Blogs from Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

I don't mind a trip to Shrewsbury now and again . It feels that there is always something to do and something new to see . I know eventually I will run out of small alleyways to explore , the museum will have nothing new to see but at the moment I still have a list of things to do . Places to see and things to tick of that list that makes up the county town of Shrewsbury . Today was going to be no different . I was not sure how long I would have to waste . Today was just a small service for the car . A biennual change of brake fluid which should take only an hour or so . The garage would do a car Health check and send me ... read more

With the coffee and croissant refreshing me I was ready for the next part of my morning . It was only 10.15 and I knew that the major service would take until lunchtime . I needed to waste another hour at least before I could find a cafe for my early lunch with yet another double espresso on the cards . If I had not been called up by then to tell me the car was ready I had already earmarked a walk back up to Castle Street and beyond to the Castle with its Regimental Museum of the Shropshire Light Infantry . I was looking forward to that as my great grandfather had apparently served in that regiment . Apart from a line in his obituary I had no knowledge of his service and hoped ... read more

After our well earned coffee and toast Sion and I set off in search of the Town Walls . Wouldnt it be nice to walk around a set of walls just like Chester ? Well sadly Shrewsburys walls had long gone . Gateways had been removed , all the towers bar one taken down and the stone used elsewhere and the walls had disappeared apart from an odd spot here and there . We found the tower known as the Town Wall Tower just up the road from the Girls school . The girls were coming out of the doors of an interesting building . They looked a bit scruffy in their uniforms Mini skirts that were so short they were just like belts . I thought about mini skirts in the 60's and we wore ... read more

Well you think it would be easy wouldnt it ? Plan a trip out for a mammoth , a sheep , two humans and Alfie Dog . It had been a while since the boys had met up and that visit had involved knives and all things metal . Woolly had made a suggestion . Denbigh Castle . Sion thought it a good idea as he had not been there for some while and was due another visit . "It was left to the human in the household to sort out a date , a time and some tickets . Surely with two humans to sort it out it shouldn't go wrong " Well it did go Ok at the start . We all agreed a day when both Jo and I were not working . ... read more

Well, today we went to see the world famous Iron Bridge near Telford in Shropshire. We knew that we would not be able to see much because Bernie stumbled across this information on the English Heritage website a couple of nights ago: Please note that we’re carrying out vital conservation work on the bridge. This means we’ve had to put much of it under cover. But we’ve built a walkway alongside the bridge to give you an opportunity to see the work as it happens and enjoy a rare perspective of this landmark monument. The walkway is free to access and open from 10am-4pm (last entry 3.30pm). The website also advised that entry to the bridge is free from April to September 2018. I suppose it wouldn’t be very good public relations to charge people to ... read more