Some Thursday morning Shropshire nostalgia.
A good turnout at Forton Church for the funeral of the local squire in 1906.
If you look closely you can see that some folk came to pay their respects pushing prams, and others arrived on bicycles, some of which can be seen leaning against the wall. It's interesting to note that it clearly was not mandatory for women mourners to wear black. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he was, according to the obituary printed in the Wellington Journal & Shrewsbury News, highly popular in all circles of society.
"The estate was kept up at great expense, his gardens were noted for their beauty, and nowhere were there better homesteads, buildings, and cottages, while he did very much to induce tenants to rear good stock and grow the best of product."
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