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Showing posts with label mystery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mystery. Show all posts

Dod's fleur-de-lys arms

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  As a mark of respect to those local philanthropists who sustained and maintained hospitals before the days of the NHS, their coats of arms...

Heraldry at St Julian's

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  St Julian’s Church, at the top of Wyle Cop in Shrewsbury, has quite a few loggerheads - more than any other town church.  The trouble is: ...
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Where are the souvenirs?

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  If you're looking for Xmas stocking fillers, you may be wondering where all the Shrewsbury loggerheads souvenirs are. When one sees th...

Loggerheads in red

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  Here's another mystery. In the east window of St George's Church at Pontesbury (some seven miles from Shrewsbury) is this set of l...

Big banner at Henry Tudor House

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  This is a detail taken from a fascinating illustration in Thomas Auden's 1905 Book Of Shrewsbury.  It shows one of the town's most...

Missing Angel puzzle

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  Here’s a real puzzle.  This image appears on the internet now and again, and is described ‘Painting at St Julian’s Church Shrewsbury, 164...

Stratford mash-up

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The large stock room of the WH Smith store in Shrewsbury’s Pride Hill is a treasure trove for stained-glass enthusiasts. (Sadly it’s off-lim...

It's Loggerheads Day!

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  Today (May 2nd) is Loggerheads Day… at least, so far as Shrewsbury Town Football Club supporters are concerned.  It was on this day in 201...

Found in Huw's garden

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  Though the Romaldesham carvings would seem to be the oldest set of Shrewsbury loggerheads in existence (outside of documents and seals),...

The Leopard tomb

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  This post is a bit of a long-shot, but if anyone has any more information, I'd be glad of it. This is the Leopard tomb at Haughmond Ab...

'Hereford loggerheads' in south Shropshire

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The East Window at Church Stretton St Laurence Church carries a number of heraldic panels, including these in this photo.  The arms on the l...

University heads

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  You feel as these three could really bite if they wanted to; their whiskers are sharp enough too! You’ll find them overhead as you mount t...

London loggerheads

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  This piece of stained glass, made by the famous firm of CE Kempe in 1920, clearly shows a loggerheads (on the left). They are even in the ...

Prince Rupert's glass

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  Some help please!  Of what organisation or family are these arms featuring loggerheads? You’ll find these two windows in Church Street in ...

William Clement - 'Mister Shrewsbury'

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The monument to William James Clement, the radical Shrewsbury politician, show three shields of arms on it – those of the borough of Shrewsb...

Civic pride loggerheads

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  When one first sees the 1A Castle Gates building in Shrewsbury, it looks yet another great example of the town's ‘black & white’ T...

A latter-day mason's mark?

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The puzzle in this photo is: when were these loggerheads put up?    This is the early nineteenth-century building, in Dogpole in central Shr...
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Anonymous planter

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  You'll see a number of lead planters/troughs around Shrewsbury, some of which go back 250 years (see Shrewsbury Library planter for e...

Antique road sign - with odd yellows

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It seems rather bizarre to realise that this shiny road sign in Shrewsbury is already an antique.  Like thousands of others in the area, it ...

Cabbies' shelter

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  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 ...