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🎶 Never going to fall for
(Grit salt bin) walks beside me
(Grit salt bin) walks on by me
(Grit salt bin) gets me to the church on time 🎶

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Wellington #Shropshire 💛💒
We are on Church Street in Wellington, where a yellow Broxap grit bin sits alongside the Lych Gate (the town's Great War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1922). In the background, the familiar outline of All Saints parish church can be seen. Completed in 1795, it is at least the third building to have stood on the site, which lies at the centre of what is possibly Shropshire's oldest town. In Telford and Wrekin Borough, all grit bins have their own unique reference number, which in this case is W.67! You can discover all of the area's grit bins by following the link to this handy interactive map: https://www.telford.gov.uk/roadworks-transport-and-streets/streets-and-roads/being-prepared-for-the-winter/grit-bins/
December 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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🎶 And see how his face glows: it's a grit bin! What a surprise. It's a big grit bin! What a big surprise. It's a red grit bin! What a red surprise. Ooooh, what a surprise! 🎶

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Wellington #Shropshire 🟥♥️
Today, we're on the junction of Appledore Gardens and Wrekin Road in the historic east Shropshire market town of Wellington, where we find a vanishingly rare red Bonar Rotaform grit bin (a long-defunct, former Sheffield-based manufacturer that ceased trading around 2002).
December 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Coming in 2026 ..

#sharethelove #forthecurious #season4 #sygigs #shrewsbury #shropshire #livemusic
December 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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The Daily Record: sixty years old today 🎉 Nothing to say that hasn't been said a 1001 times already but, blimey, what an album this is 💥 Listening to John enter his imperial phase, and George's emergence as a genuine songwriting force never gets old. 10/10

#TheBeatles #RubberSoul 🎂
Cover photo of Rubber Soul by the Beatles.
December 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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🚨 OK, friends and followers 🚨 Here's a #GritSaltBinMonday challenge for you (and you can blame @shroppiemon.bsky.social for this!): can you change one letter of a band or artist name and make them grit-bin-tastic? I'll start us off...

Siouxsie and the Binshees 😕

Apologies in advance 🙏
A green grit salt bin on a roadside verge in Little Ness.
December 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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🎶 Walking down your street.
With a love that I can't hide. Oh
I've got one thing on my mind. Yeah
I'll even sacrifice my pride (ooh, I want grit). 🎶

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Grinshill #Shropshire 💛
This week, we're back in the north Shropshire village of Grinshill again, where the now familiar curves of a yellow Glasdon grit bin can be seen in the foreground of a shady wayside verge. This isn't any verge, though. Oh no! For it's located at the junction of High Street and Sandy Lane, which - on this sunny late autumn afternoon - was closed for roadworks. Consequently, in the middle ground, closure signs, traffic cones, and the bonnet of a commercial vehicle can also be viewed. In the background, on the left, the junction of the continuation of Sandy Lane (they're all sandy round here, you see) can also be viewed, on its way to All Saints church.
December 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Frustrating. The first 45 saw some of our most enterprising play of the season (and a superb Luca Hoole strike) but our poor ball retention throughout came back to haunt us in the second term as our attempts at game management floundered in the face of our opponents direct onslaught.

#Salop 🔵🟠
Scenes of reflection just after the final whistle at Croud Meadow, where Shrewsbury Town were held to a 3-3 draw by Gillingham despite twice taking a two goal lead.
November 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Priest's door (with twelfth century ironwork) at St Mary's #Edstaston

#AdoorableThursday 🚪
#Shropshire
Priest's door with dogtooth carving and twelfth century ironwork at St Mary's church, Edstaston - one of the most complete Romanesque buildings in Shropshire and a 'must' for church-crawlers everywhere!
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Light lunch in the Kitchen @ The Castle. Would recommend ✅

#Whittington #Shropshire 🏰🍽️
Whittington Castle is a ruined 13th century keep in north Shropshire. The Kitchen @ The Castle at, wait for it, Whittington Castle. Pro tip: if you're going to the cafe, you don't need to pay the £2 parking charge, but you will need to type your rego on the screen inside the restaurant. I went for a smoked salmon, cream cheese and spinach panini, with salad and chips. Fresh as, and would recommend ✅ The soundtrack was provided by a random selection by the Beatles, which included some very deep cuts, so ✅✅ from me!
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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The Daily Record: if you're going to release an album with song titles like Running Around The White Picket Fence, Smother It In Honey and Maps To Help You Lose Your Way it better be good. This is VERY GOOD. One of the great Australian guitar bands of the last 30 years 🔥

#BluebottleKiss #Patient 🍯
The cover of Patient, Bluebottle Kiss' third album from 1999. Here's an interview from 2022 with band leader (and principal songwriter) Jamie Hutchings on the occasion of the record's re-release: https://themusic.com.au/features/bluebottle-kiss-patient-reissue-feature/IcY5NTQ3Njk/10-10-22 and the album itself: https://bluebottlekiss.bandcamp.com/album/patient-2022-remaster
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
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You’ve gotta be quick mon
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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🎶 It's the end of the grit as we know it 🎶 Bin dereliction at Raven Meadows in Shrewsbury town centre. Sad.

