Happy Xmas loggerheads!

Yes, you can't even keep the loggerheads out of Christmas. Any self-respecting Shrewsbury Town Football Club fans would have this bauble front & centre on their Christmas trees.

Happy Christmas-time!

Wellington's market cat

 The indoor-outdoor market in Wellington (near Telford) is open for Christmas thank goodness.

The cheerful leopard in its logo is interesting though: is it a loggerhead missing its two mates... or not?  What's its story?

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Corporation leopards

 

We found this version of the loggerheads on the cover of 'Shrewsbury Illustrated' a Shrewsbury Corporation booklet dated 1933.  This rather arty version was the standard logo for the corporation at the time.

(Though, the three leopards all seem to be disturbed by something they can see to the left of them...)

The booklet is a guide to the town, and also has a fascinating article about the famous Morris's Emporium in the centre of town, which comprised a grocer's & tea-shop & gents' smoking-room & ballroom (they didn't do half-measures in those days!)

We found the publication in Candle Lane Books, which is an old-fashioned second-hand bookshop - and an absolute trap for anyone interested in bibliophile researching.  Three hours could happily go by as you browse - and you'd never know...

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Rolled out the barrel - and away

This photo of the Loggerheads Pub in Shrewsbury centre was taken in 1999.  The barrel sign was rather well-known; as you can see, it shows the loggerheads on it, painted in gold.

However, sometime over the last twenty years, it was taken down and no one seems to know where it is now - if it exists any longer at all.

Does anyone know anything about it - or what happened to it?  The present owners are unaware of its history.
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