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The End of the Road
Foundry Road continued to play an important role in Wellington's life as a town in the 20th Century. The Wrekin Foundry eventually became the home of James Clay (Wellington) Ltd., who manufactured agricultural machinery and implements on the site until 1924, when the company moved to Ketley. At this time, the town's fire brigade also left their old premises in Walker Street for a new station in Foundry Road, while the Council Depot that once existed here also served as a Civil Defence Rescue Training Centre during the Cold War. However, the street had already become an object for the local town planners' ire by the late 1930s when plans were drawn up to demolish some of its houses as part of the Council's slum clearance programme. This process sped up dramatically by the 1960s and a decade later Foundry Road was wiped off the map altogether to make way for the new ring road around the town centre, bringing to an end over 700 years of history in the life of one of Wellington's oldest streets.