Category: Leisure, culture and heritage

1902 Leisure, culture and heritage posts found.

Shrewsbury Castle Dig Day 5

09/09/2020

A much bigger trench! (Picture credit: M Capper)

Dig day number 5 bought with it some lovely weather, just a little wind and plenty of sunshine. Our objective today was…

Shrewsbury Castle Dig Day 4 – weekend roundup: excavating the Victorian glasshouse interior

09/09/2020

An image of the dig team working on the archaeological dig at Shrewsbury Castle.

As we arrived on site for Day 4 our curious lime filled feature of yesterday, with its loose rubble edge had proved…

Blog: Shrewsbury Castle dig – day 3: An unexpected American connection

04/09/2020

Medicine bottles: likely Victorian or later? (Picture credit: B. Christian)

Today started with a widening of our trench by a further metre, taking it to 4 x 3 metres. With a smaller…

Blog: Shrewsbury Castle dig – day 2: Rain, with a chance of archaeology

03/09/2020

Christian and Lucy Salter cleaning the first finds

The second day of the Shrewsbury Castle dig (Wednesday 2 September 2020) began very similarly to yesterday. Now we have found the…

Blog: Shrewsbury Castle dig – day 1: A Victorian greenhouse, or something else?

02/09/2020

In 2019 Nigel Baker and University Centre Shrewsbury history staff and students took part in the first archaeological investigation within the grounds…

Coronavirus: It’s business as usual in Craven Arms

01/09/2020

Craven Arms is safe, and very much open for business – that’s the message from independent traders who are urging shoppers to…

Coronavirus: Theatre Severn postpones pantomime until winter 2021

01/09/2020

Shropshire Council’s Theatre Severn have announced that this year’s pantomime “Beauty and the Beast” has been postponed until winter 2021. The production was…