Moving to Shrewsbury : The Good the bad and the ugly ?
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NormarkSuperswede said:
Jesus ... this place is a mams dream come true . I have never seen so many very good looking women out and about drinking and eating in groups . And they all seem to be lighter on their bones ??
You obviously didnt visit the buttermarket (aka the scuttermarket! then!blue_haddock said:
NormarkSuperswede said:
Jesus ... this place is a mams dream come true . I have never seen so many very good looking women out and about drinking and eating in groups . And they all seem to be lighter on their bones ??
You obviously didnt visit the buttermarket (aka the scuttermarket! then!My family roots are all in Shrewsbury and I spent the best 3 years of my teenage years there in the very early 80’s
I was meant to be going to Tech College but knew better and boy did I have some fun, I’ve no idea how I got away with some if the antics we got up to!
I lived with my Nan in a council house on Mereside (probably a pretty nasty place but we loved it) and I’d walk or cycle everywhere. Carol Decker of Tapau fame was our barmaid in the Three Fishes and I used to work in a little restaurant behind the hotel on the cop called Polly’s. I remember the owners were swingers, that generated one or two interesting stories after hours
I have very fond memories of what still seems to be a lovely market town including that of my best mate and subsequently life long dear friend who I met when I was not 16 and we became quite notorious, much like a early 80’s version of the inbetweeners! Sadly he died a couple of years ago us having been close from the day we met.
Going to the quarry late at night with various girls, being caught under the English Bridge by a dog walker with my new girl friend in a rather compromising position........those were the days!
My Dad has left Shrewsbury to join the Army and eventually settled in Weybridge. He came up one day and simply said “you can stay here and always have a laugh or you can come down to London and make something of your life”
We put my bike on the back if his car and I left Shrewsbury and the rest is history. I grew up, worked extremely hard and now have a successful business nearly 25 years in the making and a lifestyle I don’t think I would have had if I had stayed where I was.
I rarely get back there now but have fond memories of my time, frankly being a compete dick in Shrewsbury!
I was meant to be going to Tech College but knew better and boy did I have some fun, I’ve no idea how I got away with some if the antics we got up to!
I lived with my Nan in a council house on Mereside (probably a pretty nasty place but we loved it) and I’d walk or cycle everywhere. Carol Decker of Tapau fame was our barmaid in the Three Fishes and I used to work in a little restaurant behind the hotel on the cop called Polly’s. I remember the owners were swingers, that generated one or two interesting stories after hours
I have very fond memories of what still seems to be a lovely market town including that of my best mate and subsequently life long dear friend who I met when I was not 16 and we became quite notorious, much like a early 80’s version of the inbetweeners! Sadly he died a couple of years ago us having been close from the day we met.
Going to the quarry late at night with various girls, being caught under the English Bridge by a dog walker with my new girl friend in a rather compromising position........those were the days!
My Dad has left Shrewsbury to join the Army and eventually settled in Weybridge. He came up one day and simply said “you can stay here and always have a laugh or you can come down to London and make something of your life”
We put my bike on the back if his car and I left Shrewsbury and the rest is history. I grew up, worked extremely hard and now have a successful business nearly 25 years in the making and a lifestyle I don’t think I would have had if I had stayed where I was.
I rarely get back there now but have fond memories of my time, frankly being a compete dick in Shrewsbury!
Edited by HoHoHo on Tuesday 15th January 06:55
blue_haddock said:
Nimby said:
Not quite stalking you but after 35 years in Basingstoke we're moving to Little Wenlock in 2 weeks.
The huntsman is the local pub and its fantastic!https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/business/2019/...
Nimby said:
ARHarh said:
We moved from Fleet Hampshire to just outside Oswestry 6 years ago...
Not quite stalking you but after 35 years in Basingstoke we're moving to Little Wenlock in 2 weeks.
te areas, including Shrewsbury but what I like best about Telford is that it was build 50 years ago for the car, it's dead easy to get around unlike Shrewsbury which was built for the horse, a nighmare to get around.Telford shopping centre just gets better every year, don't know where the money comes from, Shropshire council want to join Telford and Wrekin council and the Wrekin are saying no, we a happy as we are.
Telford......... I Love the place.
Edit to add:
I thought my house was comng down today.....I didn't know they were blasting the Ironbridge cooling towers but they are gone! I have the old clocking in clock from there that was taken out in the mid 80's, it's in my hall way, I make the kids stamp in and out with it.
