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Magazine cover: May 1958
50 years ago
Elizabeth Pearson, in a piece entitled ‘How Children Amused Themselves Before Television’ was bemoaning the fact that, where once the difficulty was in getting children in for bed at a reasonable hour, they now need much persuasion to take sufficient exercise. Some things never change!
40 years ago
“Could Shropshire change so greatly?” asked Jennifer Anne, chillingly prescient. “Who knows but the workers in Dawley New Town will one day want a motorway along Wenlock Edge to commute to their homes on Clee Hill? There could be cable cars scaling the Stiperstones – and the Shropshire Meres would make a grand site for a supermarket.”
30 years ago
Memories of Shrewsbury in the 19th century were provided by Mrs Olive Elwin, born in 1884 in Castle Street. She remembered her father buying a car in the early 1900s, and making the three-day drive back from Scotland in it. “There was little traffic, which was just as well because father always drove in the middle of the road.”
20 years ago
Shropshire and West Midlands Agricultural Society celebrated its 100th West Mid Show on May 18/19 and was looking forward to a show set to break many records.
Aside from the articles you can browse on this website, the print magazine contains a wealth of fascinating feature pieces and regular items to keep you entertained and informed. This month, you can also read about:
Magazine cover: May 2008
• Bring on the Bard . . . The end of the month sees the opening of the Wenlock Festival, with an eclectic mix of entertainments, and the annual Shakespeare treat – this year, Richard III
• Saluting our sheriffs . . . Last month, Anne Gee became the county’s fourth lady High Sheriff, after Meriel Afia completed her own term of office. Henry Carpenter looks into the role
• The shock of the new . . . The Period House Shop will supply you with all manner of old-fashioned items – but none are as old as they seem . . .
• Patience and performing arts . . . Helen Soraya is building up her portfolio of roles, the latest in big-screen musical Mamma Mia!. She’s biding her time while looking for a Hollywood break, she tells Tracey O’Sullivan
• Time: The black art . . . Antiques expert Nick Fletcher looks at black slate timepieces, which a regaining popularity
• The future of farming . . . Walford College in the north of the county is leading the way in land-based education
• Cheese and chain mail . . . Some six centuries after the Battle of Shrewsbury, Battlefield is home to a new visitor centre and a farm shop brimming over with quality local produce. Andy Richardson investigates
The Wenlock Festival gets under way on May 31
• Gardening . . . Gill Guest stops off in the shadow of the Long Mynd to see a garden created from scratch
• Fashion Focus . . . Sue Turner finds that it’s a jungle out there on the high street; Tracey O’Sullivan comes clean about white wear
• Can’t beat Beauteous Bhutan . . . Victoria Mitchell travels to the mountainous Himalayan kingdom and finds a different pace of life
• Social diary . . . Our photographers capture your events
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