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Shrewsbury Castle in the Tudor Period
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Castle Gates, Shrewsbury (image)
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This image shows the street with the south tower of the Lower Castle Gate still in place. By 1825 it was gone, as were the timber cottages lining the street further into town. The removal of the medieval gates and the lowering of the street gradient in t...
This image shows the street with the south tower of the Lower Castle Gate still in place. By 1825 it was gone, as were the timber cottages lining the street further into town. The removal of the medieval gates and the lowering of the street gradient in t...
Shrewsbury Castle was constructed soon after the Norman Conquest to dominate the town. Though in ruins in the sixteenth century, it was garrisoned by Charles I at the outbreak of Civil War only to be taken by treachery by a Parliamentary force in 1645.