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Sabrina Boat comes to the rescue of the Shrewsbury Guided tours.
Shropshire Star
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26/04/2024
The guided walking tours were due to finish but the people behind Sabrina the Boat are taking up the reigns. We find out more and learn a few things about some of the buildings and Mick Jagger in wood.
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00:00
Hello Dillon, good morning.
00:02
Good morning, how are you?
00:04
I'm alright matey.
00:05
A face we recognise normally on water.
00:08
The Sabrina the boat.
00:09
That's right.
00:10
We've switched to land.
00:11
Yeah, and landlocked Dillon today.
00:13
Yeah.
00:14
Dilwyn.
00:15
What's going on today then buddy?
00:17
We've got a few people behind you.
00:18
I can see a few laminates, a couple of town maps.
00:21
What's happening?
00:22
So, as of next Wednesday, 1st May,
00:25
we're taking over from doing the guided tours around the town.
00:29
Yeah.
00:30
The historic tours.
00:31
The council can't do them anymore
00:34
and we're sort of keen to make sure it continues.
00:37
It's very, I mean Shrewsbury's such a special place
00:40
and it's one of those places you can walk round and think
00:42
oh that's a pretty building,
00:43
but there's so many stories isn't there?
00:45
So they're kind of quite important aren't they really
00:47
to keep these going?
00:48
Oh it's amazing really.
00:50
I mean we've got 1100 years of history
00:52
and there's lots of little cheeky little stories and statues
00:57
and if you look up you see all sorts of things
00:59
you wouldn't normally do when you're wandering around.
01:02
You know the tour guides really highlight these things.
01:05
So when will the tours be then?
01:07
How does it work?
01:08
So they're going to run every single day
01:10
from 2.15 and they're 90 minute tours.
01:14
We're going to meet here
01:15
and then we've got a number of different routes
01:17
but it depends on the theme of the tour really.
01:19
But the daily tours will be a snapshot of Shrewsbury really.
01:25
And do people need to pre-book
01:26
or can they just turn up here if there's a tour issue?
01:28
They do need to pre-book
01:29
and they can do that at the moment via the Sabrina website.
01:32
Got you, great stuff.
01:34
Right we'll go and say hello to some of the guides.
01:37
Hello guides and skippers, how you doing?
01:39
Good thank you very much.
01:41
Looking forward to this.
01:43
Well the sun shines on the righteous,
01:45
we're all here.
01:47
Sir, a few nice features in the square,
01:49
I can see a nice building behind us.
01:51
I'm going to test your knowledge now,
01:52
shall we have a tootle over?
01:54
Is he any good?
01:56
Right, come on then, let's test him.
01:58
Right, so what is this building?
02:00
I know it's pretty, but what is it?
02:02
The Old Market Hall,
02:03
built in the latter half of Queen Elizabeth's reign.
02:07
So 8 years after the Armada.
02:09
The extraordinary thing about it in many ways
02:11
is that it's still upright
02:12
because it's a boggy plain here
02:15
and when they put the lift in
02:17
they needed to go down 6 metres to get to Bedrock.
02:21
So they floated it.
02:23
If you look at it,
02:25
apart from the fact it's still coming,
02:27
it also has got
02:29
one of only two statues in the country
02:32
in the niche of Edward IV's father,
02:35
Richard Duke of York,
02:37
who was killed at Wakefield.
02:39
And it's also got the three loggerheads,
02:41
the three leopards,
02:42
the emblem of both Shrewsbury
02:44
and of the county of Shropshire.
02:47
Oh, that's where the leopards come into it.
02:49
That's where the leopards come into it.
02:50
And you know they're leopards because they're big cats
02:52
and they're looking at you.
02:53
You know what?
02:54
I know that symbol
02:56
but I'm not sure I knew there were three leopards.
02:58
Yeah.
02:59
Any significance to them being leopards?
03:02
Not that I know of.
03:03
Yeah.
03:04
No, I mean they needed an emblem.
03:05
Yeah.
03:06
Got it.
03:07
And this building now,
03:08
is it a cinema now?
03:10
It was a coroner's court.
03:11
Yeah.
03:12
It was converted 15, 20 years ago
03:15
to a cinema and coffee shop.
03:17
Yeah.
03:18
Extremely fine cinema.
03:20
And your own personal passion for Shrewsbury,
03:23
where did that come from then?
03:25
It's just got an awful lot of history.
