It Happened in Shropshire - Softcover

It Happened in Shropshire is an invaluable, readable and informative guide to the county and the heroes and villains who made it what it is today. --Shropshire Life, March 2010

A compelling new account of the countys diverse heritage. --Great British Life, March 2010

Highly readable and well illustrated with black and white photographs, the book is a fascinating portrait of life through the years in our neighbouring English county. --County Times, June 2010

"It Happened in Shropshire is a vibrant and compelling account of the county's diverse heritage; its heroes, its battles, its discoveries, its crimes. Bob Burrows's highly readable prose transports the reader through time, racing across the landscape of Shropshire's past from the woolly mammoths of 10,000 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. 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: Shropshire's ghostly past...and present The legends of 'Mad Jack' Mytton and the charismatic outlaw Sir Humphrey Kynaston A celebration of Salopian sporting champions: Ian Woosnam, Sandy Lyle, Richie Woodhall, Billy Wright Shropshire's notorious and also its heroic vicars The 'Black Panther' and other Salopian murderers exposed"