Loggerheads - MYSTERIES !

 
Hello and welcome.

This photo-blog is all about the 'loggerheads' of Shrewsbury & Shropshire (aka Salop or even Salopia).  

Check out our photo-blog page for the latest sightings, which are posted three times a month.

But when something is 600 years old (as loggerheads are), there are bound to be queries and mysteries.  Below we list some of them, and ask - are you able to help answer them?  

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PUZZLES
Can you help us solve them?  Click on the relevant page link from the list below and then put in your thoughts in the page's Comments field, or email us direct.

Shropshire loggerheads and the Winkeys - what’s the connection?
Two shields at Prince’s Rupert’s - but whose arms are they? 
Mister Shrewsbury, William Clement - are these his arms?
Mock Tudor at 1A Castle Gates - why was it built?
Why is a 1970s roundel on a 19th century kiosk?
Town scrolling on sign - a misprint? 
Wellington's cat: what's its story?
Stonework - from the old Guildhall?: or not?
Who made these daubings?: in Butcher Row
Bishop Brown: why loggerheads for him?
The lion rampant: is it significant to Shrewsbury?
Why are there loggerheads in Oswestry?: (officially too!)
Seen the barrel?: it's missing!
Morville grotesques: what's their story?
High in stained-glass: why are these loggerheads here?

Shropshire Blue: county's arms are blue & white not blue & gold... but why?
Shrewsbury Arms: a loggerhead plus 2 croziers?   - - -   SOLVED!
West Mercia Police: why only one loggerhead for them?
Shrewsbury Civic Society:  why no loggerheads for them?

The Dresser: who put the loggerheads in this shop? 
Copthorne Barracks: missing loggerheads...
Hopper-maker: which firm made this?
Proud Lion: got a date for this lion?
Grope Lane:  why just the double?        - - -   SOLVED!

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