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St Martins maps
Historic maps of St Martins and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all St Martins maps
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St Martins books
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Shropshire Living Memories
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Ludlow Photographic Memories
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Shropshire Photographic Memories
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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... [more]
Shared on 24 January 2009
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... [more]
Shared on 24 January 2009
Shropshire memories
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... [more]
Shared on 13 September 2008
I have family in Oswesty and my uncle used to have a fruit and veg round. I used to go with him and my aunty sometimes when I was young. I used to love staying in Oswestry, it's my favourite place. I still have lots of relations there now.
Shared on 15 September 2008
The 1901 census shows my grandmother Emma Mainwaring, then aged 14, working as a domestic servant at Kenwicks Park. Thinking that Kenwicks Park was the name of a large country house I started to search for it only to find that Kenwicks Park refers to a locality. Can anyone suggest where I can find the exact house where my grandmother worked?
Shared on 27 October 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... [more]
Shared on 15 June 2008
My maternal great grandparents lived in Llwyn near the church in Rhiwlas. They - Thomas and Elizabeth Jones - are buried in Llansilin Churchyard with their son Lloyd Jones who was, I believe, the last of the family to live there.
They had children called William, Annie Rose, Charles, Robert, Sam, David, Margaret Ann and Henry plus Lloyd the youngest... [more]
Shared on 14 August 2009
Hi, I was the landlord at the Cross Guns for 10 years from 1976 till 1986.
Shared on 16 June 2008
Extracts From St Martins & Shropshire books
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Shropshire Photographic Memories
Chirbury was the home of Lord Herbert, an Elizabethan philosopher, diplomat and keen historian. He collected a large library of chained books (the books were chained to their shelves so that they could not be taken away) which he bequeathed to the villagers. The books are now kept in the main library in Shrewsbury.
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Shropshire Photographic Memories
Chirbury was the home of Lord Herbert, an Elizabethan philosopher, diplomat and keen historian. He collected a large library of chained books (the books were chained to their shelves so that they could not be taken away) which he bequeathed to the villagers. The books are now kept in the main library in Shrewsbury.
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Shropshire Photographic Memories
Pronounced 'clibbery', Cleobury Mortimer is famous for the crooked spire of its church. The town also claims to be the birthplace of William Langland, a poet living at the same time as Chaucer, whose masterpiece is the work 'The Vision of Piers the Plowman'.
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