This week’s pictures from the past
Friday 16th October 2009, 9:38AM BST.
In February 1988 a group of Shrewsbury schoolboys were dramatically rescued from the River Severn after their boat crashed into a bridge before the start of a race.
The four were left clinging to a buttress of the English Bridge while the cox, Daniel Talbot-Ponsonby, swam downstream in the swirling river.
He managed to get to the side 50 yards downstream while the other four, 15-year-old James Clover and 16-year-olds Steven Killian, Martin Kettle and Daniel Corbett, were rescued by the fire service using ropes and ladders.
The incident happened when boys from Shrewsbury School were preparing for an inter-school rowing race.
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