Telford, By A Resident

Advantages: Shopping, nice areas, easy to get around, close to other places
Disadvantages: Some bad areas, some bad people, bad nightlife

...Ah, Telford. When trying to think about what wonderful review to write next I tried to think about what I know best, and what could I know better than my home town? And so I decided to write a review of Telford and all the exciting things in it, as well as some of the less exciting things. I once saw a duck in Telford. How's that for excitement? Okay, okay, I'll get onto serious buisness. A Brief History I may as well tell you a brief history of the town. It won't take long as the history is brief! Telford is a new town, officially designated in early 1963, then known as Dawley New Town, bringing together many smaller towns and villages in the area. Development continued as more houses and infrastructure were built to strengthen the town, and eventually in 1968, the town took in a greater area, as well as being officially renamed...

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Review of Telford, England

Telford Shropshire

Advantages: Good place to visit, lots to do
Disadvantages: Have to pay to park for town centre everywhere

...Telford, Shropshire Telford is a town in the Midlands just off the M54 making it easy to access. Known as the birthplace of industry This town has lots of attractions and things to do, including a very large shopping centre with lots of shops to suit everyone's shopping needs, all indoors making shopping in any weather enjoyable. There are several very large car parks for the shopping centre all though you do have to pay to park. There is also a large market with stalls both inside and out and a really nice café on the inside of the market area. There are also a few large retail parks in Telford which are just a short car journey away. Just on the edge of the shopping centre is a very large town park, including Wonderland a brilliant day out for all the family that the kids will love, the park is a large safe area, which is...

Hsaxo 23.03.2008 · Read review
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Telford worth a visit

Advantages: Easy to get to
Disadvantages: Finding stuff other than the Iron Bridge

...Telford, in Shropshire, is well worth a visit. It is an area steeped in history. And I am not talking about the faux "Victorian town" constructed at Blists Hill. (Which is really called Blessers Hill, but a cartographer's mistake saddled it with the name Blists Hill.) Did you know that the Civil War opened for business in Wellington, an ancient market town in Telford? It's true! "In September 1642, King Charles I raised his standard in the market square of Wellington, a small, though highly influential, market town in the English Midland county of Shropshire and addressed his troops the next day at nearby Orleton Hall. He declared that he would uphold the Protestant Religion, the Laws of England, and the Liberty of Parliament. The "Wellington Declaration" (otherwise known as the Declaration of Wellington) was held to be so...

Martinscholes 05.09.2005 · Read review
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IVE GOT GAS - OF THE LPG VARIETY

Advantages: Cost, Improves range, Energy reliance, green, improving technology
Disadvantages: Small amount of petrol to start

...My LPG conversion was installed a year ago I had being toying with the idea for a while. after hearing my partners uncle had it on a Lexus I took the plunge. 2 grand a small wheel like tank in tool slot at rear of vehicle and it was installed. The LPG can be switched between petrol and LPG and the fact you can have a tank of petrol and a tank of Gas gives your car a longer range. The LPG tank is full for £20 as oppose to £30 for half a tank of petrol - such a big difference but the car needs a small amount of petrol to start so I keep a quarter of a tank of petrol in usually just for that purpose. If you get the LPG system installed correctly the car doesnt suffer much loss in power. I was made aware of rally cars with 200hp engines running on gas and I also drove a converted vauxhall calibre that really flew, overtaking was easy...

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LPG should you? My experiance as a guide.

Advantages: Cost if done right
Disadvantages: Cost if done wrong

...I have been running on LPG for a little over five years now, and covered a shade under 220,000 miles in two cars. The first car was a Honda Accord 2.2 Coupe that had 65,000 miles on the clock when I had it converted to gas. Used was a cheap and basic OMVL kit. This basically converted an injection engine, into a carburettor engine by inserting little more than an open pipe into the inlet manifold, allowing the engine to suck the gas into the cylinders for combustion. Luckily the engine was powerful enough to start with to compensate for the resulting drop in power. There was a cylinder in the boot behind the back seats which made the boot one foot shorter, but I still retained the full sized spare wheel. The engine was from the ultimately reliable Honda stable so; all the problems that I could/should of have had with such a cheap...

