A new digital installation has opened in at Qube Gallery, Oswestry. Created by Justin Cliffe and Peter Jones, it celebrates the lives of Sir Robert Jones and Dame Agnes Hunt and their remarkable work in orthopaedics and rehabilitation. The intallation will run until the 9th November and will be available to tour next year. If […]
The sun shone for the opening of the Trench Experience at Park Hall, Oswestry. The impressive network of trenches was formally opened by Lt Col Graham Shannon, Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment. It is a great achievement and demonstrates the astonishing effort which went into digging the thousands of miles […]
Suspicions of German spies abounded from the moment war was declared and many innocent people fell victim to accusations of being German sympathizers. In October 1914, Miss Lillian Tart, the headteacher at the National School in Dudleston, near Ellesmere was called to account. PC Pilsbury went to investigate gossip circulating in the village that she […]
Belgian families fleeing the German invasion of their country began arriving in Britain very early in the war. Communities around Shropshire met to make plans to help these refugees. On 11th September 1914 at a meeting of the Relief Fund in Much Wenlock, the gentry from Wenlock Abbey offered one of their houses in the […]
At the outbreak of war the first soldiers to be mobilised were members of the Regulars – full time soldiers, and Special Reserve and Territorial Battalions made up of part time soldiers. This photograph shows D Company, 4th Battalion, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry which consisted of Territorials from the Ironbridge area. These men were mobilised on […]
Local people were given a warm welcome at Pontesbury Public Hall by the History Makers team for an ‘Antiques Roadshow’ style event. They brought with them all sort of things relating to the First World War – medals, photographs, trench crafts, postcards, sheet music even two WWI helmets and an ancient shell case! A steady […]
‘Remembrance Field’ is a large scale photographic art installation presented in St Mary the Virgin Church, Shrewsbury. It was created by artist Carl Jaycock who has spent the last two years researching and developing the project. “I was initially inspired by the stories of some of the soldiers’ acts of bravery from WW1, I found […]
Church Stretton Area local History Group are holding a drop-in session at Church Stretton Library on Saturday 1st August. What did your grandparents tell you about the First World War? The group are looking to preserve and record your stories. They are interested in both military and domestic accounts and if you have any documents and photographs, […]
After touring as far afield as Lancashire and Norfolk, Francesca Millican Slater makes a welcome return to Shropshire. My Dearest Girls: The Letters Book combines character, live music and a touch of cabaret to reveal the lives of a group of friends from Shropshire. Against a background of war the women tell each other their stories, […]
Construction of the trenches at Park Hall near Oswestry continues apace. Numbers of volunteers were boosted by the addition of 11 members of the Royal Irish. The trenches are being boarded and sandbagged and the building of underground rooms is well underway. Mark Hignett, the project co-ordinator, said he was delighted with the progress. The […]
