Advantages: Historical town, loads of little shops, cafes, bars, pubs, restaurants Disadvantages: Hills, cobbles - accessibity problems
Shrewsbury, county town of Shropshire and 10 miles from the Mid-Wales border, hits the headlines every once and awhile - usually when we're upto our eyeballs in flood water! Not surprising really when you consider its situation, slap bang in the middle of a loop in the River Severn. Shrewsbury has been my home for over 15 years now and I'd like to show you that there's more to Shrewsbury than its river. I hope that you will agree with me that it is a very special place.
Shrewsbury is a genuine historic market town with markets having been held here for centuries. The heart of the town, The Square, has been a market place since the 1300s. It was also the site of the town's ducking stool and pond.
Some associate Shrewsbury with Dickens. The famous Christmas Carol with George C Scott was filmed here. You can still visit Scrooge ...
Advantages: Great shops, great food, great atmosphere, a great place to come! Disadvantages: none the town is fantastic!
Shrewsbury, the place i have called home for all of my life, the county town of Shropshire...i suppose it deserves a review doesnt it!
At a glance I would think, Castle, Medieval Town, Museums and The Birthplace of Darwin, a little bit too historic for me! However it is also home to loadsa other great stuff!
Rowleys House is my favourite museum in the town. It's great! They even have a dressing up box! Its full of info on the town and the history of it. You can look in the room where Henry Tudor stayed and also at lots of archaic clothing. It has a fantastic souvenir shop which i would definately recommend a visit to.
The best bit of Rowley's House to me would have to be the board about the origins of the town's name. The name Shrewsbury is the centre of an ongoing debate amongst the residents here. Half of us pronounce it Shro ...
Advantages: Interesting look at modern Shrewsbury Disadvantages: None
This is Shrewsbury is one of the best modern photographic records of an English county town that I have seen in a very long time indeed. It is written by Al Smith, Mike Ashton and Danny Beath and edited by Fay Easton and Phil Northwood, published by the Shrewsbury Town Centre Management Partnership. If only all town centre management partnerships were as pro-active and as go ahead as Shrewsbury's!
For me, the book captures all the many different, somewhat mercurial moods and nuances that make up the medieval and paradoxically at the same time, modern town of Shrewsbury.
There's a young man enjoying a quiet pint in a smokey pub.
And facing the ethereal beauty of the Kingsland Bridge over the River Severn early one morning.
There are photographs which reflect the proud military history of Shrewsbury, yet these are juxtaposed ...
