Boots the Tudor chemist, Pride Hill

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Boots the Tudor chemist, Pride Hill

Image: © Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff Taken: 4 Feb 2010

One of the many shops in the centre of Shrewsbury that appear quite conventional until you look up, then it's a breathtaking vision of half-timbering, pargetting and multi-paned gable windows under a steep-ridged roof. Many of these would have been the houses of merchants who profited from the Welsh wool trade.

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Image Location

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Latitude
52.708759
Longitude
-2.753185