A guide, descriptive and historical, through the Town of Shrewsbury

August, 1855.

W. WOOLRICH’S
COMMERCIAL DINING AND GENERAL
Refreshment Rooms,
WITHIN TWO MINUTES WALK OF THE RAILWAY STATION,
On the same side at the Royal Free Grammar School,

CASTLE STREET, SHREWSBURY.

The above Establishment possesses all the advantages, comforts and convenience of an Inn and General Boarding House, rendering every accommodation and great facility to commercial travellers and visitors, being situate at equal distances between the Market and Railway Station, in the immediate vicinity of the Castle, the Grammar School, and St. Mary’s Church, three of the principal ornaments of the town.

→ AN ORDINARY EVERY DAY AT ONE O’CLOCK.

Prime Shropshire Ale.—Well-aired Beds.

T. HARRIS,
Wholesale and Retail Confectioner,

Corner of the School Lane, Castle Street, Shrewsbury,

Manufacturer of the celebrated Shrewsbury Cakes, Bride Cakes,
and every kind of Biscuits and Confectionery.

Dealer in British Wines, Fruits, Potted Meat, &c. &c.

A comfortable Private Room is kept to accommodate visitors wishing
to sit down and partake of any of the above articles.

HERBERT’S
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
LINEN AND WOOLLEN DRAPERY,
Silk Mercery, Hosiery, Haberdashery,
AND

GLOVE ESTABLISHMENT,
PRIDE HILL, SHREWSBURY.

A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
MANTLES, MILLINERY, BABY LINEN,
STRAW BONNETS AND STAYS.

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Gloves, Ribbons, Flowers, Blonds, Lace, and every other article
in the Drapery and Millinery Trade.

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UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS IN GREAT VARIETY.

A great variety of Widows’ Caps always on hand.

Funerals completely Furnished, Family Mourning, &c.

HIGH STREET, SHREWSBURY,

Sole Agent for the sale of

ALLSOPP’S EAST INDIA, PALE, AND
OTHER BURTON ALES,
REID & Co’s SUPERIOR LONDON STOUT
PORTERS, AND
GUINNESS, SONS & Co.’s DUBLIN STOUT,

In Wood and Bottle, Wholesale and Retail.

Bull’s Head Commercial Inn, & Posting House,
CASTLE GATES, SHREWSBURY.

ROBERT GLOVER

Respectfully invites the attention of Commercial Gentlemen, Farmers, Dealers and others, to the above old established Inn, where they will find superior accommodation combined with moderate charges.

Post Horses, Flys, Gigs, &c. on the shortest notice.

Good Stabling.  Lock-up Coach Houses.  Well-aired Beds.
An Ordinary every Saturday at One o’clock.
Observe—BULL’S HEAD INN, adjoining the Railway Station, within
One Minutes walk of the Cattle Market.

The late J. F. M. Dovaston, Esq.  M.A.

In 8vo. sd.  Price 8d.

THREE POPULAR LECTURES; ONE on Natural History, and TWO on National Melody, By John F. M. Dovaston, Esq. M.A.

Published by John Davies, 15, High Street, Shrewsbury.

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
WOOLLEN CLOTH
Establishment,
MARKET SQUARE,
SHREWSBURY.

J. A. MEARA, PROPRIETOR.

13, HIGH STREET, SHREWSBURY.

THOMAS ANDREW,
HOSIER, GLOVER, AND SHIRT MAKER.

BERLIN AND FANCY REPOSITORY.

Agent to Messrs. H. J. & D. Nicoll, Regent Street, London.

41, HIGH STREET, SHREWSBURY.

CHARLES J. HANMER,
BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER.

A large assortment of Ladies’, Gentlemen’s, and Children’s
Boots and Shoes on Sale, for ready money.

Agent to the Plate Glass Assurance Company.

“Whose honour’d name the inventive city owns,
Rendering through Britain’s isle Salopia’s praises known.”

Are Manufactured by
DANIEL DAVIES,
CONFECTIONER AND BRIDE CAKE MAKER,
Castle Gates, adjoining the Entrance to the Railway Station, Shrewsbury.
RICH BRIDE CAKES,
Always on hand, or made to order, at the shortest notice.

MR. THOMAS EDWARDS,

Auctioneer, Appraiser, and Valuer,

MARDOL HEAD, SHREWSBURY.

MR. C. J. ARBLASTER,

Dispensing and Family Chemist,
CASTLE STREET, SHREWSBURY,

(Within two minutes walk from the Railway Station.)

EDWARD EDWARDS,
HOSIER,
Haberdasher, and General Small Ware Dealer,

58, MARDOL, SHREWSBURY.

Crochet Cotton, and Berlin Wools.

Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Waterproof Tweed Cloaks and Coats.

