Howard from The Friends of Wellington Station said the grant had made a "huge difference". She said the window photos "really brighten up the platform and show people what a great town Wellington is, hopefully encouraging people to get off the train and visit our town".Sally Themans of Love Wellington said they were a "perfect advertisement of all that Wellington and the surrounding area has to offer". Follow BBC Shropshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
20-02-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Memorabilia call for VE Day 80th year party in Wellington
Celebration organisers have appealed for wartime memorabilia to help mark the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) in Shropshire has planned a celebration which starts on 8 May with a proclamation and a piper along with a day of music, singing and dancing in the town square on 10 Themans, from Love Wellington, said organisers were looking for old photographs of the town on the original VE Day at the end of World War Two in was the day the European phase of the war ended with the unconditional surrender of all Nazi German forces to the Allies. Wartime farmers Wartime memorabilia could include any old photographs or objects, including pictures of relatives celebrating on the historic day, Ms Themans said."We'd really love to have copies of photos and do some kind of display."She said her own mother-in-law had lived in Wellington throughout the war and the family had been mother-in-law could remember VE Day very clearly, the American troops stationed in and around the town - and the party atmosphere, because everyone was "so relieved" when the war was over. Entertainment on 10 May will include a 1940s singer and Lindy Hop dancers along with the Wellington Brass Band."Needless to say, the market square in the centre of Wellington will be bedecked with red, white and blue bunting and ribbons," Ms Themans flags, cupcakes and chips will be on hand and commemorative pin badges and coins will be given to children in the town and some of the older people as with memorabilia can contact Wellington Town Council. Follow BBC Shropshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
