Sharp militaria

 

A collector of loggerheads pieces is is best off looking at sales of militaria if s/he wants a quick purchase.  The Shropshire Yeomanry regiment didn't always feature the loggerheads in their identification but often enough. Yeomanry collar badges (see pic) are quire common in sales of militaria circles.
Their loggerheads tend to be sharp-eared variety.

Of course, you don't have to buy one to see one.  There are lots of Yeomanry badges at the Shropshire Soldiers Museum at Shrewsbury Castle.

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Cabbies' shelter

 
This quaint little structure, just inside the gates of Shrewsbury Castle, is in fact a former cabmen’s shelter/rank. It once stood in the town's Market Square, just a couple of hundred yards away – where it had provided a place out of the rain for cabbies as far back as horse-drawn times.

The roundel in the top window shows the arms of Shrewsbury & Atcham Borough Council, which existed from 1974 to 2009. As the shelter is much older than 1974, one wonders why this badge was installed...
Also... does anyone know exactly how old the shelter is?

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HMS Shropshire and Atcham

 

This plaque, now on display in Shrewsbury Castle Military Museum, was a gift from The Admiralty to Atcham Rural Council in 1943.  Atcham is a village in Shropshire not far from Shrewsbury.
The council was one of those to ‘adopt’ a ship during the Second World War: adoption meant a number of things, from knitting socks for the sailors to financial aid.  Curiously, it must have been very soon after this presentation (perhaps?) that HMS Shropshire was gifted to the Royal Australian Navy, as it was in late 1943.

Interestingly, this is another example of a single loggerhead; and another instance of the tongue being depicted in a 'disc', not lolling, shape. The shape - presumably - is a protruding tongue which is then folded over.  Is that right? Does anyone know the true interpretation?

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