Edited by Ferodocastrol on Friday 6th December 20:31
HoHoHo said:
He came up one day and simply said “you can stay here and always have a laugh or you can come down to London and make something of your life”
Though given your user name,I take it you still get to have a laugh now and then?(And yes, it did take me 10 months to think of that joke)
Ian Geary said:
HoHoHo said:
He came up one day and simply said “you can stay here and always have a laugh or you can come down to London and make something of your life”
Though given your user name,I take it you still get to have a laugh now and then?(And yes, it did take me 10 months to think of that joke)
For me, the best decision was leaving Shrewsbury.
That’s not the case for everyone but I don’t believe I would be where I am now if I had continued living in Mereside.
How’s the OP getting on?
Another Hants migrant here, I moved from Hartley Wintney to Bridgnorth in 2007 and Much Wenlock in 2012 where I’ve been living since, in open countryside a mile or two outside the town. Work in London regularly still and it’s always an absolute pleasure driving those last few miles into the county and feeling at home with the place.
I’ve had plenty of experience with the hospitals mentioned in this thread too - big thumbs up for RJAH in Oswestry.
Another Hants migrant here, I moved from Hartley Wintney to Bridgnorth in 2007 and Much Wenlock in 2012 where I’ve been living since, in open countryside a mile or two outside the town. Work in London regularly still and it’s always an absolute pleasure driving those last few miles into the county and feeling at home with the place.
I’ve had plenty of experience with the hospitals mentioned in this thread too - big thumbs up for RJAH in Oswestry.
Ferodocastrol said:
Edit to add:
I thought my house was comng down today.....I didn't know they were blasting the Ironbridge cooling towers but they are gone! I have the old clocking in clock from there that was taken out in the mid 80's, it's in my hall way, I make the kids stamp in and out with it.
Could almost cry.I thought my house was comng down today.....I didn't know they were blasting the Ironbridge cooling towers but they are gone! I have the old clocking in clock from there that was taken out in the mid 80's, it's in my hall way, I make the kids stamp in and out with it.
Edited by Ferodocastrol on Friday 6th December 20:31
That place has been a feature of my life since I can remember. Visiting it with my dad and coming home with a ball from the coal mills, seeing the blatant crime of the A station being knocked down before a preservation order could be put on it because the CEGB didnt want the cost of having to look after it. Going to see the HP governor valve that was shot 300 feet into the air, to doing my apprenticeship and finally working there.
Sad, sad day.
EDIT !!!!
Just noticed you have the clock from the hall !, bloody hell !. I used to have to race up the access road most days to get my card punched on time, then saunter back to have breakfast before actually doing any work.
if you ever would want to part with it, I would really like it.
But im also glad it didnt get scrapped.
They were counter productive. You might be on a job that needed another 5-10 minutes of work, but you had to get a shower and down to the hall to make sure you got in the queue early, otherwise you would have to wait 'ages!' while everyone else clocked out.
Still find it hard to believe these days that I had to clock in and out.
Edited by Gary C on Sunday 8th December 08:54
I bought it for the family business thinking we could use it but we decided to go for an electric clocking in system instead, I'd say the same reason IPS got rid of it.
The chap who worked there lived in Parkfields Wolverhampton by the name of Smith, can't remember his first name, his son Martin was a bass player and I played drums in his band, so I would visit the house on a regular basis, one day his dad turned up and asked us to help get this clock out of his car, he kept it for a while and then one day I asked if he wanted to sell it to me a 19 year old skint kid.............'.go on then 45 quid no less'
Around 2005 I had it serviced and it still ticks away like a swiss watch.
No plans to sell yet, I've moved several times in the 34 years of owning it and I've had it on the wall in each house by the front door, it's always been a talking piece.
I also helped build four oak doors for Shrophire Joinery of Newport that sit underneath the Ironbridge in 1991, they are still there today where the two arches are.
Love Shropshire, love Telford, love Ironbridge!
The chap who worked there lived in Parkfields Wolverhampton by the name of Smith, can't remember his first name, his son Martin was a bass player and I played drums in his band, so I would visit the house on a regular basis, one day his dad turned up and asked us to help get this clock out of his car, he kept it for a while and then one day I asked if he wanted to sell it to me a 19 year old skint kid.............'.go on then 45 quid no less'
Around 2005 I had it serviced and it still ticks away like a swiss watch.
No plans to sell yet, I've moved several times in the 34 years of owning it and I've had it on the wall in each house by the front door, it's always been a talking piece.
I also helped build four oak doors for Shrophire Joinery of Newport that sit underneath the Ironbridge in 1991, they are still there today where the two arches are.
Love Shropshire, love Telford, love Ironbridge!
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