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Shrewsbury #Shropshire 💛🙁
A sad, neglected and thoroughly vandalised grit bin sits forlornly at the bottom of a flight of steps in the environs of Shrewsbury Bus Station at Raven Meadows. Remember people: a grit bin is for life, not just for winter ✊
November 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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I had a trip to #Coalbrookdale Community Centre this afternoon to watch Ocean with David Attenborough at the bi-weekly Gorge Film Club. Stunning cinematography and a profound message of hope for the future of our seas. Very highly recommended ✅

#Ocean 🎥
Film poster of Ocean with David Attenborough. Coalbrookdale and Ironbridge Community Centre, which hosts the Gorge Film Club every other Monday afternoon.
November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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One from the back lanes of All Stretton
#GritSaltBinMonday
A grit salt bin in a lane in All Stretton. The sunlight is partly shining on it.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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🎶 Stay on these roads, we will grit - I know 🎶 Primed and ready to provide assistance on an icy stretch just outside Yeaton 💪

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Yeaton #Shropshire 💛
An old-style Glasdon grit bin (I think; it's the knuckle-and-rod hinge that gives it away 😉) sitting on a grass verge in a hollow on the edge of Yeaton, a small village near Baschurch in north Shropshire.
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Beautiful skies over the Shire this afternoon 🌤️

#OldWoods #Shropshire 🥶🚴
Herringbone skies over the Shrewsbury-Chester railway line at the site of the former halt at Old Woods in north Shropshire.
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Low winter sun on the River Perry at #Yeaton this afternoon:

#Shropshire 🌤️🚴🥶
The River Perry (a tributary of the Severn running through northwest Shropshire) photographed from an overbridge on the minor road between Yeaton and Grafton.
November 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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The Daily Record: ahoy NZ Indie fans! Here's an interesting curio from the hallowed halls of Fog City Enterprises: Robert the Record by, erm, Robert! Guitar, drum and bass-heavy Post-Punk reigns here, with a sound that's somewhere between the Fall and Gordons to my ears... 1/2 🧵

#RobertTheRecord 🥝
Cover of Robert the Record by Robert. The album, originally released in a limited run of 500 back in 1986, has recently been reissued by Bunkerpop, and more details can be found here: https://www.fusetronsound.com/products/robert-robert-the-record
November 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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'Blending bin'... 🫣 - Grit Salt bin near Stokesay Castle #GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#CravenArms #Stokesay #Shropshire
A yellow Grit Salt bin overgrown by verge-side plants
November 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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🎶 I hope that someone gets my, I hope that someone gets my... message on a grit bin 🎶

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Grinshill #Shropshire 💛
An autumnal, leaf-covered yellow grit bin takes centre stage in front of a stone wall in a grassy wayside verge on the edge of Grinshill village in north Shropshire. In the background, the burnished deciduous trees and evergreens of Corbet Wood can be seen rising up.
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Standing sentry 💂

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Clive #Shropshire 💛
The familiar curves of a yellow Glasdon grit bin standing at the top of the holloway leading into Clive village. In the background, a row of old cottages (possibly built for local quarry workers?) can also be seen.
November 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Hedgerow Cranesbill was still flowering well in the afternoon sunshine on Pigeon's Rough, near Shrewsbury, last Thursday afternoon:

#WildflowerHour #Shropshire 🟣
The pink petals of Hedgerow Cranesbill illuminated by the afternoon sun in front of gateway at the entrance of Pigeon's Rough, a large area of private woodland a few miles north of Shrewsbury.
November 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Anthony Scully's sumptuous long-range strike was the stand out moment of an open-ended but scrappy encounter from which Town deservedly claimed all three points. A MASSIVE victory and, at last, we finally have parity between points won and games played 🎉

#Salop 💙🧡
Players and fans celebrate as one, as Shrewsbury Town claim a well-deserved 1-0 victory against Newport County at the Croud Meadow. The evocative nighttime scene is illuminated by the new LED bulbs in the floodlights of the East Stand.
November 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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The 4 stages of a new Cate Le Bon album: 1. Hmmm, not really hearing it with this one, but I'll try again 2. Oh, this is interesting, let's have another spin 3. This is good... where's the lyric sheet 4. INJECT THIS INTO ME - I don't want to listen to anything else!

#CateLeBon #MichelangeloDying
November 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Braved Storm Claudia for lunch with a mate at Rhubarb in the Drapers Hall, and very glad I did! The interior is everything you'd expect of a building that dates from 1483 - and the food, service and prices were just as good. I went for a fish finger BLT, which was 👌

#Shrewsbury #Dining 🍴
The Drapers Hall is a Grade Two, 16th century meeting house built by the Drapers' Guild at St Mary's Place, in the centre of Shrewsbury. Church Street and the spires of St Alkmund's and St Julian's can be seen in the background. Entrance sign for the Rhubarb restaurant in the courtyard of the Drapers Hall. A fish finger BLT open sandwich. Incredible value for £10.50, and very tasty indeed!
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM