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Ellesmere, Scotland Street c1955
Ellesmere, Ellesmere House c1960
Ellesmere, Scotland Street c1955
Historic maps of Ellesmere and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Ellesmere maps
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Did You Know? Shrewsbury - A Miscellany
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Ludlow Photographic Memories
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I have always known it as Ushers, although I remember it being run by a Mr. Fisher who has a teenage daughter who had a pony....I remember her being very kind to me when I was a little girl. I remember her singing a song about girls sitting in the back seat hugging and kissing with Fred . Very funny. Random thoughts...Just along the canal was the Dyke walk, it seemed so big as I was so little, and there was a footpath through it, it was a magical wood and My brother would always hide and I would feel so alone in that big wood...I remember meeting an old woman named Mrs. Calendar who had two golden retriever dogs, who lived at the end of the wood, she told us that the wood was haunted and you could hear the chains rattle on windy nights.. I don't think I ever went there again.
Shared on 24 January 2009
This the exact spot where I learned to swim, it was muddy, cold, and wonderful, it was also where I learned to use a canoe with the school, we actually had to turn it over...Yuk... My Mum would send us to Ushers shop on the canal a little way back, for bread..I can smell it now. Climbing up the steep hill home I would peal off bits of crust to eat, sit on the big stone that was halfway up the hill...I now live in Florida and swim daily in the Gulf of Mexico... in the canal you never had to be concerned for stingrays, and sharks though.
Shared on 24 January 2009
and died in 1883, Emma had a son, Thomas Leonard Smith, and he was brought up as one of the children and became a butler in North Wales and died in 1915, he left a widow and 2 daughters but never knew Emma was his mother. His only grandson was killed during the 2nd World War and I was the only granddaughter, but I have 4 children, 10 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild. I found a request for the children of John and Marianne Smith of Tedsmore Bank, they were Mary Anne, Emma, Louisa, Rebekah, William and Edward. Their father was a butcher.
Shared on 15 June 2008
Mrs Barrett, the Post Mistress at that time, gave me a 1947 farthing for luck when I joined the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in June 1952. She said she had given one to village lads in WW2 and most of them came back, so look after it.
I went to Suez and came back and it is still on my key ring.
Shared on 13 September 2008
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Ellesmere, inspired by Frith photos.
Today the Gatehouse has been totally restored; it is available for renting as a holiday home through a company called the Landmark Trust, which specialises in saving old buildings and restoring them for this purpose.
The Bell Inn with its ‘good stabling’ is obviously for visitors to the town (those who cannot afford to stay at the Feathers or the Angel), while the Wheatsheaf probably serves an even poorer local clientele. The carriage sitting on the left is made of wicker-work.
Much of St Mary’s church, behind the mill, was used as a private house after the Dissolution; the ivy-covered remains of part of it can be seen here, attached to the right of the church. It was finally restored as a church in the mid 1600s.
