1884 – Bedstone Court, Salop, Shropshire
Architect: Thomas Harris
Constructed for Sir Henry W. Ripley, now a private school. The red brick and black-and-white timbered house was built between 1882 and 1884, to a design by architect Thomas Harris, for Sir Henry Ripley, a wealthy Yorkshire industrialist and Member of Parli
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The UK’s best pub has been crowned for 2025
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/25571058 [https://feddit.uk/post/25571058] > > CAMRA’s official pub of the year 2025 is… The Bailey Head in Oswestry, Shropshire! According to the judges: ‘The pub is a rags-to-riches success story after the owners turned what was once a closed local into a haven for the local community.’ > > > >That focus on community was really what pushed the Bailey Head into the top spot, as CAMRA’s Awards Director Laura Emson explained; ‘There could not be a more deserving winner for the Pub of the Year than the Bailey Head. In a time when running a pub is a significant challenge, the commitment and enthusiasm Duncan and Grace show should be highly commended and seen as an example.’ > > > >The boozer not only sells a selection of quality beers and ciders, it is also ‘a hub for locals to come together for good causes through events like their charity pub quizzes and live music’, and its landlords say that they have a strict ‘everyone welcome’ policy. Owner Duncan Borrowman said: ‘Any person should feel happy and comfortable coming in by themselves and enjoying a drink, either on their own or chatting to other customers.’ > > > >‘We thrive on being the heart of the community and a place where people gather to celebrate or commiserate.’
Longest current goal-scoring run in the top four tiers of English football (consecutive league games)
1️⃣Liverpool - 14
2️⃣Huddersfield - 10
3️⃣Walsall - 10
4️⃣Wrexham - 9
5️⃣W.B.A. - 8
6️⃣Preston - 8
7️⃣Shrewsbury - 8
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Most league games lost in the last 5 years
1️⃣Shrewsbury - 104
2️⃣Bristol Rovers - 101
3️⃣Burton - 100
4️⃣Cambridge - 99
5️⃣Cardiff - 99
🔗Full table: https://footballrates.com/lastfiveyears.html
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Humbug: vandal smashes gravestone of Ebenezer Scrooge
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/20460048 [https://feddit.uk/post/20460048] > > “Marley was dead: to begin with,” begins Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, the ghostly morality tale of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge who, through a series of encounters with spirits in the early hours of Christmas morning, realises he needs to change his ways. > > > >It is an imagined story – there is no Scrooge and, unlike his unfortunate business partner, he is not dead. But that does not appear to have mattered to a vandal in Shropshire, where a gravestone of Scrooge used in a 1984 film adaptation has been smashed into multiple pieces. > > > >The prop, a heavy piece of stone several centimetres thick engraved with the name “Ebenezer Scrooge”, has lain in the graveyard of St Chad’s church, Shrewsbury, since the movie 40 years ago starring George C Scott. > > > >While Scrooge is definitely fictional, the stone may have belonged to an unknown real person whose name was weathered away over hundreds of years, according to a BBC interview with Martin Wood, Shrewsbury’s town crier, who was a body double in the film. > > > >It can be seen in the scene where Scrooge, described by Dickens as “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner”, is taken to the grave of an unloved man by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come and discovers it bears his own name. > > > >Town council clerk Helen Ball said the prop was a popular attraction in the village. “It’s one of those things that is very dear to everybody’s hearts,” she told BBC Radio Shropshire. “When you look at the Facebook messages that people put on yesterday, it’s united a community in terms of the disgust that somebody can do that.” > > > > … > > > > She said: “Maybe if it’s someone in their drunken revelry, they might have posted it on Facebook or something, and maybe somebody with a bit of conscience might let us know who that is. > > > >“Or equally,” she said, providing a potentially satisfying ending, “the person who did it may have a conscience and decide to own up”. > > > >Ball added, in true Victorian style, it would be a “good reason to bring the stocks back”.
Teams that have gone the longest without back-to-back league wins (Top four tiers)
1️⃣Shrewsbury Town - 77
2️⃣Carlisle United - 72
3️⃣Harrogate Town - 33
4️⃣Plymouth Argyle - 32
5️⃣Cheltenham Town - 30
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Escaped capybara 'probably living her best life'
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/17555750 [https://feddit.uk/post/17555750] > > The search for an escaped capybara which fled a zoo four days ago is continuing “around the clock”. > > > >Cinnamon fled her habitat at Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur World in Telford on Friday and entered woodlands within the zoo grounds. > > > >The last sighting of her was on Saturday, after she managed to get beyond the perimeter fence. > > > >Zoo owner Will Dorrell said he believed Cinnamon had made it to the Humber Brook river, near the attraction’s northern boundary, where “she’s probably living her best life”. > > > > … > > > > Cinnamon escaped when keepers entered the capybara enclosure to mow the paddock, as she was hidden in long grass near the gate, Mr Dorrell said. > > > >When the gate was opened, she slipped around the side of a tractor to leave the enclosure. > > > >“Our two young capybara here are always trying to work out a different way of trying to cause us headaches,” Mr Dorrell said. > > > >"They’re extremely intelligent which a lot of people might not necessarily appreciate. > > > >“She seemed to know what we were going to do and was waiting there ready for that gate to be opened.” > > > >While a capybara has never escaped from the zoo before, Mr Dorrell said one managed to dig under a fence to get into an ostrich enclosure a few years ago, but quickly realised she wanted to come back
Hidden mosaic discovered at Roman site
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/16109464 [https://feddit.uk/post/16109464] > > A 2,000-year-old mosaic has been discovered during excavations at a Roman site in Shropshire. > > > >The piece at Wroxeter Roman City depicts brightly-coloured dolphins and fish. > > > >It was uncovered during work to search for the main civic temple. > > > >“Our excavations were in hope of discovering the walls of this building, but we never suspected we would find a beautiful and intact mosaic, which had lain hidden for thousands of years,” said Win Scutt, from English Heritage.
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