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Shrewsbury Flower Show 2011
Monday 15 August, 2011
News Brief

Flowers and a Quarry Mystery


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Its one of our “must do” summer events, a day at the Shrewsbury Flower Show. Especially so this year as Specialist Aggregates were delighted to have supplied recycled crushed shells to Mike Russell’s “Seaside Garden”.

The site of the annual event at the town’s Quarry Park just begged for further investigation – where was the quarry? When was it worked? And what was the stone used for?

The first question was easy; the old quarry is in the centre of the park and was transformed between 1875 and 1879 creating a sunken garden known as The Dingle.

The trail then goes cold – Rocque's map of Shrewsbury dated 1746 clearly shows a quarry within a park area set out with avenues of trees. Intriguingly there are no paths from the workings or evidence of spoil heaps perhaps suggesting that the quarry had long been abandoned.

The nearby Town Walls may provide a clue. Could the area have been worked for stone during the numerous phases of building the town’s fortifications during the twelfth to fourteenth centuries? It may help to explain the absence of spoil, whilst dressed stone would have been used for facing, the walls would have been infilled with rubble.

The quarry is of a considerable size and it is likely that up to half a million tonnes of stone (back of event programme calculation!) were won from the area so whoever created it had a substantial purpose!

Perhaps I should just stop thinking and enjoy the floral spectacle! Our images show detail of Mike's Seaside Garden water feature together with spectacular carpet bedding in The Dingle


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Shrewsbury Flower Show 2011
Shrewsbury Flower Show 2011
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