Name: Newspapers and Networks HS4/1
Start: 2024-08-18T16:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-08-18T18:30:00+01:00
Location: Bear Steps Art Gallery and Medieval Hall

$Newspapers and Networks HS4\/1$

Join us for History Series Four, this is our forth year where we dive deep into the fascinating historical events and figures of Shrewsbury
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History Series Four

Come join us for our fourth year looking at Shrewsbury through time at the Bear Steps Art Gallery and Medieval Hall.

Newspapers and Networks

The development of the printed word and the start of the Shrewsbury Chronicle; the development of turnpike trusts and the beginning of the stagecoach business in Shrewsbury; the rise and decline of Shrewsbury’s river trade; the development of the Shrewsbury Canal; the coming of the railways to Shrewsbury and Shrewsbury’s lost railway stations.