How Shropshire are you? Okay me owd butties, I get fed up with spam data collecting questions on social media so just for fun I’ve created a Shropshire one. Award yourself one Shropshire butterbun for each one you have done… Read More »How Shropshire are you?
Owdo me owd butties, I thought you might like to read a few more sayings that I have gleaned frum Shropshire books and Shropshire folk. They inna all unique to Shropshire but they have all bin used here, now pay… Read More »OH I SAY… SHROPSHIRE SAYINGS PART 2
Owdo me owd butties, thank’ee most kindly for poppin in for a brevit and if you are one of our regular readers, that’s quite probably Shroppieoomon and owd Stanleydog, you might remember last wik’s mermaid, well here’s another ‘un. Mytton… Read More »MORE MERMAIDS MON?
Owdo me owd butties, I thought that you might care for some information on witches. “Over thick,over thin till we come to Hedgemore’s ind” The above rhyme is recited by all the witches at the start of each sabbat (meeting),… Read More »WITCH BITS
Well me owd butties, if any of you are still with us, we have reached our final destination, and where better to complete a full house than the Bingo Hall? It was built as a theatre and cinema in 1934… Read More »Haunted Shrewsbury DAY THIRTY ONE – the Bingo Hall
Owdo me owd butties, thank’ee most kindly for poppin’ in for a brevit. Now what on earth has Shropshire, the largest landlocked county in the country got to do with mermaids? I hear you ask, well draw up a chair… Read More »MERMAIDS MON?
Frum 1552 until they relocated out of town in 1882 this was whum to Shrewsbury School. A “grey lady” wanders amongst the bookcases and staff have often felt her presence, although we have no way of knowing for certain it… Read More »Haunted Shrewsbury DAY THIRTY – the Library
This building was formerly whum to a branch of Peter Dominic wine merchants. A visitor started to make himself known in the winter of 1972/3. Staff became frightened when distant footsteps could be heard above them yet nothing untoward was… Read More »Haunted Shrewsbury DAY TWENTY NINE – 15 Castle Street
When the Old Gaol was opposite, this building was the police house. At the end o’the 1800s a policemon, who was possibly racked with guilt after an innocent mon that he’d arrested was executed, went down into the basement and… Read More »Haunted Shrewsbury DAY TWENTY EIGHT – Old Police House
Although now apartments the owd gaol was here frum 1705 until the new prison on Howard Street was finished in 1793. A chapel for the Primitive Methodists was erected here in 1826 and was rebuilt in 1863. At one time… Read More »Haunted Shrewsbury DAY TWENTY SEVEN – Old Gaol, Castle Court