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- 8 photos on Shrewsbury appear in 4 Frith books - View photos of Shrewsbury
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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 remember wanting to go back to my old house, but I was very cautious of that main road, especially after having moved from a quiet country lane, but as I grew up, I was allowed to cross that road to go to the little grocer's shop, where I couldn't wait to buy the Hornimans tea for another free card inside ...read more here
Contributed by maxine pickett
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!
Contributed by mike harris
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 another chip shop on the other side of the road, but I wasn't allowed to cross the road. I always used to spend the change on 1d sweets, in Everyman's, the shop which seemed to stay open for ever, or just around the bend in the photo, to the paper shop to buy a comic, you used to have to ...read more here
Contributed by maxine pickett
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 manager was away so several farmers took their chance to come and see me instead to renew their annual overdrafts facilities! They didn't do anything quite so crude as to bribe me but their hospitality was magnificent! I loved the place and the town but the farmers kept me so busy I hardly had enough time for sightseeing. ...read more here
Contributed by John Howard Norfolk
Extracts From Shrewsbury & Shropshire books
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 Bosworth to do battle and win the Crown.
An extract from from"Down the Severn Photographic Memories".
Shrewsbury School sits
on a magnificent site
overlooking the entire
town of Shrewsbury;
the school building was
originally built in the
18th century to house
orphans, who were then
trained to work in the
cotton mills. There were
numerous points along
the river where one could
once cross by ferry. None
exist today, although the
post for this ferry, seen
in the foreground, does
still survive.
An extract from from"50 Classics - Ferries".
The Severn at Shrewsbury is the haunt of pleasure craft. Here the ferryman is carrying guests from the Boat House Inn across the river.
An extract from from"Canals and Waterways".
The Boat House Inn ferry offered a more sedate way of crossing the Severn than by the nearby Kingsland Bridge.
An extract from from"Down the Severn Photographic Memories".
Before the Great War, rooms at the Raven were the most expensive in Shrewsbury, starting from 4s 6d; yet for some reason now lost to us, dinner here (at 2s 6d) was the cheapest among the hotels (3s 6d minimum at the George). Anyway, the Raven is not remembered for its culinary offerings, but as the place where Farquhar wrote his play ‘The Recruiting Officer’.
An extract from from"Down the Severn Photographic Memories".