Shropshire FHS February 2013 Monthly Meeting

Tue, 19/02/2013 - 19:00

Venue - The Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury SY2 6ND
Subject - "
Hitting the headlines in 18th Century Shrewsbury"
Speaker -
John Butterworth
How Thomas Wood, who founded the Shrewsbury Chronicle in 1772, the fourth oldest weekly paper still going in the UK today, and how Mr Robert Lawrence of The Lion Hotel, Shrewsbury, made Shrewsbury one of the top towns in the country in the late 18th Century.

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