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An independent group of individuals who share a love of The Wrekin and a determination to see it preserved for the good of its communities, landscape, wildlife and heritage.

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Some promotions about The Wrekin:

The Wrekin Hill
Allan's Twh cover
This book is available for £12.99 from all good booksellers and the Halfway House after the launch on 8th April 2007, or direct from Allan himself, in which case send a Sterling cheque for £12.99 made payable to ALLAN FROST  at 1 Buttermere Drive, Priorslee, Telford, Shropshire, TF2 9RE, United Kingdom. Overseas buyers should send an International Money Order for that amount (there is no additional charge for postage for this book).

Wrekin Wraiths, Rebels and Romans
Wrekin Wraiths
The book is available from all good booksellers and the Halfway House on The Wrekin after the official launch at the end of October 2006 or direct from Allan himself, in which case please send a Sterling cheque for £5.99 made payable to ALLAN FROST at 1 Buttermere Drive, Priorslee, Telford, Shropshire, TF2 9RE, United Kingdom. If you live outside the United Kingdom, send an International Money Order for £6.99 made payable to Allan Frost at the above address.

Fern Ticket
fernticket.jpg George Evans, the venerable chairman of All Friends Around The Wrekin has a booklet out. Already on its second reprint and the only book about The Wrekin, like ever!

Join George for a walk up and around The Wrekin, learn all the important landmarks and all the historical aspects of The Wrekin.

BTW: A fern ticket is the mythical permit to adventure on The Wrekin or in its magical forest. Couples spotted leaving a dance at the Forest Glen were asked. "Have you got your fern ticket?"

Wrekin Recipes
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Recipes taught to the pupils of Wrekin Road School in 1904 with Emmie Teece's memories of the Wellington area in the years before World War One.
£2.99 All proceeds to the Wrekin Appeal

Available from : Langlands Records, Wellington; Shropshire Wildlife Trust, Abbey Foregate,  Shrewsbury

The Wrekin Mast - from George the Ancient



've just found  the papers and other records of the Public Inquiry about the mast.

Dated 3rd. March, 1970 at Bennetts Bank Youth Centre.

Anyone want to see them?

If so, let me know.

George.

On the copy and past bit. If you need to use Word to write, copy paste your text into Notepad—that will clean off the mark up, deselect and select all, copy and paste the text into an edit window on the site, and your text will flow naturally, then add bold, italic (or, hopefully, links).

We need a researcher, to go find interesting things about The Wrekin. Has anybody got any good stuff in their bookmarks?

This is partly why I patrol the aggregator.
http://www.wrekinfriends.com/aggregator
Looking for news to post. It's usually off topic. Mostly it's teenagers in the US talking about "Miss Shropshire" but sometimes it turns up people writing how nice it's been for their visit to relaxing Shropshire. It used to catch interesting news (about the bid) in the 'Shropshire Star.' But that doesn't seem to work so well, now. I'll go ahead and add some more Salopian, Wrekin, historical words in this trawl of 4 million blogs sites and countless official news sources (I've subscribed to a Shropshire and feed from the BBC News, perhaps they can explain something I haven't.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3223484.stm

Just looking at tonight's trawl through the blogosphere, I see family tree stuff, an odd made up story, somebody back from Shropshire, someone having a nice night with Shropshire Blue cheese. And an advert for re mortgages (?)  A Shropshire Star charity golf match, and the drugs raid in Telford yesterday.

Need some more defined words to pick up more on topic. Suggestions?

Also, just fixed it so you only need to write in the address bar of your browser "wrekinfriends" without quotes and the site will come up. No need for www dot nor dot com. Handy if you need to get there on a strange(rs) computer.
Jill wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> Thanks for sorting out problems.  I found a little bit more out about my uncle’s scouting days yesterday evening but haven’t had time to edit the text.  I could put it on as a follow-up but it might be tidier to edit what’s already there, hopefully this evening.  (I’ve grandchildren staying at the moment - so braincells let alone computer time -are in short supply!)
>
> I’ve also a little piece “what I wrote” about George Farquhar’s experiences “around the Wrekin” which led him to use the toast in the preface to “The Recruiting Officer”.  The only thing is, it is rather long to retype into the little box and would make more sense to copy and paste.
>
> I did google “Sarah Parker” and there was one (of the many!) who might have been the poet but noting to relate her to the Wrekin or this part of the world.  I wonder if her name rings any bells with Jenny??
>
> I wonder if we’re all exploring the site sufficiently.  I tend to read just the home page – so wonder if others are doing the same?  I’m more than happy for you to re-locate items wherever you think it is appropriate.  (If you see what I mean!)
>
> Best Wishes,
> Jill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Hooker
> Sent: 04 December 2004 01:21
> To: Jill
> Cc: jennifer smith; T J; George Chancellor; George Evans
> Subject: Re: Help! (2)

> I've got a Microsoft Word cleaner, I'll install it. See if it fixes your woes, in the meantime I really don't mind fixing anybody's errors, weirdness, uncoolness and general, "how'd you do that, Steve?" Type questions, just get to posting the (any) stuff. Jill, shall I put the scout in memories, is it ready? Shall I put it on the front now? I'd like much more of these things flowing through. Do we need more editors? Shall we 'spam' or in Manila parlance, 'bulletin' our members, asking if they have any personal memories they'd like to post, with pictures even?
>
> Do you read the aggregator? At the side under the Navigation header. Currently I'm trawling for the words "Shropshire" and "Wrekin". Odd things come up, every hour, on the hour. Is there any other words you think we should search for? Like "Sarah Parker" ;-) Or, "Cornovii" Or "hill fort"
>
> I'm CC'ing this to all, though I'm tempted just to blog it to the front page.
>
> Jill wrote:
>
> I’ve partly fixed it but it has still come out small.



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