MRS. LONGMORE,
BAZAAR & FANCY REPOSITORY,
18, HIGH STREET,
SHREWSBURY.

TIMOTHY POWELL,
BAKER AND CONFECTIONER,
58, MARDOL, SHREWSBURY.

Fancy Biscuits of every description 6d. to 2s. per lb.

A great variety of Confectionery, 1s. to 3s. 6d. „

Genuine Shrewsbury Cakes ... 1s. 8d. per box.

Orders executed at the shortest notice.

MRS.  HORTON’S
Millinery and Baby Linen
ESTABLISHMENT,
19, HIGH STREET, SHREWSBURY.

OPPOSITE THE LION HOTEL,
WYLE COP, SHREWSBURY.

CLOCKS AND WATCHES of every description, made or
obtained to older, cleaned and repaired, on the shortest notice.

CHURCH, TURRET, & HOUSE CLOCKS
KEPT IN A GOOD GOING STATE, AT PER ANNUM.

GOLD WEDDING RINGS.

R. STEPHENS,

BOOT AND SHOE ESTABLISHMENT,
MARDOL HEAD, SHREWSBURY.

Register Office for Families and Servants, conducted by
Mrs. Stephens, Mardol Head, Shrewsbury.

AGENT FOR
THE TIMES FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
Plate and other Glass Insured against Breakage.

E. ROBERTS,

TAILOR AND DRAPER,
SHOPLATCH, SHREWSBURY,
OPPOSITE THE GEORGE HOTEL.

MARKET STREET,
SHREWSBURY,

Guano, Seed, and Coal Merchant,
AGENT FOR
LAWES’ PATENT SUPER-PHOSPHATE OF LIME,
DEALER IN LIME, SALT, LINSEED CAKE,
BANGOR SLATE, BROSELY TILE, &c.

DEPÔTS,
Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Stations, Salop, and
the Stations on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway.

F. H. WORTH,

(FORMERLY ACTON AND WORTH,)

COACH BUILDER,
OPPOSITE WELSH BRIDGE, SHREWSBURY.
HERALDRY,
HATCHMENTS AND BANNERS.
COACH AND ORNAMENTAL PAINTER.

A FLORA
OF
SHROPSHIRE,

By the Rev. W. A. LEIGHTON, B.A., F.B.S.E.

We cannot too strongly recommend it to the notice of our readers.  For though as a local Flora, it professes to treat only of the plants of a single county, that county produces more than half the number of species of flowering plants indigenous to the Kingdom.  The descriptions are unusually full and carefully drawn up.  We have good ground for saying that the Flora of Shropshire should be in the hands of every one who feels interested in the botanical productions of the British Isles.—Phytologist.

We look upon the appearance of this work as being a great step in advance in the progress of British indigenous botany—for although it is professedly confined to the description of the plants of a single county, yet as clearly shewing the incorrectness of the idea “that a New Flora in the true sense or the term has become impossible,”—it is indispensable to every botanist who desires to obtain a thorough knowledge of our native plants.—Jardine’s Annals of Natural History.

Highly interesting work.  The “Index to the Localities,” where each plant may be found in Shropshire, is very elaborate.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.

We were struck with the very correct manner in which he (Mr. Leighton) has systematically arranged, the perspicuous accuracy with which he has described, and the discriminating tact with which he has distinguished all and every of our Salopian flowering herbs and trees; the whole interspersed frequently with their medicinal and chemical powers, ancient and modern customs, local anecdotes, scraps of poetry and fanciful illustrations.  Works of this kind, though learned, are too often dry and monotonous; but as regards this, we may truly say to the botanist—indocti discant, et ament meminisse periti; and we may assure general readers of every description, particularly those of Shropshire, that, though lacking nothing of learning or science, Mr. Leighton has, with much taste and fancy, contrived to make his Flora “a perpetual flow of nectar’d sweets, where no crude surfeit reigns.”—News.

Carefully and critically executed.—Athenæum.

Shrewsbury: John Davies 15, High Street.  London: W. Pamplin, 45, Frith Street, Soho Square.

A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF GLASS SHADES.

ORDERS EXECUTED AND ARTICLES MATCHED

With the greatest possible promptitude.

AGENT FOR THE
United Kingdom Temperance and General Provident Institution,
39, Moorgate Street, London.

LONDON HAT WAREHOUSE.

J. G. SAUNDERS,
(Late Wilding,)
33, HIGH STREET, SHREWSBURY.

Samuel Butler, D.D. Bp. of Lichfield.

PORTRAIT OF THE RIGHT REVEREND SAMUEL BUTLER, D.D. [late] Lord Bishop of Lichfield, Painted by Thomas Phillips, R.A., Engraved by S. Cousins, A.R.A.

Shrewsbury: John Davies, 15, High Street.

TAILOR AND HABIT
Maker,
37, HIGH STREET,
SHREWSBURY.