Clun, the Venice of the Welsh Marches.

In an attempt to attract more visitors to South Shropshire, the powers that be have embarked on a course of enhancing local towns with some of the features of well known tourist attractions. Local councils were asked to submit a list of well known destinations and the results were pulled out of a tombola and distributed accordingly.

We were lucky that we got Venice, Bishop's Castle got Paris and are erecting a monumental steel tower using old scaffold poles. Nearby Craven Arms got Giza and have begun a full size pyramid building programme using straw bales.

Regrettably, we are no longer receiving E.U. funding and so the preliminary work is not yet complete. Hopefully.it will all be sorted by May when the visitors start arriving.

 

The work is still ongoing at the visitors car park and the Tourist Reception Centre.

 

If the warnings issued to Tenbury this morning are correct we may have drawn Atlantis

 

The footbridge over the Clun Canal is now of course redundant and we are awaiting delivery of the the new Chinese made Gondolers.

 

Ha ha
You can always get up the castle and sit it out
Assume the Teme has flooded at Ludlow too with the assistance of the Clun
Ony will also be adding to the flood

 

The view from the bridge at Tenbury
Flooding 'risk to life' in Worcestershire

 

The castle isn't finished yet, we are still waiting for an estimate from the builders for the roof but Everest are doing the double glazing for the windows. Good builders are very hard to find or are booked up two years ahead, it is one of the few bad things about living out in the sticks,

 

ha ha
yes mate I know it well

 

Maybe you need some Chinese builders in to finish that castle, probably provide the quote at half the price .......

TD

 

Tennis and bowling club Ludlow
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I was meant to be going to Ludlow this morning for the antique flea market, often the source of many interesting items.

 

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as you know during the week they do have a few antique stalls so worth a look later in the week.

one of the book stall chaps always has a number of the Osprey books which are a bit on the expensive side but you can always knock him down a bit

 

See we even have poles for the gondolas to tie up at
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I hope that the Regal isn't flooded. I saw Robert Plant and his new band there early last year. The theatre had just been refurbished.

 

The Bridge Hotel just down the road has been flooded. It once employed the Beatles as a supporting act to a supporting act for the magnificent fee of £5. I believe that Plant and Jagger also made early appearances there.

During WW2 the Regal was decorated by Italian POWs

 

Getting unhumorous -we now have a lady missing in the floodwater and about a hundred being evacuated from their homes. The flood has hit places in the town that were safe in floods going back to ER I's time. I hate to quote that massacrest of the ear but The times they are a changin

 

Indeed, admit that the waters around you have grown. I hope that the lady is found safe and well.

 

I fear that this may be a vain hope. Over a number of years a number of people have been lost in the same area when the river was in spate, including in 1918 a German POW trying to return to his camp after work on a local farm.

 

Teme still high in Ludlow flooding on road has gone