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It Happened in Shropshire

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It Happened in Shropshire is a vibrant and compelling account of the county’s diverse heritage; its heroes, its battles, its discoveries, its crimes. Bob Burrows’s highly readable prose transports the reader through time, racing across the landscape of Shropshire’s past from the woolly mammoths of 10,000 BC, the Roman occupation of Wroxeter and the Battle of Shrewsbury, to the Industrial Revolution and to the sporting achievements and murderous exploits of recent years. The book celebrates Salopians of national renown such as Charles Darwin, Clive of India, Wilfred Owen and Percy Thrower, as well as commemorating the accidents and disasters of: Shropshire’s ghostly past…and present The legends of ‘Mad Jack’ Mytton and the charismatic outlaw Sir Humphrey Kynaston A celebration of Salopian sporting champions: Ian Woosnam, Sandy Lyle, Richie Woodhall, Billy Wright Shropshire’s notorious and also its heroic vicars The 'Black Panther’ and other Salopian murderers exposed

Table of Contents:
Map of Shropshire 5 Introduction 6 Unique Shropshire facts 10 1. SHROPSHIRE: A COUNTY PROFILE 12 Brief history touching on geology, geography, and culture. 2. FAMOUS SALOPIANS 34 Clive of India, Charles Darwin, Wilfred Owen, Mary Webb, Ellis Peters, Barbara Pym, Percy Thrower. 3. FASCINATING CHARACTERS 68 Fulk Fitz Warin, Dick Whittington, Sir Humphrey Kynaston, Tom Parr, Judge Jeffreys, Molly Morgan, ‘Mad’ Jack Mytton. 4. MEN OF THE CLOTH 94 Vicar of Stanton Lacy, Reverend Carr. 5. BIRTHPLACE OF CHAMPIONS 116 William Penny Brookes, Captain Matthew Webb, Sir Gordon Richards, Billy Wright, Joe Hart, Sandy Lyle, Ian Woosnam, Richie Woodhall. 6. MURDER MOST FOUL 148 George Riley, the Black Panther, Hilda Murrell, the Heath House Murder, Osbaston House, the Mystery of the Body in the Burnt-out Car, the Massage Parlour Murders. 7. IT HAPPENED IN SHROPSHIRE... OR DID IT? 169 Ghosts, apparitions, legend, folk lore and unexplained events around Shropshire. 8. DISASTERS, ACCIDENTS & TRAGEDIES 194 Mines – Brick Kiln Leasow, Springwell Pit, Lodgebank Colliery, Snailbeach, Priors Lee, Granville Colliery, Kemberton Pit. Railways – Priors Lee, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury. 9. THE BATTLE OF SHREWSBURY, 1403 209 Acknowledgements 216 Useful Addresses 217 Bibliography 219 Index 220-223


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781906122904
  • Publisher: Merlin Unwin Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Merlin Unwin Books
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1906122903
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2015
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 224


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