A free bird in Shrewsbury

“If I leave here tomorrow. Would you still remember me?”

A free bird in Shrewsbury, 29th June 2024 (Author’s Collection)

For my “Brother Andy” (who isn’t my brother) but who always insists I manage to capture his hometown so well. Hope you enjoy mate.

For everyone else, welcome to a brief pictorial stroll through the beautiful Shropshire market town of Shrewsbury. A longer article is sure to follow as I have 30+ more images not featured here as I restrained myself to a lucky 9 from the castle to the library, an abbey that’s welcomed pilgrims since the year 1083 and the town’s magnificent water and flower gardens. I played cricket with fallen apples from a tree, returned a football to a bunch of teenagers with all the grace and skill of Kenny Dalglish in his pomp and I fell in love whilst smoking a cigarette and admired a trio of paddle boarders roll on by on the river of life and indeed, the river Severn below me.

But we don’t have time for tales of such gibberish at this time and certainly not today.

Maybe tomorrow?

Who knows.

I hope you enjoy the pictorial stroll that follows but first, can I point you in the direction of one of my brother’s favourite songs?

Entrance to Shrewsbury Castle, 29th June 2024 (Author’s Collection)

Also at the entrance to Shrewsbury Castle with Shrewsbury Library as a perfect backdrop, 29th June 2024 (Author’s Collection)

Shrewsbury Army Cadet Force at the entrance to Shrewsbury Castle, 29th June 2024 (Author’s Collection)

Charles Darwin sitting proudly at the entrance to Shrewsbury Library, 29th June 2024 (Author’s Collection)

“Shrewsbury Comics Trail”, 29th June 2024 (Author’s Collection)

The bust of local novelist Mary Webb, 29th June 2024 (Author’s Collection)

“Welcoming pilgrims since 1083” so proclaims an information board at the entrance to Shrewsbury Abbey. Obviously they didn’t like the look of this pilgrim as the doors were locked! 29th June 2024 (Author’s Collection)

“The Dingle” inside Shrewsbury’s riverside public park “The Quarry”, 29th June 2024 (Author’s Collection)

“Sabrina”, a fabled Goddess of the River Severn, 29th June 2024 (Author’s Collection)

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Thanks for reading and I hope you read this message in a bottle in an electrical Matrix surrounded by love and a world spinning and turning in your direction. Whilst you’re here and as I bid you goodbye, here are my pride and joy in self-published form and all available via Amazon. Get in quick before they become Pulitzer Prize winners!

Peace.

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