Thursday Shrewsbury Buildings

Thursday and the sun is still out. I am quite impressed. Walking down from Abbey Foregate to the River Severn was nice in the sunshine. However it is so late in the year that the sun is so low that even at noon it seems to spend most of the time behind the buildings. Earlier driving along the M54 and A5 again was lovely with the light and the effect of pockets of mist around the rivers. It was possible to to look out at various points and track the path of the Severn by the ribbons of mist on the Shropshire plain.

Anyway back to this afternoon. Having got to the English Bridge I could see that the water level had dropped even more and that it was worth having a look at the downstream path on the town side. OK as I did not bring my wellies I felt I had legitimate reason not to venture down that way just jet, may be tomorrow, more probably early next week. This was actually taken on the downstream side of the bridge at bottom of the steps, last week I would have been very wet. This week I decided discretion was the better part.

So back upstream again, I went up over the bridge and down the other side. There waiting in the arches was a cormorant sitting on a branch wedged into the bridge. So it was not waiting for me specifically, but I liked the fact that he was there and so I took the picture.

This is the best one of a couple of well OK pictures, I will blame the light and the distance. I could also add in operator error, but I think that may bed taking it a bit too far. As Ian Richardson may well have said, "You may say that, I could not possibly comment".

So I went up stream, I realised that as I had been listening to the Obama acceptance speech which was good, well it ticked my boxes, in the car eating my sandwiches before venturing out, anyway it was latter than I had originally planned so I did not go as far as yesterday.

However in the much brighter light I looked into the town more and without yesterday's distractions saw a couple of buildings, in " a new light". pardon the pun.

The first was I think Bowdler House which I had seen from the city walls and much closer up. When you are up close and personal as it were it does not quite have the look as it does from down by the River. I think there is a Dental practice in the building which does make me want to walk quickly past. further away I think I look at the building and then the contents.

Further on is Shrewsbury Cathedral which I had overlooked in the plethora of places to worship in the town alone.The building itself is mid 19th century, with work being completed in 1856. so it is a comparative new comer in the scheme of Shrewsbury churches.


I took a couple of pictures of the cathedral from the river bank and this is my favourite, though ultimately nothing really stood out. May be it is back to the drawing board and do a bit more learning when it comes to taking pictures of buildings.


Talking of drawing boards I still have not got back to looking at the Website. I suppose It has not generated much interest and there is only so much I can do to it in its present form. I can continue to write this blog as a separate entity and post pictures that I like and have taken either that day or recently or even go back and find a suitable image in the library. Though I don't think that Getty Images has much to worry about.

time for bed, I think and see what tomorrow brings.