Woodside, Telford
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Woodside is a residential area of Telford, Shropshire, England.
In 1963, Dawley New Town (soon to be known as Telford) was designated in the area surrounding towns and villages such as Ironbridge, Dawley and Wellington, to ease the housing problem in the West Midlands conurbation some 20 miles away. The intention was to bring jobs to the area as well as houses to accommodate the thousands of workers being attracted to the town.
For the less well-off inhabitants of the new town, there needed to be council housing available. The Woodside estate was among the council housing projects first planned in the development of Telford new town. It was developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and is among the largest housing estates in Shropshire.
In 2005, students from The Abraham Darby Specialist School for the Performing Arts (Now known as Haberdashers' Abraham Darby) performed a new piece of theatre called Starting Again written by a local writer, which told the history of the local area over the last 40 years.