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Image of the Week #22
View of Christ Church and the big old oak tree. Image of the Week #22
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Snowdrops
The snowdrops featured a few weeks ago as Image of the Week #13 are now flowering and are a lovely sight to lift the spirits. Though we are still coughing and spluttering with winter colds! Image of the Week #21 I really enjoy the challenge of capturing the ‘Image of the Week’ every week. It has helped me to see…
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Welshpool Series Part 1: Berriew Street
After taking on board a project like this, you develop a real appreciation of the ‘built heritage’ around you. I generally walk everywhere, which makes it easier to notice old buildings and their small details. As I walk I always try and look up at the buildings I pass. I notice all sorts of things now, which before we took…
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Image of the Week #19
Whilst out in the churchyard this bitterly cold morning (we were bird spotting for the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch), this moss covered gravestone caught my eye. There must be every shade of green here… so beautiful!
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Roll on Spring.
If, like us, you are suffering with the January blues (most of us here are laid up with flu), then this week’s Image of the Week is for you. A sign that Spring is on the way… snowdrops beginning to make their appearance in the graveyard.
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Image of the Week #12
The low winter light enhances the relief on the weathered gravestones.
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Image of the Week #8 Remembrance Day
On this Remembrance Day, we remember Percy Robert, Viscount Clive, who died of wounds received at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. He was only 23, and was a Captain in the Welsh Guards. It was a devastating time for the Earl of Powis and his family, as well as for Welshpool, who lost many sons in World War…
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Air Raid Victims
On this day, September 1st 1940, a family living north of Shrewsbury, suffered a direct hit from a German bomb during WWII, and the victims are buried in the graveyard here at Christ Church. Gravestone located near the front end of the church. Jessie Broxton and her husband William lived at Armstrong Cottage just off Ellesmere Road, Shrewsbury with their…
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Photographs
I have been taking a lot of photographs of the church recently. In particular of the graveyard. While I am outside with the boys some of the Victorian designs of the gravestones really stand out. The slate stones are some of my favourites. The weathered floral imagery is just so beautiful. The pattern of the text ‘In loving memory of’…
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Happy 150th Birthday!
Today marks the 150th Birthday of the 4th Earl of Powis, George Charles Herbert. He was a great benefactor to Christ Church and is buried along side his family just outside the church. He married Lady Violet in 1890 and had three children, two sons and a daughter. Unfortunately both of his sons died young, killed in action in both…
