Cover: 1959.
50 years ago
Each year as Christmas and the New Year come round, our shops will fill up with ever-increasingly attractive suggestions for gifts and the task of the potential purchaser becomes more difficult [stated the 1959 issue]. In an attempt to provide a guide for the discriminating buyer, we publish a selection of the best on offer this year.
One problem is, however, causing us a lot of thought: that is, ‘When does Christmas begin?’ Every year the window displays appear earlier and earlier, and the optimum date at which a feature such as this should appear becomes problematical. Is Santa Claus to make his bow among the Bathing Belles and the fag end of the cricketing fixtures, or should he appear now, almost too late to be recognised?
• Honeychurch and Son, Shoplatch, Shrewsbury, offer a wide variety of quality cutlery, from penknives to 50-piece canteens, carvers and cased cutlery, to make seasonal gifts.
• Telephone or call for your Christmas appointment; specialists in cutting and styling, also permanent waving from 2 gns to 3 gns. Cut, style, shampoo and set, 5s 6d to 7s 6d. Henry Phillips, Ladies and Gentleman’s hairdresser, 6 Milk Street, Shrewsbury.
• This year there is an even better selection of toys. Many continental manufacturers have joined with our factories to make a really bright, dazzling show. In addition to their usual grotto, I noticed a very bright show at Shuker’s basement toy department, Pride Hill. There were Dinky toys and Hornby model railway sets; children’s scooters from 26s 9d.
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:
Cover: 2009.
• Get set to shuffle . . . The streets of Oswestry will be taken over by a surfeit of snowmen and snowladies this month, raising money for Hope House in the annual sponsored run
• Village voices: Wistanstow . . . Ben Bentley drops in to a village with a strong sense of its own identity, and gets to know the locals
• My Christmas . . . The traditional view of Christmas involves tinsel, turkey, and all the trimmings. But, whether through choice or circumstance, not everybody sees it that way. We talk to six people who will spend Christmas Day in a range of different ways
• Arts and books . . . Shirley Tart takes a look at the life of Hesba Stretton, a Shropshire lass whose work included writing for Charles Dickens; and in the run-up to Christmas we offer a taste of the local literature in county bookshops. Neil Thomas talks to a successful county author, and there’s a new Winnie-the-Pooh . . .• Out and about . . . Our photographers at your events, the length and breadth of the county
• Perfection on a plate . . . A bumper food-and-drink section this month: Andy Richardson talks to a top chef about the Christmas table; we offer a selection of canape ideas; there’s a look at a county cheesemaking institution, Appleby’s; some bargain wine cases from Tanners; and Neil Thomas dines out at Dinham Hall.
• Crossword and Festive 50! . . . A Christmas-theme to the cryptic crossword this month, and a couple of quizzes to keep your brain in trim
• Mum’s the word! . . . In 2008 Tracey O’Sullivan became a first-time mum, and wrote a series in The Shropshire Magazine on maternity. A year on, she reports in on the delights of life with a little one
. . . and much, much more . . . Ken Tudor talks to an orchid expert; the antiques salerooms serve up toys; a lottery winner reveals his luxury motoring fleet; and the travel section visits Sicily
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