Road trip England: Part 2

Hey folks, time to upload those other photos of our England Holiday...
As we travelled north and left the Cotswolds behind us, we decided to bypass Stratford upon Avon completely and head straight up to Shrewsbury and Ironbridge Gorge...

1st up, Shrewsbury... I had very high expectations of a stunning and perfectly preserved tudor quarter, with wobbly black and white buildings everywhere and stuck together, but instead, those Black and white buildings (some indeed wobbly) were dotted here and there around the town, in-between other more modern buildings... and the effect wasn't as enchanting as first dreamed up. However once reality set in and we walked around the town properly, we found we liked Shrewsbury very very much... with it's 'bit of tudor here, bit more there', cute hidden tudor alleyways ('shuts'), lovely parks and and winding Severn river. The home of Darwin too, the war poet Wilfred Owen, and the burial place of the not so loved Ebenezer Scrooge.

L-R: Tudor Shrewsbury...

Famous 'Shrewsburians': Darwin and Scrooge (from the 1984 version of the movie)

Also, while in the area, we also checked out 'Acton Farm' a Victorian working farm.
This working farm still uses Victorian farming machinery and methods and is the site of filming for the fantastic BBC History series 'Victorian Farm'... Hopefully it has been shown in Oz, if not, stay tuned. It was worth checking out anyway.

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Next up: English Science and History come alive on "Bloke's Blog"- coming soon ...