Shrewsbury's Welsh newspaper

 
The ‘Welsh Bridge Collectibles’ shop in Shrewsbury is a joy for any antiquarian.  Over three floors of a very old building, it has anything a collector of curios might want, from old books (of course) to toys of the past to figurines.  The best thing is that it’s properly arranged – no rooting about in disorderly & dusty junk!

In the old newspapers section, I found this Salopian Journal from 1837.  Like a number of Shrewsbury-based newspapers of the time, it carries the loggerheads on its masthead.  What’s very interesting is the newspaper’s description of itself – as the 'Courier Of Wales' (see pic right).  What we modern Salopians forget is that, until the middle of the nineteenth century, Shrewsbury’s area of interest outside the town was not the English West Midlands, but the North Wales region: thus, at this time, the town still had a very Welsh feeling.

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