David Trumper Shrewsbury will be at at Waterstones, Shrewsbury on Saturday 29th November from 2-3pm signing copies of his new book, Shrewsbury in the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s: Britain in Old Photographs.
The county town of Shropshire underwent great changes in the twenty-five years between 1950 and 1975, when the council’s watchword was ‘down with the old and up with the new’. This book contains over 180 images of Shrewsbury from that time, from the transformation of the town centre to the demolition of the slum dwellings in the 1960s, when whole communities were uprooted. It also maps the growth of the new outer suburbs taking the countryside further away from the town centre. With stunning images from the local press, some fine aerial shots taken by a local land agent and material from an avid collector of Shrewsbury ephemera, it offers a unique look at the town as it developed and modernised after the Second World War, and a fascinating glimpse of an era that is becoming increasingly nostalgic.