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There's Life in Pattingham, Staffordshire' provides insight into the lives of people who lived, worked and died here since newspapers were published nearly three centuries ago. It includes articles on births, engagements, marriages, divorces, accidents, deaths, crime, sport, leisure activities, auctions and sale particulars.

The world-famous Feathers Hotel in Ludlow is a well-preserved Tudor coaching inn. It is visited and photographed by tourists and locals, but few know much about its history. Bernard O'Connor's latest book on Shropshire provides a selection of over 250 years of newspaper articles that detail the sales, auctions, meetings, political corruption, landlords, landladies, births, marriages, deaths, inquests - and much more - to reveal life in The Fea...

Shrewsbury's famous Nag's Head is a fine example of a late-Medieval coaching inn. It is visited and photographed by tourists and locals, but few know much about its history. Bernard O'Connor's latest book on Shropshire provides a selection of over 250 years of newspaper articles that detail the sales, auctions, meetings, landlords, landladies, births, marriages, deaths, inquests - and much more - to reveal life in the Nag's Head.

Shrewsbury's famous Nag's Head is a fine example of a late-Medieval coaching inn. It is visited and photographed by tourists and locals, but few know much about its history. Bernard O'Connor's latest book on Shropshire provides a selection of over 250 years of newspaper articles that detail the sales, auctions, meetings, landlords, landladies, births, marriages, deaths, inquests - and much more - to reveal life in the Nag's Head.

The world-famous Feathers Hotel in Ludlow is a well-preserved Tudor Inn. It is visited and photographed by tourists and locals, but few know much about its history. Bernard O'Connor's latest book on Shropshire provides a selection of over 250 years of newspaper articles that detail the sales, auctions, meetings, political corruption, landlords, landladies, births, marriages, deaths, inquests - and much more - to reveal life in The Feathers.

On the road between Craven Arms and Much Wenlock in Shropshire there are four pubs. One, the Crown Inn, formerly the Hundred House, boasts having a timber over the inglenook fireplace from one of Sir Francis Drake's ships that defeated the Spanish Armada. Used as a court for the Lord of the Manor to try local offenders, it subsequently was used for auctions, inquests, meetings, as well as celebrating events in people's lives, enjoying good foo...

On the road between Craven Arms and Much Wenlock in Shropshire there are four pubs. One, the Crown Inn, formerly the Hundred House, boasts having a timber over the inglenook fireplace from one of Sir Francis Drake's ships that defeated the Spanish Armada. Used as a court for the Lord of the Manor to try local offenders, it subsequently was used for auctions, inquests, meetings, as well as celebrating events in people's lives, enjoying good foo...

In the mid-1980s I attended a course on the Archaeology of Shropshire in which I studied some of the prehistoric hillforts found in the county. Little did I know how useful this was when I retired to the Clee Hills in the late-2010s. Studying the local Ordnance Survey maps and walking in the hills of Southeast Shropshire I noticed how many had prehistoric sites on the top. Having researched the geology, archaeology and history of the Clee Hil...

Following Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Britain negotiated an agreement with their Soviet ally to supply them with military aid. There was also a secret agreement to bring Soviet agents on the Arctic convoys back to Scotland and facilitate their infiltration into occupied Western Europe. The Special Operations Executive, a top-secret British organisation established under Winston Churchill's order to "set Europe ablaze b...

In the two centuries after the Norman invasion, Britain's population more than tripled. Demand for food meant more land had to be brought under cultivation. As the climate was generally warmer than it is today, it was possible to grow cereals and vegetables on higher land. On the Clee Hills in Shropshire, between Ludlow and Bridgnorth, woods were cleared and the timber used in the construction of new houses. Boulders and rocks were moved from ...

Nobby' Clarke, after leaving Greenwich Hospital School, fought in France and Italy during the First World War, winning a Military Cross. Settling in Bedford, he set up the Low Loading Company in the 1920s. His inventive skills came to the attention of Stuart Macrae, entrusted by the War Office at the beginning of the Second World War in manufacturing explosives. Nobby went on to command a special training school at Brickendonbury Manor, near H...

In the mid-1980s I attended a course on the Archaeology of Shropshire in which I studied some of the prehistoric hillforts found in the county. Little did I know how useful this was when I retired to the Clee Hills in the late-2010s. Studying the local Ordnance Survey maps and walking in the hills of Southeast Shropshire I noticed how many had prehistoric sites on the top. Having researched the geology, archaeology and history of the Clee Hil...

Thomas Telford, the Scottish road and bridge builder, knew enough about rocks to recommend that particularly hard basalt, locally known as dhu stone, which was found on the top of the Clee Hills in Shropshire would make a hard wearing and long lasting road material. The problem was extracting and transporting it. Railway engineers on the Shrewsbury to Ludlow railway successfully found investors and formed the Dhu Stone Quarry Company to constr...

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Built in the 1660s and named the Blue Boar Inn in 1637, this Ludlow pub has served the local community for nearly four hundred years. Local author Bernard O'Connor's 'There's Life in the Blue Boar' includes hundreds of articles from local and national newspapers and extracts from websites which provide a fascinating insight into the life and times of the landladies, landlords, staff and customers of this unique pub. It includes stories of auct...

96-year-old Doreen Roberts is the oldest resident of Bouldon, a hamlet of fourteen houses and a dairy farm at the foot of the Brown Clee in Shropshire. Born in Brighton in 1926, she grew up in London, Birmingham, Guernsey and Weston-super-Mare. She came from a theatrical family but, not having a singing voice like her mother and grandmother, had drawing talent. She studied part-time at the Central London Art School and worked in a book shop a...

Thomas Telford, the Scottish road and bridge builder, knew enough about rocks to recommend that particularly hard basalt, locally known as dhu stone, which was found on the top of the Clee Hills in Shropshire would make a hard wearing and long lasting road material. The problem was extracting and transporting it. Railway engineers on the Shrewsbury to Ludlow railway successfully found investors and formed the Dhu Stone Quarry Company to constr...

When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Elzbieta Zawacka joined the Women's Battalion of the Home Army and worked as an instructor and courier, taking money, messages and reports to members of the Polish resistance in Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark. In November 1942 she was given a mission to take valuable intelligence via France and Spain to Britain. Succeeding in that task, she was parachuted back into Poland to help the resistance fo...

Most people who live in Wales will probably have never heard of Meifod. Maybe they know it as Meivod. Those living in Montgomeryshire will know of this small village, north of Welshpool. Some may even have visited but few will know about its history. Bernard O'Connor's 'Meifod in the News' provides over 200 years of newspaper articles which give insight into the village's geology, archaeology, history, agriculture, quarrying, fishing, educat...