Qube exhibition FRACTURE: WW1 to 21st Century Healing cancelled until September 2015. We regret to inform you that FRACTURE: WW1 to 21st Century Healing exhibition and opening event has to be postponed due to a serious and unavoidable technical fault in the final stages of production. Qube were really excited to be able to bring […]
The HISTORY MAKERS project focuses on interviewing people about members of their family who have fought or have had experiences in the First World War. We have been asking them to share with us any memorabilia like photos, documents, medals even the souvenir tins given to soldiers at Christmas 1914. We are going to make […]
As part of the Longden, Ford, Rea Valley WW1 Digital Archive Project which was launched at Mary Webb School in Pontesbury on 25th June 2014, students from the school visited the Shropshire Archives in Shrewsbury. During the visit, students were given a tour and a talk by Mrs Liz Young, who had sorted out a […]
There are something over 100,000 war memorials in this country and around 300 memorials are dedicated to Post Office staff. One of the 75,000 post office employees who served in the First World War was my grandfather, Thomas Pybus, a telegraphist. He regaled me in the 1940s with exotic tales of Black Mamba snakes from […]
Students from Shrewsbury Sixth Form College have been reflecting on their WWI project. They welcomed students and staff from Le Cateau in France, and Walldorf in Germany, to a week-long series of events and activities to commemorate the First World War. The very busy programme included, the Remembrance Day Service at St Chad’s, a visit […]
St Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury has created a special memorial for the 113 men listed on Shropshire War Memorials for whom no information can be found. These names cannot be linked for certain with the service records of any individual soldier. In the week of Wednesday 10th December there were no anniversaries of Shropshire deaths so […]
A letter within the collections at the Shropshire Regimental Museum holds testament to the remarkable truce which took place between opposing sides on Christmas Day, 1914. At the time it was officially denied but letters like these and eye witness accounts of men who were there prove otherwise. This letter was written on 28th […]
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery hosts this exhibition of artwork entitled “Wilfred Owen and Other War Poets” by a group of the town’s Sixth Form College students, working with artist Carl Jaycock and students from colleges in Le Cateau in France and Walldorf in Germany. Last month the students took part together in a week-long […]
Earlier this year, Shrewsbury Children’s Bookfest delivered to 18 primary schools across Shropshire hundreds of copies of The Best Christmas Present in the World, a short story by the former children’s laureate, Michael Morpurgo. It describes how in December 1914 the British and German forces famously laid down their arms to play a game of […]
It was the German invasion of Belgium which eventually drew Britain into the war. Many civilians were killed and thousands were displaced. The plight of Belgian refugees was widely reported in the press and there was great sympathy for the Belgian people. Shropshire raised funds to support and find accommodation for Belgian refugees. This photograph […]
