Ted Picken and Bucknell
A blog post written by Anthony Price, volunteer researching photographs at Shropshire Archives. Tony was featured when Midlands Today visited Shropshire Archives (6 Sep 2018) and talked about the Picken photographs. He’ll be researching and writing more about this fascinating photographer in the future and at the same time we will be digitising the photographs. […]
Stepping into the future
This blog was written by Heather Mager, a student who worked with our photographs for her A level photography project, merging old with new… For my A level photography coursework, I picked the given title ‘Changing Landscapes’ out of the options available. I wanted to look into how my home town of Shrewsbury has changed […]
Wilfred Owen centenary
Following a successful launch at Shrewsbury Abbey on Saturday 4th August, the programme of events commemorating the centenary of Wilfred Owen’s death in 1918 is well and truly underway. The Abbey event saw almost 140 guests listen to speeches by the Mayor of Shrewsbury, Cllr Peter Nutting; the Mayor of Ors (the town in France […]
Finding Old Poor Law records
Parish collections Most of our Old Poor Law documents can be found in the parish collections under ‘L’. For example, ‘P68/L’ is the reference for Poor Law administration for Claverley. Records found within the parish collections may include: Overseers’ accounts (if you can’t find these under ‘L’ it is worth looking to see if they […]
Escaped hot air balloon
In August 1906 at Shrewsbury Floral Show, held in the Quarry, a Mr Spencer was offering a ‘bird’s eye view’ of Shrewsbury from his tethered hot air balloon, for which he was charging 50 shillings (£2.50). On a Wednesday evening the tether and retaining rope broke. The balloon with its occupants, including Mr Spencer, flew […]
Sunday school adventure
An Article in the Wellington Journal dated 8th August 1885, regarding a Sunday school ’Treat’ Six hundred (!) children and visitors from the Hadley Wesleyan Sunday School were taken on a Sunday School treat, from Hadley to Uffington and return. The children assembled at the national school girls’ playground. The younger children were put in […]
A huge thank you to our volunteers
Shropshire Archives has added over 19,000 records to our online catalogue following a mammoth effort by volunteers. We’d like to thank over 30 volunteers who have worked tirelessly on the project since 2013. The records, which are grouped together under the reference number 6000 are a collection of charters, deeds, surveys, manorial records, and miscellaneous […]
Poor Relief Under the Old and New Laws
Many people don’t realise they have a pauper ancestor until they find them in a workhouse on the census or baptism or burial record. This week I’m going to be looking at how workhouses operated in relation to out-relief in the cross-over years with the Old and New Poor Laws. The Evolution of the Workhouse […]
First World War Day, 20 Oct 2018
First World War Showcase Day When: 20 October 2018 Time: 10am-4pm Where: Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury More details coming soon. For more events commemorating World War One, visit the Shropshire Remembers website
VCH lecture, 27 Oct 2018
Horses and the aristocratic lifestyle in early modern England The Victoria County History (VCH) Shropshire has invited historian, Professor Peter Edwards, to give its third annual lecture. Professor Edwards will show how the horse revolutionised the way rural society worked, played and operated in the period between c.1500 and c.1750. Professor Edwards’ lecture will demonstrate […]