Category: Leisure, culture and heritage

1878 Leisure, culture and heritage posts found.

Shrewsbury Flower Show 2019 – parking and transport arrangements on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 August 2019

07/08/2019
Rose

Shropshire Council is reminding people about parking arrangements in Shrewsbury town centre on the days of the Shrewsbury Flower Show, held on…

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Shrewsbury Castle Dig Diary: Day Nine – Military Arrowhead found!

01/08/2019

Day nine of the dig at Shrewsbury Castle proved one of the wettest yet, but the weather didn’t stop the team from…

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Shrewsbury Castle Dig Diary: Day Eight

01/08/2019
An image of an aerial view of the excavation trench at Shrewsbury Castle.

Day eight of the dig at Shrewsbury Castle and the rain left us. We had an incredibly sunny day with more volunteers…

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Volunteers wanted to help treasure local memories

01/08/2019
An image in black and white of two men working in the old millstone quarry in the Severn Valley. The Severn Valley Lives in the Landscape project is looking for volunteers to help preserve memories like these.

Severn Valley Country Park are looking for  volunteers to help capture the memories of local people that can be treasured and accessible…

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A classic thriller calls on Theatre Severn in Shrewsbury

01/08/2019
An Inspector Calls

The full cast has been announced for the UK and Ireland tour of Stephen Daldry’s seminal production of JB Priestley’s classic thriller…

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Shrewsbury Castle Dig Diary: Day Six

29/07/2019
An image of volunteers on the Shrewsbury Castle excavation in and around the trench on a wet Saturday.

After five days of blistering sun when the rain came it was torrential. All the diggers were quite quickly soaked but still…

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Shrewsbury Castle Dig Diary: Day Five

29/07/2019
An image of the Shrewsbury Castle dig team discussing layers in part of the trench, trying to understand the relationships between different elements of the archaeology.

Day five at Shrewsbury Castle began by resolving the deeper trench surrounding the 1920’s water pipe. As we know that what surrounded…

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Shrewsbury Castle Dig Diary: Day Four

29/07/2019
An image of the dig taking place at Shrewsbury Castle on a sunny day with Shrewsbury Castle standing proudly in the background.

Day four of the dig at Shrewsbury Castle saw the archaeology getting really complicated. At our end of the trench it was…

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Event to mark 50 Years since the closure of Alveley Colliery

26/07/2019
Railway and fields at Severn Valley Country Park

Severn Valley Country Park is holding a family friendly event on Sunday 6 October to mark 50 years since the closure of…

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Shrewsbury Castle Dig Diary – Day Three

25/07/2019

Day three of the excavation has seen us move through the lower part of layer two. We have begun to find more…

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