Toby Neal takes a look at decades from the past as part of the Shropshire Star's 60th anniversary celebrations. Today, the 1980s.
In so many ways, the 1980s forged modern Britain. Industrial, manufacturing Britain took a hammering and Labour, under veteran left-winger Michael Foot, took such a hammering in the 1983 general election that the party had to embark on a long and painful process of reinventing itself.
Police battled to hold back 500 angry protestors when Employment Minister Jim Prior visited job-starved Telford in 1981 In the summer of 1981, one in five of the working population in the Telford and Bridgnorth area was without a job.Some key pieces ofinfrastructure came to fruition. The M54 motorway finally connected the town to the motorway network in November 1983.
On April 25, 1988, there was another huge fire at the depot, which again covered a large area with asbestos fallout – the asbestos was used in the roof structure – and this time the cost was put at over £174 million.
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