This week’s pictures from the past

These folk were waiting at Bucknell railway station for a train to take them to the 1912 Shrewsbury Flower Show. As you can see, they were in their fancy clothes for the occasion.

Note particularly the trio of ladies on the far right, all sporting extravagant hats which were very much the fashion of the day.

This photo is in one of two albums of photographs almost all featuring Bucknell area loaned to Shrewsbury historian David Trumper by Margaret Evans, of Wenlock Road, Shrewsbury. Her maternal grandfather, William Smith, owned the Bucknell village stores, Smith & Son, and her paternal grandfather, James Evans, was the Bucknell signalman for many years.