Shrewsbury, Shropshire

Runaway sheep

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As children my brother John and I attended St Mary's on Town Walls and after school we would make our way towards Barker Street to catch the bus to Springfield, we would spin around the revolving doors at the Hotel across from the Old Victorian Market Hall (I think it was called the George) and be... [more]

Hornimans tea

I used to live at No 52 on the left of the picture, in a flat on the 4th floor. I was only 7, I remember the first night while lying in bed I heard a screech of brakes and a dog yelping. The next morning my mum told me that a dog had got killed on the road. I can... [more]

Ken Dodd

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My mother used to work in the Raven, as a school girl at St Mary's on Town Walls I used to wait for her to finish work. I can remember the place as being very beautiful.

Once my mother came home with a signed photograph of Ken Dodd, she said he was... [more]

expensive christmas

My great grandfather Edward Harris was arrested outside this public house on Christmas Eve 1904 trying to rescue his stepson from the strong arm of the law. He was subsequently fined 50 shillings!

Fish and Chips

My nan used to live in Darwin Street, just up from this picture. I always used to stay at her house on school holidays, and she used to send me down into Frankwell to buy fish and chips and mushy peas, from one of the houses left of the road which was converted to a chip shop. There used to be... [more]

Lion Hotel

My granny got a job as a waitress at the Lion Hotel so that she could be near her young man to whom she had just got engaged in 1927. I doubt if it has changed much since that time.

Renewing the farmers' overdrafts at the bank!

I spent a couple of weeks as a relief manager during the 1980 summer holidays for branches of Williams & Glyn's Bank and have happy memories of my time in Shrewsbury. The bank accommodated me at the Lion Hotel where the old coaching inn ambience was really lovely.

However the word got round the farming community that the... [more]

Down the Severn Photographic Memories

The steep Wyle Cop links the English Bridge with the High Street. In this splendid picture we can see a number of half-timbered buildings, including Wyle Cop Store, Dale & Sons, and the Nag's Head. It was in a half-timbered house near the top of the street in August 1485 that Henry Tudor spent the night before riding on to... [more]

Shropshire Photographic Memories

The Unicorn Hotel has long disappeared, but the timber building with the gable ends is still here - it is now a wine merchants, and parts of the shop have hardly changed with time. In fact the interior was used as a set for Ebeneezer Scrooge's office during the recent filming of Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'.

Shropshire Photographic Memories

So called because a moneyer is reputed to have stayed here for a time in the 14th century, this is really part of a medieval merchant's house. Today, parts of the old building (the arched doorway for example) can still be seen incorporated into the interior decor of a shop on Pride Hill.