Spencer’s Mall, Carrefour, the green fountain – over the last 50 years Telford Shopping Centre has made its fair share of changes.
Today, the shopping centre is among the 25 largest malls in the country and welcomes around 15 million visitors each year.
We’ve had a dive through the archive to see what Telford treasures we can turn up.
Building begins
The 52-acre indoor shopping centre and its surrounding facilities were built largely over the old town of Malinslee – more specifically, Malinslee Hall.
The hall, and the ruins of a Norman chapel, several homes and a farm were flattened to make way for the new complex (thankfully, the ancient chapel was rebuilt years later in Telford Town Park – where it remains today).
Residents of the community of Dark Lane, with terraced homes and a chapel, were also moved out as part of the creation of the new town centre.
