The Media Archive for Central England is the public screen archive for the East and West Midlands. An independent charity and company based at the University of Lincoln, MACE acquires, catalogues, preserves and makes widely available moving image materials that inform our understanding of the diverse cultures and histories of communities between the Lincolnshire coast and the Welsh border.
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Bewdley By-pass
People power brings Bewdley to a standstill as calls for a bypass for the historic Worcestershire town grows.
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Overview
By 1980 Bewdley in Worcestershire, the onetime home of the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, was facing a familiar problem. Choked with traffic the roads of the ancient market town, including the Thomas Telford designed bridge over the River Severn, were seeing a level of usage undreamt of in 1798. Not surprisingly Christopher Milner of the Midlands Road Development Group is able to reel off a list of similarly affected local towns to reporter Peter Green.
Bewdley did get its bypass with a new road bridge over the River Severn being opened at Blackstone in 1987.
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