Owdo me owd butties, well the Flower Show has bin and gone agen, so as summer is over and the nights are drawing in I thought you might like to read a few more sayings that I have gleaned frum… Read More »OH I SAY! SOME SHROPSHIRE SAYINGS PART SEVEN
Owdo me owd butties, thank’ee for joinin’ me for more of me owd chunnerin’s you’re gluttons for punishment. Radio Shropshire’s Johnty Odonty asked me about this which reminded me that I anna shared it on here, so blame him if… Read More »AFRICAN PRINCE
62-63 MARDOL SHREWSBURY Owdo me owd butties have you ever sin a dragon in Shropshire? I know that dragons are frum days long gone but today i wanna chunner on about one that is even younger than me. I’m sure… Read More »HERE BE DRAGONS
Owdo me owd butties, thank’ee for once again poppin’ to have a brevit at me owd chunnerins, dunna werrit this’un is only a short un. (stop that cheerin’) I’m sure we have all sin the owd iron bridge at Ironbridge… Read More »The Iron Bridge – Secret Faces
Owdo me owd butties, have you ever heard of the Broseley Jitties? no it inna an affliction but a higgeldy-piggeldy maze like network of narrow paths that criss-cross Broseley Wood. In the late 16th century James Clifford, the Lord of… Read More »JITTY DITTY
Owdo me owd butties, thank’ee most kindly for poppin’ in, I am sure many of us have traipsed over HaughMONd Hill at least once but did you know that there used to be an owd cottage atop of it? Well… Read More »HAUGHMOND’S NANCY SPRAGG
Owdo me owd butties thank’ee for joining me for some more of me chunnerin’s. As I’m sure you probably know, here in Shropshire if you have the same dream it will come true, keep reading (it wonna hurt yer) to… Read More »BETTY FOX HAD A DREAM COME TRUE
Owdo me owd butties, we dunna get to see many lions in Shropshire, mebbe owd Scriven had summat to do with that… Once upon a time,and a long long time ago, possibly around 1320 (that’s the year not the time),… Read More »OWD (OULD) SCRIVEN
Owdo me owd butties thank’ee for joining me for some more of me chunnerin’s, today it’s all about a little stone in the middle of nowhere. In January 1691 a pedlar left Newcastle (our Newcastle in Shropshire) in plenty of… Read More »CANTLIN STONE aka Pedlar’s Stone
Rowley’s House has stood proudly on this spot since the late 1500s and has had a few strange goings on over the years. When Rowley’s was our museum it was whum to the Corbet Bed, which is on loan frum… Read More »Haunted Shrewsbury DAY SEVENTEEN – Rowley’s House