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  • Newport High Street in 1838 by Henry Ziegler
    September 27th, 2022 in Blog, Local History Links, Newport Shropshire history, Newport Then and Now, News

    We have Caroline Davies of Davies, White & Perry to thank for preserving a wonderful watercolour of Newport High Street painted in 1838. It is fortunate that, not long after the painting was completed, a local person identified several of the characters and trades shown. The view is looking northwards towards the church.   The painting is by Henry Bryan Ziegler (1798–1874). He was a British artist, known as a landscape and portrait painter. He studied under John Varley, honed his…

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  • Welcome to the Society!
    March 17th, 2010 in Local History Links

    New Life for the Victoria County History Linda Fletcher, the Society’s Archivist, went to a meeting of the newly revived Victorian County History group at Shropshire Archives on 27th February. Historians will be researching and writing up Wem’s history in the next couple of years, in order to publish a VCH “short” (a single place study) of Wem, and after that it will probably be the turn of “Newport and the Weald Moors”. V C H was founded in 1899 and…

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