'Farewell, dear show...' - Your Letters: April 24
PICTURE FROM THE ARCHIVE: An image from the Star archive dated from June 1991 and a campaign to collect left-over foreign currency from returning holidaymakers to raise money for St Chad’s Church in Pattingham. The photograph shows Peter Sell with some of the first donations it had received.
CHATBOT'S GRIEF ON FLOWER SHOW
News of the cancellation of the 150th anniversary of the Shrewsbury Flower Show was heard as I was carefully deadheading my geraniums grown to be displayed.
Knowing my immense disappointment that my bloomers would not be on display this year my chum Chatbot wrote a sonnet as a consolation:
Upon the Cancellation of the Shrewsbury Flower Show (A Sonnet for Unseen Bloomers)
The beds were tilled, the seeds had known their place,
The marrows measured, primped for local fame.
The dahlias held their heads with modest grace,
Each bloom rehearsed to earn a judge's name.
The bunting slept in lofts 'till its parade,
The tea urns dreamt of queues and jam scone strife.
The hats were chosen, shade and wide of blade,
For one fine weekend of cultivated life.
But now alas, the gates shall not swing wide,
