Cover: 1959
50 years ago
• “Manners maketh Salopian,” wrote Dorothy More, commenting on how she had been made to feel welcome on moving to the county, and the wonderful friendships offered to her.
“You make me think of a letter I read in a paper, not long ago,” said a fellow traveller.
“The writer said that his mother went about on a tricycle, but in the new district they moved to, she was so much embarrassed by people’s rudeness, pointing and sniggering, that she had to give it up.
“I did write to the paper and say that if she liked to change again and come to Shropshire, she could go where she pleased, quite unnoticed.
“Believe it or not, t’isn’t so many years ago that a man passed me riding the old-time Penny-Farthing, with a huge front wheel, and no one looked at him twice. Indeed, men have led along elephants and bears in my time, and our folks minded their own business.”
• EV Bayne recalled how Shropshire villagers had “queer ideas of sport in the old days”.
In Shrewsbury, on October 8, 1594, the Corporation made an order “that there shall not be hereafter any interludes or playes made within this town or liberties upon any Soundaye or in the night time. Niyther shall there be any playing at football, or at hilties or wastrells [cudgels] or beare-bayting within the walls of this town.”
Cover: 2009
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:
• Reads like teen spirit . . . Fifteen-year-old Hannah Coles kicks off an occasional column looking at life from a teenager’s perspective
• A pointer to the past . . . Look carefully and you will find milestones in all manner of peculiar roadside places, but they are facing dangers in the modern world. Ben Bentley talks to a man on a mission to protect them
• At your service . . . Bruce Partington finds out how an ex-Secret Serviceman is helping consumers secure a better deal on the internet
• The book of the film . . . Neil Thomas meets Stella Hockenhull, a lady with a job many would envy – lecturer in Film Studies. Now, she has used her expertise to write a scholarly tome
• Out and about . . . Shirley Tart on Shropshire’s thriving social scene, and pictures from your events around the county
• Food and drink . . . Andy Richardson’s news round-up; the wine column featuring a top winemaker from New Zealand; Neil Thomas dines out in stately style at Powis Castle; and supping with Spooner in Oswestry
• Mum’s the word! . . . Bean finally makes a bow – or should that read Beau . . .
• Fashion focus . . . Sue Turner and Nathan Rous give us their take on women’s and men’s fashion respectively
• Travel . . . John Cushing of Goldstone Hall tags along on a wine-buyer’s trip to Portugal, while Frank Corless fetes the fjords
• Antiques . . . Nick Fletcher on one of Doulton’s finest painters – who went on to become a nun
• Motoring . . . Tony Adams meets a man who wields a mean spraygun
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