During the Victorian period, Foundry Road was an important centre for the engineering industries that helped to contribute to Wellington’s growing economic prosperity. Half way along the street, on its north side, lay the Wrekin Foundry, which was situated in the area behind what is now the Library and Larkin Way. The business appears to have had a number of owners in the Victorian era, including William Mansell, who in 1861 employed 7 men and 4 boys in the manufacturing of brass and iron products. Another large iron foundry stood directly opposite The Wrekin site and became known as the ‘Panification Works’ in the 1890s, when bread ovens were produced there. Richard and Thomas Haynes (later Haynes and Bromley), Agricultural Engineers, were also based in Foundry Road but relocated to Bridge Road in the 1880s, which became the centre of large-scale Industry in Wellington by the end of the Nineteenth Century, thanks to its location next to the railway. Incidentally, Haynes and Bromley eventually became John Bromley and Son, who by 1970 were reputedly the oldest agricultural dealers in Shropshire.