Category: Leisure, culture and heritage

1954 Leisure, culture and heritage posts found.

Discover town’s lost history in new exhibition at Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery

11/11/2019
An image of a painting of the English Bridge in Shrewsbury by CW Radclyffe in the early nineteenth Century. The painting will feature in the Lost Shrewsbury exhibition at Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery.

Discover ‘Lost Shrewsbury’ in the new exhibition at Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery (SM&AG) which is set to open on Saturday 23…

Continue reading

Last chance to have your say on proposed changes to the Libraries Strategy

05/11/2019
An image of Shrewsbury Library.

A public consultation on updates to Shropshire Council’s libraries strategy ends this Friday, and people are being encouraged to have their say…

Continue reading

Lost Shrewsbury: Book signing at Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery

04/11/2019
An image in black and white of Shrewsbury in 1909. The image features in the book authored by David Trumper.

Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery (SM&AG) are inviting you to join local author, David Trumper, for the book signing event of his…

Continue reading

Shropshire Archives to close for essential behind the scenes work

01/11/2019
Shropshire Archives

Shropshire Council’s Shropshire Archives is to close from Saturday 23 November 2019 until Tuesday 3 December 2019 inclusive, for essential behind the…

Continue reading

Shropshire Archives launches fantastic collection of local photographs online

14/10/2019
Postman in front of post office motorbike, c.1915-20, Shropshire Archives ref: PH/B/34/85/355

Shropshire Council’s Shropshire Archives service is launching a fantastic collection of photographs online for the first time. The photographs were taken by…

Continue reading

Vocal workshop with Richard Frostick on Saturday 19 October

10/10/2019

Shropshire Council’s Shropshire Music Education Hub is inviting adult singers and community choirs to a vocal workshop with leading singing expert Richard…

Continue reading

Concert of Holocaust music and poetry in Shrewsbury on Wednesday 16 October

10/10/2019

A special concert of Holocaust music and poetry is being held in St Mary’s Church, in the centre of Shrewsbury, on Wednesday 16…

Continue reading

Shropshire Libraries celebrate successful Summer Reading Challenge

07/10/2019
Summer Reading Challenge 2019 materials

Shropshire Libraries are celebrating their most successful Summer Reading Challenge campaign in recent years as nearly 3,000 children signed up across Shropshire.…

Continue reading

Let’s Get Ready bookbags launching today, for Libraries Week

07/10/2019
Let's Get Ready For Life

Shropshire Libraries (Shropshire Council), and the council’s education improvement service early years team, are launching resources today to tie in with Libraries…

Continue reading

Darwin Room Session a great success at Shrewsbury Library

04/10/2019
An image of Shrewsbury Library.

Soaring rock guitar solos, fast-fretted distorted tunes and six-string shredding. Not quite what you’d expect to encounter at a Grade II-listed building,…

Continue reading