It Happened in Shropshire

<p><em style=color: rgba(119 119 119 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>It Happened in Shropshire</em><span style=color: rgba(119 119 119 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is a vibrant and compelling account of the county's diverse heritage; its heroes its battles its discoveries its crimes.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(119 119 119 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Bob Burrows's highly readable prose transports the reader through time racing across the landscape of Shropshire's past from the woolly mammoths of 10000 BC the Roman occupation of Wroxeter and the Battle of Shrewsbury to the Industrial Revolution and to the sporting achievements and murderous exploits of recent years.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(119 119 119 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The book celebrates Salopians of national renown such as Charles Darwin Clive of India Wilfred Owen and Percy Thrower as well as commemorating the accidents and disasters of:</span></p><p><br></p><ol><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=color: rgba(119 119 119 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Shropshire's ghostly past...and present</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=color: rgba(119 119 119 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The legends of 'Mad Jack' Mytton and the charismatic outlaw Sir Humphrey Kynaston</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=color: rgba(119 119 119 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A celebration of Salopian sporting champions: Ian Woosnam Sandy Lyle Richie Woodhall Billy Wright</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=color: rgba(119 119 119 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Shropshire's notorious and also its heroic vicars</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=color: rgba(119 119 119 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The 'Black Panther' and other Salopian murderers exposed</span></li></ol>