Butcher Row is one of Shrewsbury's iconic medieval streets and is full of listed buildings - but it looks like someone once thought it a good idea to paint daubs on some of these venerable door frames.
You have to look for them, but when you find them, you'll see that one of the daubs is a set of loggerheads. The work is amateurish and includes an unusual heraldic lion.
The other daub that interests us is a shield of arms (see below right) - which we don't recognise.
So, the mysteries are: who painted the loggerheads, and when, and why? And whose arms are those on the second image?
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