Does anyone know if this was a home guard loophole for protecting the bridge?
#shrewsbury
#shropshire
#shroppiesShropshireStuff
Owdo me owd butties, I’ve heard of dogs, osses and folks having strange experiences at Mitchell’s Fold would love to hear yours
#mitchellsfold
#shropshire
#folklore
#witchcraft
#hereBeGhosses
#ShroppiesShropshireStuff
Ironbridge flood 1/3/1923
Or has Dick the Keen ‘un left the taps on in the White Hart again?
#ironbridge
#shropshire
#shroppiesShropshireStuff
Fair maids of febiwerry (snowdrops)
Okay me owd butties seen as omens of jeth by some and a sign of hope by others,have you any folklore tales about them? Do you think it is good or bad luck to bring them indoors?
#snowdrops
#shropshire
#shroppiesShropshireStuff
On this day 2/2/ 1885 the reading room opened in Shrewsbury library
#shrewsbury
#shropshire
#shroppiesShropshireStuff
On this day 2/1/1739 poor owd Cadman the madmon plunged to his jeth
#shrewsbury
#shropshire
#shroppiesShropshireStuff
February 2nd Candlemas day
“Does your goose lay?
Does your maid stay?”
“At Candlemas day
A good goose should lay
But at St Chad ( 2nd March”
Both good and bad”
#candlemas
#shropshire
#shroppiesShropshireStuff
Thought I’d start the month off with a fair maid of febiwerry, although they dunna come out until tomorrow here in Shropshire
#shropshire
#snowdrops
#shroppiesShropshireStuff
On this day 1/2/1862 Much Wenlock Station opened
#muchwenlock
#shropshire
#shroppiesShropshireStuff
On this day 1/2/1821 the Cinderloo uprising started
#cinderloo
#shropshire
#shroppiesShropshireStuff
cinderloo.com
On this day 29/1//1656 or 1657
Francis ‘old’ Moore was born in Bridgnorth
#Bridgnorth
#shropshire
#shroppiesShropshireStuff
On this day 29/1/1865 the Reverend Donald Carr spent his ‘night in the snow’
#shropshire
#snow
#shroppiesShropshireStuff
On this day 29/1/1963 the George Hotel in Shrewsbury closed it’s doors for the final time.
#shrewsbury
#shropshire
#shroppiesShropshireStuff
On this day 29/1/1963 the George Hotel in Shrewsbury closed it’s doors for the final time.
#shrewsbury
#shropshire
#shroppiesShropshireStuff
In Shropshire a new born baby mun go up furst not down, if it was born upstairs standing on furniture was allowed
#shropshire
#folklorethursday
#shroppiesShropshireStuff
I struggle to remember what I had for breakfast (even though it’s Shreddies every day) but I know where I was on this day in 1998. Flicking Maltesers off of the balcony one last time😉
#shroppiesShropshireStuff
It ‘ould appear that owd Nick is in his chair
#shropshire
#folklore
#ShroppiesShropshireStuff
Still a bit o’the white stuff on the Callow, kip wam,gudnite me owd butties
#shroppiesShropshireStuff
The Maltings Shrewsbury
The furst iron framed building in the world and whum to this #ghostsign that’s bin there for over forty yars
#shroppiesShropshireStuff
Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Napoleon’s nephew was baptised at Mawley Hall on this day 5th January 1813 #shroppiesShropshireStuff
Wednesday Words
Everything comes to those who wait
#shropshire
#salop
#words
#dialect
#shroppiesShropshireStuff
Gud mornin me owd butties, have a truly sebunctious wikend (even if you have to wurk it)
#yockletonia
#shropshire
#sunrise
#shroppiesShropshireStuff
Wednesday Words
I may be a great owd cauf but in the hope that I inna a total castrel, here’s this wik’s wurds
#shropshire
#dialect
#words
#shroppiesShropshireStuff
Stunning whatever the weather
#shropshire
#shroppiesShropshireStuff
Gudnite me owd butties, it’s gonna be icey n dicey so take care and lookout for each other, play nicely n sleep tightly- shroppiemon
#shropshire
#snow
#bordercollie
#shroppiesshropshirestuff
“We still play ball mon”
#snow
#shropshire
#shroppiesshropshirestuff
Gudnite me owd butties, hopefully we’ll have nowt but a scittering but take care and stay safe, now play nicely and sleep tightly
#owdstanleydog
#snow
#shropshire
#shroppiesshropshirestuff
Shropshire has stile
#callow
#shropshire
#stile
#shroppiesshropshirestuff