03:27
It has, hasn't it?
03:28
It's full of stories.
03:29
And full of people who've become famous
03:32
in their own right
03:33
and have done great things for the country.
03:34
Yeah.
03:35
And if you include Charles Darwin for the world.
03:38
Yeah.
03:39
Even though he didn't much like Shrewsbury.
03:41
And it's...
03:42
Oh, right.
03:43
Okay, okay.
03:44
As soon as he could.
03:45
Oh, right.
03:46
That's interesting.
03:48
Yeah.
03:49
Good point.
03:50
Yeah, he did.
03:51
I mean, it isn't just for touristy stories.
03:53
There's a lot of locals
03:54
that could do one of these tours
03:55
and I'm sure they'd be very much enlightened
03:57
by the end of it.
03:58
Yes.
03:59
So any particular favourite spot in the town for you
04:02
that's kind of picture perfect?
04:03
Oh, St Mary's Church.
04:04
St Mary's, yeah.
04:05
Where they've got the arrow marks on the side.
04:08
Yeah.
04:09
On the south side.
04:10
Oh, wow.
04:11
I didn't know that.
04:12
Okay, interesting.
04:13
And the other thing that's useful
04:14
and you could see it now if you wanted.
04:15
Yeah.
04:17
What people don't do enough.
04:18
Yeah.
04:19
It's the same with me.
04:20
Is look up.
04:21
Yeah.
04:22
You can see they've got...
04:23
You can only see three of them from here.
04:24
They've got statues of the members of the household.
04:26
Is that the...
04:27
Ah, the black and white timber.
04:28
So it was an old mansion house.
04:30
Well, it was...
04:31
No, a mansion of Jack Jones.
04:33
Yeah.
04:34
And he did so well he bought the one next door.
04:36
Ah.
04:37
So he was a draper.
04:38
That's where all the money comes from.
04:39
Yeah, yeah.
04:40
And that's statues of who on there you say?
04:41
Who are the statues of on the top?
04:43
Oh, they're members of the family.
04:44
Oh, wow.
04:45
That's one way to be remembered, isn't it?
04:47
Yeah.
04:48
Might get my own little statue
04:49
for my little two-bed on Purton.
04:51
Well, thank you, sir.
04:52
That's right.
04:53
That little moment's been quite enlightening for me.
04:54
Thank you very much.
04:56
Maggie, Maggie Love,
04:57
you're going to be one of the guides there, aren't you?
04:58
I am.
04:59
And we were just having a little chinwag
05:01
and go on, tell us...
05:03
Mick Jagger lives in his well in Shrewsbury.
05:05
He certainly does.
05:06
Just fill us in.
05:08
In 1990,
05:10
the Borough Council allowed a local carpenter
05:13
to replace the tie beam up there
05:15
with a wonderful installation and carving of the River Severn
05:18
with even motorbikes on it.
05:20
But what's glorious is the jetted window here,
05:22
the supports underneath
05:24
are based on Mick Jagger's face.
05:27
That's fantastic.
05:29
I thought I was observant.
05:32
I shall never walk down this alley again
05:34
without thinking of the Jagger.
05:36
Take a look at Maggie Thatcher.
05:38
Oh, wow, yeah, Maggie Thatcher as well.
05:41
You'll see the dragon
05:42
that's on the dragon beam in Rouse Hill.
05:44
I know that, yeah, yeah.
05:46
And the reason why it's there
05:47
is because the actual structure at that point
05:49
is a dragon beam.
05:51
Ah, I always wondered why it's a dragon.
05:54
So the type of joint is called a dragon beam.
05:56
Ah, OK, well, this is fascinating.
05:59
OK, so on the front part of the building,
06:02
again on the tie beam in the centre there,
06:04
you've got a medallion.
06:05
And in that medallion,
06:07
you've got the carvings
06:09
of the two heads back to back to each other.
06:12
Yeah.
06:13
So that's Heseldorn and Maggie Thatcher
06:15
who were back to back over the Poltacs,
06:17
which have got the flag saying Poltacs,
06:19
again, 1990.
06:21
Wow.
06:22
And then you've got the other one
06:23
which has got the Selopian coat of arms on.
06:26
Well, thank you, Maggie.
06:27
My pleasure.
06:28
This and more is what people can learn
06:30
on the Shrewsbury Tours.
06:31
Thank you, my dear, thank you.
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