Love seeing my hometown enjoyed by other people..used all those shuts as a kid to get where I was going..great shortcuts in a beautiful town..❤️

Well done Sir! It was actually sunny for a change.

my home town , been abroad for 12 years , great video

@RichardVobes

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Neil.

I love Shrewsbury, especially for its architecture. I was an art student there from autumn 1977 to summer 1978. I knocked around with a fellow named Peter, who lived there at the Draper's Hall in St Mary's Place. He knew a lot of the shuts and they were great short cuts from one street to another.

Thanks for your informative video tour Richard.My partner and I recreated your walk in mid November and picked up a map of the shuts from the information centre.We are from Sydney.Your video encouraged us to make the detour from Edinburgh to London via Shrewsbury.The walk opened our minds to an aspect of English culture we never knew existed.Such evocative laneway names! Cheers Miles

@crystalwaters8852

Жыл бұрын

Alleyways or short cuts!

I have only visited Shrewsbury once, and missed this area completely. I need to return, absolutely fascinating and I like all the old names of the Shuts. Thank you for posting this, a really interesting insight to such an ancient area.

Shuts is an old word for shops that were at the back of people's houses or the back street. Often it was for selling what produce they had left over, or things like pies that shopkeepers wives would make for a bit of extra pocket money. Sometimes the shuts were simply the back of shops where limited deals could be struck at cheaper than market prices. The doors were usually shut during the day to promote front of house custom.

@RichardVobes

4 жыл бұрын

Oh how interesting - thanks very much for that.

@teresaharrison9368

Жыл бұрын

That was interesting!

@crystalwaters8852

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for that info!❤

That's final scene outside the church with the half timbered homes.... absolutely brilliant. It's such a lovely place.

A gracious looking city. A lovely place. Thank you Mr Vobes for your interest and concern.

What a delightful video. I'm currently locked down in the Middle East, loved watching your videos of my home town

Another great video from the archives, Richard. What a fab town Shrewsbury is!

great for that quick line between pubs, especially snowing..main streets cant hide away from it

Lovely town. I think you are encouraging tourism. Maybe I can come, one day.

Enjoyed watching the lively streets and shuts. After the emptiness of Coronavirus, it seems strange to see people on the streets. Isn’t it funny that we get used to things so quickly? Thank you.

You have encouraged me to visit Shrewsbury. Thanks.

Thanks Richard, I'm catching up with your walking videos and enjoying them a lot.

@RichardVobes

6 жыл бұрын

Gary Wann Oh fabulous!

another interesting walk thanks richard

@RichardVobes

6 жыл бұрын

Mark Sellwood My pleasure. Glad you liked it!

Thank you! These are just the types of passages my mother used to tell me to avoid. 😆 Your video does give one a feel for for the tight spaces of a medieval city.

@RichardVobes

5 жыл бұрын

Oh these days those passages are pretty safe - I say that, I haven't been down them at night.

Lovely to see the passages. Some i don't think i have ever been down or up.

@RichardVobes

3 жыл бұрын

They are great fun, aren't they?

Any relation to the “Shambles,” of York? I am a fan of Ellis Peters, Cadfael stories fame. And wondered through Shrewsbury many, many days on end. And your ‘vlog,’ brought many fond memories. Thank you.

@RichardVobes

3 жыл бұрын

So pleased you enjoyed it and brought back memories.

What a beautiful town!

@RichardVobes

4 жыл бұрын

It sure is Susan.

Richard, your grope passage is now known as grope lane, and was known as Gropec**t Lane in medieval times, and was the centre for prostitution and was the name was used quite upfront, in many many towns throughout England for the same reason, no malicious'nous or suffering (maybe).

@avalondreaming1433

3 жыл бұрын

Wow! How absolutely appalling.

@NatSatFat

3 жыл бұрын

@@avalondreaming1433 Yes, but that's the way it was back then, modern sensebility's were not around .

@avalondreaming1433

3 жыл бұрын

@@NatSatFat I believe you. I just find it incredible

@seriousoldman8997

3 жыл бұрын

Goodness. You walked past my front door..

@NatSatFat

3 жыл бұрын

@@seriousoldman8997I have no idea what you might be meaning?

Fish Street was used as the set in Scrooge Christmas Carol where Bob Cratchit‘s house was

@RichardVobes

5 жыл бұрын

Oh was it - a great location for a Dicken's novel!

@paulyeomans2574

3 жыл бұрын

@@RichardVobes Indeed, as you approached the top of Grope Lane (it is lane, not passage), the church you see on your right (St.Julians) was super-imposed out with a picture of St.Paul's Cathedral to portray Victorian London! The market square you reached at the top of gullet passage was recreated into a Victorian market as seen in the opening sequence of the film (George C Scott version). Nice to see my home town, cheers!

I enjoyed that so much I'm going to watch it again and then again. Beautiful drone footage and scenery. Really enjoy the seaside commentary about the area and how you feel about the coast and of course loved the romantic Whimsey. Thank you what a beautiful country we live in.

