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Showing posts with label shrewsbury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shrewsbury. Show all posts

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...

Loggerheads in brown & yellow

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  After mentioning the way the Scouts' Shropshire logo features laughing-style loggerheads (see previous post ), here are some more of t...

Taxing at St Nicholas

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These loggerheads appear over the doorway into the Saint Nicholas Cafe Bar in the Castle Gates area of Shrewsbury town. When I first noticed...

Golden loggerheads

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Following on from the last post , here's another piece by Edwin Cole . His descendant Garen Ewing passed on this photo to me - thank you...

Edwin Cole's glass

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  A very very good friend spotted this rather lovely piece of decorated glass on sale at an arts shop in Shrewsbury. Thank you to her! It’s ...

Dodo on box

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  The public relations company working to boost Shrewsbury, ‘Shrewsbury BID’, has been busy this summer commissioning artists to paint the t...
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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...

Visitors' loss

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  Oddly, now and again, you DON'T find loggerheads when you really would have expected them.  Shrewsbury Bus Station is a building that ...

Leaving his mark

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  One of the least noticed loggerheads-sets is this one, which is in the apex of The Old Bank Buildings in Shrewsbury's Barker Street. T...

Wide-mouthed loggerheads

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  This small plaque appears over the door on Wesley House in Shrewsbury's Fish Street. The building dates back to the 1400s; it's so...

Daubing on Butcher Row

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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...

Leopards. Definitely!

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  You may need to squint a bit - but in this picture you can see a leopard (with spots!) inside a pink-ish template of the shape of the coun...

Rolled out the barrel - and away

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This photo of the Loggerheads Pub in Shrewsbury centre was taken in 1999.  The barrel sign was rather well-known; as you can see, it shows t...

Student souvenirs

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 The University of Shrewsbury has only been in the town two years, but it has kept things traditional; it immediately adopted the loggerhea...

Missing from field hospital

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  The  C Detachment 202 (Midlands) base is just by the old Copthorne Barracks in Shrewsbury, and is used by the Army Reserve Forces. The fo...

Shrewsbury hopper

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  If you just look up, and carefully, you'll see plenty of loggerheads, even in the most unlikely places. This set is on the hopper of a...

Proud lion, with leopards

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  The proud lion of the Lion Hotel in Shrewsbury stands atop a loggerheads device, though in this instance, it has a chevron separating the ...