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A view taken from The Rotunda.(Bandstand)
Photo taken by Roger Smith
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The flowery banks of the Rea Brook are attractive in late summer. Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council issue leaflets to help walkers and visitor...
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Coracles have been popular in Shropshire for many centuries, although today you will see them used for pleasure rather than as a means of transport...
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This photograph shows the River Severn next to the Quarry. Shropshire rarely has weather that is cold enough to freeze an entire section of the Ri...
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The thickly wooded banks along this quiet section of the River Severn provide ideal cover for the shy Otter. The tree roots also help to stabilise ...
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Shrewsbury is no stranger to flooding as the River Severn rises rapidly after heavy rain. The Photographed by Don Burgess.
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The shops and business in Abbey foregate suffer almost every year when the area floods and their buildings suffer flood damage.
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The Abbey Foregate area of Shrewsbury often floods badly. This is a view of the Abbey from the English Bridge taken during the floods of 2000.
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To the left of the picture you can see people walking the planks to leave (and enter Shrewsbury). These planks are laid down when flood waters hav...
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After the snow comes the thaw, the meltwater filling Rea Brook up to bank height. Photographed by Ian Thompson as part of a slideshow and talk call...
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This bankside Alder is showing signs of suffering from Phytophthera disease. In the next few years this disease could become as prevalent and disa...
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This bank is a man made structure designed to hold back the water of a river in flood. It is doing its job, with the river floodwater on the right,...
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