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. History Woodside came to fruition due to the New Towns Act of 1946, which saw Dawley New Town, now known as Telford New Town, named after the famous Scottish civil engineer, Thomas Telford being developed to cope mainly with the overspill from the West Midlands conurbation. The land that was chosen for Woodside was previously used for farming and mining purposes, namely Rough Park Farm and Leasowes Farm. Brick Kiln Leasowes Crawstone Pit still part exists today in the form of its spoil mound running along both Ironbridge Road and the William Reynolds School. It was here in 1864 that nine men (the youngest being just a child of 12 years) fell to a tragic death, when a rope lowered to haul the men out, at the end of a busy day, snapped and all lives were lost in the fall. Within the woodland which now covers the spoil mound, the brick pond can still be seen from which water was drawn from the mine. Situated in south Telford, Woodside was originally built as a council housing estate, being managed by both Telford Development Corporation and Dawley District Council. Modern housing was provided along with shopping and play areas as well as community facilities including a health centre, schools, public houses, a police station and a community centre. Other facilities were provided at the nearby district of Madeley,