The Flare Journal
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Victorian Shrewsbury is defined by the railway. The station opened in 1848 to an imitation Tudor design by Penson of Oswestry, and was extended in 1899-1903; beside it...
Thomas Farnolls Pritchard (born Shrewsbury 1723, died 23 December 1777) was a joiner who became an architect and interior designer. He proposed an iron bridge over the Severn...
Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings (also called Ditherington Flax Mill) was built in 1796-97 to a design by Charles Bage and is described as the first iron-framed building in the...
Georgian Shrewsbury is brick, symmetrical and sashed, and it sits beside the town's Tudor timber frames. The landmarks to know are 6 Belmont (1701), 2 The Square (1730),...
Charles Darwin was born on 12 February 1809 at The Mount, a Georgian brick house in Shrewsbury built by his father, the doctor Robert Darwin. He was baptised...
Shrewsbury has a notable group of timber-framed town buildings from the 15th and 16th centuries, in a town enriched by the Welsh cloth trade. The key buildings are...
St Chad’s is Shrewsbury’s famous round church, built in 1790–92 by George Steuart after the old church’s tower collapsed in 1788. St Mary’s is the medieval church near...
Shrewsbury Abbey was founded as a Benedictine monastery by Roger de Montgomery in the 1080s and stands just outside the loop of the Severn that shelters the old...
Victorian Shrewsbury is defined by the railway. The station opened in 1848 to an imitation Tudor design by Penson of Oswestry, and was extended in 1899-1903; beside it...
Thomas Farnolls Pritchard (born Shrewsbury 1723, died 23 December 1777) was a joiner who became an architect and interior designer. He proposed an iron bridge over the Severn...
Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings (also called Ditherington Flax Mill) was built in 1796-97 to a design by Charles Bage and is described as the first iron-framed building in the...
Georgian Shrewsbury is brick, symmetrical and sashed, and it sits beside the town's Tudor timber frames. The landmarks to know are 6 Belmont (1701), 2 The Square (1730),...
Charles Darwin was born on 12 February 1809 at The Mount, a Georgian brick house in Shrewsbury built by his father, the doctor Robert Darwin. He was baptised...
Shrewsbury has a notable group of timber-framed town buildings from the 15th and 16th centuries, in a town enriched by the Welsh cloth trade. The key buildings are...
St Chad’s is Shrewsbury’s famous round church, built in 1790–92 by George Steuart after the old church’s tower collapsed in 1788. St Mary’s is the medieval church near...
Shrewsbury Abbey was founded as a Benedictine monastery by Roger de Montgomery in the 1080s and stands just outside the loop of the Severn that shelters the old...
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