This is the High Cross, Pride Hill, Shrewsbury, in about 1957 or 1958, with the mock Tudor Crown Hotel towards the right. In those days traffic could go up Pride Hill.
On the left is Morris’s large shop, home of the Elizabethan and Tudor cafes, and also with a dance hall. It was built in 1927 and the frontage was modelled on Blickling Hall in Norfolk.
This is one of a number of postcards which was given to Shrewsbury author and historian David Trumper by Mrs Mary Turner, the widow of Stan Turner, of Shrewsbury, who died earlier this year.
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thank you s/star and david trumper for some lovely memomories. oh to have the mock tudor crown hotel back!
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No wonder Southam’s beer was so thin and yucky. But, we still kept drinking it in the ‘Fishes’. perhaps that is where the Pub got its name too!
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This picture makes me cry. I was a young lad who thought it so ‘posh’ to sit, having a pint in an armchair in the George, then pop down to the Raven, round the corner.
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