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LPG Vehicles,Should you or Shouldn't you

Advantages: Cheaper fuel costs/extended service intervals
Disadvantages: Finding petrol stations that sell LPG

...At the time I was driving an Alfa romeo 145 Cloverleaf,Any one that knows of these vehicles are aware that they can be a little heavy on petrol with the 2.0 16v engine.A friend of mine suggested I look into an LPG conversion,I read a few reviews as I was not sure how a second hand car with 50.000 miles on would react,Decided that the car was worth investing in the price of the conversion. My first dilema was what sort of tank to use,ie a doughnut tank in the spare wheel well or a free standing tank in the boot area,I wanted a fairly decent range on mileage so opted for a tank in the boot as the wheel well was to small to fit the size of tank I required. The conversion was carried out by a local mechanic & other than a few teething problems with the initial set up I knew I had made the right choice.The car ran fine on the conversion...

Rich1972 19.04.2005 · Read review
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Telford Love it or hate it

Advantages: has a very nice shopping centre (from a blokes point of view)
Disadvantages: I never will get the hang of that flaming ring road.

...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...

philmco 23.04.2005 · Read review
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Having Essex LPG convert your Petrol car

Advantages: Cheap motoring, Cheaper VED (Road Tax)
Disadvantages: Time to convert it, lose a bit of luggage space

...considerably sturdier than a petrol tank and there are safety cut off valves that click in when the ignition is off. I'm no expert on this but I have used the kit for two months on two cars and it's been fine. On the road. You start the engine on petrol and once it warms up it switches to gas. That's it. No input from you. There is a small postage stamp sized box on the dash that has LED's on it. One green and one red you're on petrol. Flashing red - it's switching to LPG . Two green - you're on LPG. There are four smaller green LED's that tell you how much gas you have in the tank. In the centre there's white button that you can manually switch to Petrol if you want and back. But it's not necessary to have any input at all- it's all automatic. Switch over is set to engine temperature and Rev's I believe. Cost. My wife's Xtrail was...

EthanEdwards2002 28.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of Essex LPG Autogas Conversions Ltd, Essex

56p -61p a litre!!!!

Advantages: Cheap fuel, reliable, good for the enviroment
Disadvantages: Takes up some space, only 1200 filling stations

...How would you like to pay 1995 prices again for your fuel? That is between 56p - 61p a litre! Too good to true? A gimmick? Not so, it's even encouraged by the Government. There is no catch, if you want to pay these prices, consider having your car converted to run on LPG. What is LPG? LPG is short for Liquid Petroleum Gas, commonly known as Auto Gas, most petrol driven cars or vans (not diesels) can be converted to run on LPG which almost cuts your fuel costs in half. Currently, there are around 140.000 cars running around the UK able to run on LPG & 11 million worldwide. With around 1200 filling stations with LPG facilities in the UK you are never far away from being able to fill up. LPG is a by product of the extraction & refining of crude oil giving no burn off & it is very environmentally friendly. LPG vehicles emit less Co2...

ScottishWestie 19.09.2008 · Read review
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Sunday Lunch Made Easy

Advantages: Cheap, quick, saves cooking and close to home for me
Disadvantages: Hit and miss with the veg.

...APLEY ARMS, TELFORD, SHROPSHIRE We have had connections with this public house/restaurant for over a decade; it used to be a Harvester and when both our daughter reached the age of 16yrs they started work there, in the kitchens and then as waitresses, so we used to go quite often usually when they were working so we could say hello and they would look after us. I still remember their faces when we would turn up for a meal, especially if we visited with my parents and they got to see their Nan and granddad, my dad used to play them up a little bit. It costs a fortune in tips when it?s your daughter serving you. Anyway, it is no longer a Harvester and my girls no longer work there and haven?t done for a good few years so I will leave the past behind and get to the modern day; it is now part of the crown carveries (www...

arnoldhenryrufus 01.04.2009 (02.04.2009) · Read review
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