As I was going through the archives this one kept catching my eye, but for ages I couldn’t see a connection with this month’s Squares theme of bright. Maybe I could sneak it in under bright sunshine I said to myself and it did brighten our morning discovering it, but then I recalled how ‘bright and curious’ we were when we spotted this through an archway on Abbey Foregate in Shrewsbury, Salop.

Hobson, Greenwood & Son have been based here providing transportation (lorries, buses and taxis) for most of the 20th century and all of the 21st century. For a period they even ran a hotel at the entrance to the yard, and it wouldn’t surprise me if they were here in the 19th century. As far as I know they never ran trains but the family had a passion for all types of transportation hence the signal, and if you look carefully you can also see the small gauge railway line. It is always worth being bright and curious on your travels and explorations, you never know what you find!
PS By the way everyone I am pretty much on top of visiting your squares and leaving comments at the moment, so if you have not had a comment from me within 24hrs of your pingback do check your spam. I am almost certainly hiding in there!
It does look like an intriguing place. I can see why you’d want to find out more.
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MrB is a transport fan so even if I hadn’t been intrigued he would have been off exploring!
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😀 You were destined to find out more.
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I love these serendipitous discoveries: nice post! Now, after yesterday’s sharing-fest, I wanted to give you a Bright post all your own. But then I noticed it was Pink …. https://margaret21.com/2021/04/08/calling-all-bright-sparks/
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hee hee that colour pink it gets everywhere!
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Interesting!
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We felt very naughty too, stepping through the archway to look at it all!
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Oh, why not?
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Very curious indeed but I’m not sure I’d like to cross paths with a garage ‘gargoyle’ 🙂
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hee hee, it is rather an unusual emblem isn’t it!
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A great phrase for us all to use, especially if we are feeling hemmed in at the moment. And curiosity is a much better word than nosiness 🙂
And I’ve got something I’ve probably walked past hundreds of times without paying attention. https://travelwithintent.com/2021/04/08/draft-bright-ribbons/
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me nosy never, me curious always!
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Yes, we’ve found all sorts of intriguing things by doing a bit of exploring.
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Why I like to travel slow, more time to go off piste 🙂
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Us too. It’s the only way to go.
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Here are some brightly coloured trees for today.
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always happy to see trees 🙂
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Happy that you liked my trees!
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And then this happened: https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2021/04/08/bright-morning-light/
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Curiouser, and curiouser . . . . . .
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