I thought I would have something to say today. I am spending the weekend in Shrewsbury with family and believed that something worthy of comment would happen – but it doesn’t seem to have. Maybe I should comment about Yahoo’s introduction of a Firefox toolbar or the fact that Ask Jeeves just bought Bloglines but I can’t seem to find the right words.
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I didn’t want this site to become full of my photographs, but I couldn’t resist posting another one from my weekend in Shrewsbury. This picture isn’t as good, but it’s of Shrewsbury Abbey – at the bottom of Abbey Foregate, just before you reach the English Bridge. I passed this place every day on my way into college as I was growing up, and it’s a sight that always makes me think of being a teenager. [Shrewsbury Abbey].
Sadly, I could only find one other picture of Shrewsbury at Flickr and that turns out to be a different Shrewsbury!
I love the colours in this picture. Although it was taken early in the morning (at least, early for a Sunday), the colours are fantastic. What’s more, I took it with my Treo’s mobile camera, which isn’t the greatest camera in the world. According to Shropshire Online, “Lord Hill’s Column, outside Shirehall, is one of Shrewsbury’s striking landmarks. The tallest Doric column in the world, it commemorates the First Viscount Lord Hill, who lived from 1772 to 1842.” [Lord Hill’s Mighty Tower]
Anybody reading this site will know that I seem to have lots of opinions on urban transportation. One of my favourite visits of recent weeks was to the London Transport Museum, which is housed in an old flower market at Covent Garden. I thought the place was great, but then I read about the New York Transit Museum which is actually housed in a historic 1936 subway station in Brooklyn Heights, New York. How cool is that?
This weekend I was visiting my parents in Shropshire, and we went to Llangollen in North Wales for the day. I couldn’t get anybody to agree to ride the Llangollen Railway – which is part of the British Rail network from Ruabon to Barmouth in North Wales which was closed on 1st April 1968. It would have been a good way to spend a Saturday, so perhaps I will next time I visit.
My parents live in Shrewsbury, which this year has been a little protected from winter flooding by some new flood defences. There seems to be some dispute about the effectiveness of the defences. If you look at some of these pictures on BBC Shropshire’s site you would have thought that nothing had changed. I am not always glad to be living away from the river, but at this time of year, I certainly am.