Just a few postcards from Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury in Shropshire. How to pronounce it? Shrowsbury or Shrusebury? I was brought up with the former. Apparently most locals prefer the latter. Apart from those who don’t. I give up. Let’s go on a stroll round this lovely, quiet, tucked-away town with oodles of history. Click on any image to reveal it full size, with caption.

For Debbie’s Six Word Saturday.

And the Salvador Dali and electricity boxes qualify for Natalie’s Photographing Public Art Challenge.

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Author: margaret21

I'm retired and live in North Yorkshire, where I walk , write, volunteer and travel as often as I can.

80 thoughts on “Just a few postcards from Shrewsbury”

  4. I wd say the latter…. but then, you know that this Swiss is the Queen of proper English pronunciation 🥰
    I think my greatest stumble was the wooster sauce…. and I don’t even like it. It’s just one of those senseless but beautiful English things one needs to know! This place would also find my total approval.

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  6. I have very fond holiday memories of Shrewsbury, and Bridgnorth is very interesting, too. Nearby Much Wenlock was home to the first modern Olympic Games if memory serves (which it often doesn’t these days).

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  8. However you pronounce it, it’s a darling town! I especially like the two men stepping up on the curb and the shot of the guy with you in the reflection shooting the image.

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  9. Don’t get the OH started on the pronunciation, he’s a definite Shrowsbury native (Shrewsbury began life as Scrobbesbyrig and Scrobbesburh in Old English, which has several meanings including “fort in the scrub-land region”, “Scrobb’s fort”, “shrubstown” or “the town of the bushes”. This then mutated to Schrosberie.) What he hates the most is people who say Shoosbury!! And yes there are some.

    The painted electric boxes are new from my last visit which must have been 2018. It’s got some nice bits (I have several posts on my Travel blog) but I much preferred living in Ludlow. Smaller and more charming I think. You’ll have to visit there next time and Church Stretton with the wonderful Cardingmill Valley.

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  15. My grandmother lived there in her later life so we used to visit quite often. She always opted for Shrusebury and so did we, then later someone told us that was wrong but it had stuck by then! And now we have an old uni friend living there and when we had a Covid-year-staycation there in 2020 we met her for dinner and I checked again – and she said Shrusebury too! But again, like my grandmother, she’s an incomer not a native 😆

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  21. Shrewsbury looks like a charming town to explore. I love the colourful and friendly-looking animals painted on the electricity boxes. Thank you for your PPAC contribution. I was away on a trip and just got back to blogging today.

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  22. You reminded me of A.E. Housman’s “A Shropshire Lad” which was first published in 1896!

    Stars, I have seen them fall,
    But when they drop and die
    No star is lost at all
    From all the star-sown sky.
    The toil of all that be
    Helps not the primal fault;
    It rains into the sea
    And still the sea is salt.
    A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad

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      1. I agree, which makes the poem even more interesting. I loved visiting Shrewsbury a few years ago. I was hoping to meet up with Ellis Peters and his wonderful character, “Cadfael”

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  23. There’s a fair amount of us who completely forget about the R and call it Shewsbury! 😀 No matter how it’s pronounced, it’s a wonderful place and there’s plenty to see there.

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  24. I suspect I am slightly ‘bilingual’ in pronouncing the name. I once heard it depends which side of the river you live on, but I forget the details. I have a soft spot for it too, although I haven’t had chance to visit for a while.

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  25. It’s years since I was there. Do they still use the connection to the Cadfael novels to promote the town? Maybe that idea fizzled out once the TV series went off our screens

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      1. Well I’m no expert on them – I watched all the TV adaptations but read only a few. The characterisation of Cadfael is good and I enjoyed the historical context of the unrest caused by the conflict between Matilda and Stephen. They are not “high literature” but sometimes I’m happy with just a good yarn

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