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File: Railwaymans_Arms_20150816.jpg | The pub sign looking south
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===Hanbury Cottage===
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===Lighting===
Current lighting installed on the site is 21st century, using period new GWR no 2 lampposts with associated luminaires and half-harps, plus corner brackets to match the original gas fittings. This was undertaken by suitably qualified volunteers with £60,000 raised by Bridgnorth Station Fund, and was mainly complete by 2021.<ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/blmar21 Branch Lines March 2021]</ref>.
It replaced reinforced concrete lighting, manufactured in Taunton by BR in the 1950s, evident in the image 1) from the Sellick collection in the below gallery. That lighting had begun to disintegrate and had become unsafe.
=== Pan Pudding Hill ===
Pan Pudding Hill, or sometimes Panpudding Hill or Pampudding Hill<ref>[https://www.bridgnorthtowncouncil.gov.uk/venues-bookings/castle-grounds-and-other-open-spaces/ Pampudding Hill on www.bridgnorthtowncouncil.gov.uk]</ref>, is a scheduled ancient monument which overlooks Bridgnorth station.<ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1013493 Pan Pudding Hill on the Historic England Scheduled Monument list]</ref> The man-made hill was built in 1102, on the orders of King Henry I, as a siege earthwork to attack and capture Bridgnorth Castle. The distance from the hill to the castle, nearly 300 yards, is a testament to the power of mediaeval medieval siege catapults.
Pan Pudding Hill was used to attack Bridgnorth Castle on other occasions, and finally in 1646 by Cromwell’s Parliamentarians during the English Civil War. After the last attack Bridgnorth Castle was blown up, leaving only the remains of the keep which can be seen in the castle grounds in High Town.<ref>[http://www.shropshirehistory.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/theme:20061123173140 shropshirehistory.org.uk] Retrieved 26 May 2015</ref>
