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Salopian Recorder No.107

Autumn 2023

Conservation of ‘The Life of the Renowned Sir Phillip Sidney’ by Sir Fulke Greville

Friends’ visit to Hawkstone Hall Shrewsbury Castle

Salopian Recorder No.106

Summer 2023

Making use of Building Plans

Henry Pidgeon’s ‘Salopian Annals’

Champagne in the Cellars

Salopian Recorder No.105

Spring 2023

‘Fire Fire’ – Salop Fire Insurance Books

The Travels and Travails of Lord Berwick

The Council’s Corporate Memory

Salopian Recorder No.104

Autumn 2022

The ‘Demon Barber’ of Shrewsbury

Inn Sites

Covid 19-A Shropshire Diary

Salopian Recorder No.103

Summer 2022

River Trust Project

Digitising our largest map

The Church Stretton Workhouse

Salopian Recorder No.102

Winter/Spring 2022

The Bridgewater Collection: When the railway came to Ellesmere

Adventures of a Tramp and a Philosopher

Oswestry’s ‘black ditch’

Salopian Recorder No.101

Autumn 2021

Anchorites in Shropshire

The Ludlow Grammar School that never was

Little Wenlock

Salopian Recorder No.100

Two Significant Anniversaries

Salopian Recorder- 100, not out!

A Trusty Son of Shropshire

Salopian Recorder No.99

Winter/Spring 2021

A Plague Outbreak

Photo Album of the Coates Family of Woodcote

Letters and Lime Trees

Salopian Recorder No.98

Autumn 2020

The Wyatts at Wroxeter

Evacustes Phipson

Newport Inventory Project

Salopian Recorder No.97

Archives and Museums in Lockdown

Pinning Historic Photos to a Map

The Bishop’s Castle Railways that never were

Katherine Plymley’s Journals

Some notes on the archives’ photographic collection

Salopian Recorder No.96

Winter/Spring 2020

The Owen Family Collection

A Shrewsbury Scandal

Visit to Chillington Hall

Salopian Recorder No 95    

Autumn 2019

Bicton Lunatic Asylum

Burr’s Lead Works

The Whitchurch Branch Canal

Salopian Recorder No.94

Summer 2019

The Picken collection

Roman Catholics in Shropshire

Who ran the Lunatic Asylum

Salopian Recorder No.93

Winter/Spring 2019

When the Recruiting Officers came to town

Railways in the 1860s

Bishop’s Castle in the First World War

Salopian Recorder No.92

Autumn 2018

Arthur Allwood, Shropshire RHA and KSLI, 1912-1919

Researching Myndtown Church

Shrewsbury at work

Salopian Recorder No.91

Summer 2018

The Rev Edward Williams

Wilfred Owen’s Shrewsbury

English Bridge, Shrewsbury – Part 3

Salopian Recorder No.90

Spring 2018

Thomas Weaver of Shrewsbury – Animal Artist of the Agricultural Revolution

English Bridge, Shrewsbury – Part 2

Walter Hancox of Much Wenlock

Salopian Recorder No.89

Autumn 2017

Newport’s ‘Miss Haversham’ – Fact or fiction

English Bridge, Shrewsbury – Part 1

James Mallinson (1891-1959) – Photographer from Shrewsbury

Family History – A stitch in time

Salopian Recorder No.88

Summer 2017

Life stories from the Poor Law records

Medical insights from Poor Law records

A Digitizer’s Tale

Feature – Andrew Davidson, Conservator

Salopian Recorder No.87

Winter/Spring 2017

Impressions of the Past: medieval seals and historical research

Book review: Braidwood &c

Building Shrewsbury’s Markets

Salopian Recorder No.86

Summer/Autumn 2016

A Provincial Frost Fair and an Ill-fated Stuntman

Researching Transport History

‘A Crow’s Nest’: The significance of Wem during the English Civil War, 1642-1646

Feature: Sara Downs, archivist

Salopian Recorder No.85

Spring/Summer 2016

Wenlock Abbey 1857-1919

Wenlock Borough Minute Book, 1495-1658

Shrewsbury Bridges ‘Broken by the Flow’, 1672

A Shropshire Country Gentleman at the Front

Salopian Recorder No.84

Winter/Spring 2016

The Coalbrookdale Doctors

Annual Lecture: Graham Bradbury ‘Military Conflicts through Artefacts, Letters, Postcards and Family History’

Feature: Samantha Mager, Senior Archivist