@RichardVobes

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

great film richard we enjoyed this again, thank you

@RichardVobes

6 жыл бұрын

trevor wright Good stuff. Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching!

Looks like a lovely walk, thanks Richard!

@RichardVobes

3 жыл бұрын

It was! Thanks for watching.

The video is great. Thankyou!

Hi Richard..lovely walk again today.... thank you... 👍🏻🤗😘

@RichardVobes

6 жыл бұрын

My pleasure as always.

I truly enjoyed that video ❤❤❤❤❤

Hi Richard your videos are getting better and better

@RichardVobes

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for noticing!

Shrewsbury is a beautiful town as are so many in Shropshire.

what a wonderful little tour of the "shuts"...really liked your video of them richard

@RichardVobes

5 жыл бұрын

It is great when a town has loads of these passages to explore!

Really enjoyed this video

@RichardVobes

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I do enjoy your videos so much...thank you Richard!

@RichardVobes

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

This is proper telly. Thanx Rich. Loved the smuggler prog.

@RichardVobes

6 жыл бұрын

Dai Kayll Thanks so much!

Very excellent walk, thank you!

@RichardVobes

5 жыл бұрын

Pleased you enjoyed it.

Fantastic never noticed them before but I will look out for them next time many thanks .

@RichardVobes

2 жыл бұрын

No problem 👍

lovely!

Wow this town is beautiful! I will visit soon! :)

Shrewsbury looks gorgeous

I have enjoyed by seeing town.its wonderful,amazing,the roads and streets and alongside buildings were amazing to see

@RichardVobes

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

It was called more than grope passage in its time, begins with the c word. quite a popular name in medieval towns and cities at the time , a really lively place to be .

I’m visiting next Friday 😊 love your vlogs 👍🏼

@RichardVobes

Жыл бұрын

Have fun next Friday. Thanks for watching.

Splendid Indeed. You are delightful!

Thank you So Very Much , i love watching "English Serene Villages" as well as such towns. Cheers !!!

@RichardVobes

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mamta Dave, I am thrilled to bring them to you!

@mamtadave3128

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so mush once again ,I am watching The Wey and Arun canal right this moment and that's too very nice walk and informative.

@RichardVobes

6 жыл бұрын

So pleased you enjoyed it too. I hope to walk some more of out fabulous canals.

Shrewsbury is another really pretty town. I just love all those timberbuilt buildings! That 1st shut you went down reminded of something out of a Dickens novel - you could just imagine all the evil-doings that probably took place at night there at that time!

@RichardVobes

5 жыл бұрын

Well they filmed A Christmas Carol in Shrewsbury for that very reason!

@ramibu239

5 жыл бұрын

@@RichardVobes 😯😯😯! I had no idea. I figured I just watched too much PBS which airs a lot of British shows & prob had that kind of imagery stuck in my head. Theres been a couple other villages where I thought the same tjing, like if they got rid of the asphalt and replace it w/ cobblestones or dirt it would be movie set ready.

@paulyeomans2574

3 жыл бұрын

@@ramibu239 I was in Shrewsbury job centre which overlooked the market square on the day of filming. It was a hot summers day 1984 and yet the whole area looked like a bustling Dickensian winter wonderland! At the bottom of Gullet Passage there were two pubs, The Hole in the Wall and The Market Vaults, which were later knocked into one. It was at one time a slaughterhouse and blood from the building was piped through a 'hole in the wall' to the next. The Market Vaults was never known as The Market Vaults to locals, it was affectionately known as The Blood Tub (where the piped blood ended up!)

@ramibu239

3 жыл бұрын

@@paulyeomans2574 awesome! Thanks for all the information! I loved it!!!

@MsVanorak

2 жыл бұрын

@@ramibu239 that is what they do for some films/period dramas in the uk. they aren't outdoor sets in movie lots, they are real villages with gravel over the tarmac and shop fronts repainted etc.

Very interesting .thanks richard..

@RichardVobes

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Steve

excellent I am watching in Australia and enjoying seeing where my ancestors came from.

@RichardVobes

4 жыл бұрын

So pleased you are enjoying it.

Worth having a look as when I visited Shrewsbury I didn't know about them and thought they was private alleyways.

In all my time there I never knew they were called shuts!

We have similar passages here in Durham city called vennels. A magnificent place to visit if you're ever up north.🇬🇧

@RichardVobes

4 жыл бұрын

I would love to visit Durham!

@davemacdonald3889

4 жыл бұрын

@@RichardVobes Something that may be of interest Richard is a set of books printed in the 1930s by Batsford LTD called English Villages and Hamlet's. I believe you can get re issues. They are delightful books that may give you more ideas. I've just looked on Google and it's available.🇬🇧

Great walk I used use a couple in west end of London and in city area great for avoiding wandering tourists with humongous rucksacks at traffic lights.

Nice video, next time you might like to look at the kings head passage and the very interesting kings head pub with it’s fantastic architecture and beautiful wall painting.

@RichardVobes

4 жыл бұрын

Oh yes, I know it well - must do more shuts in Shrewsbury.

Love it Thank you!

@RichardVobes

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

This is my hometown-perhaps best known fairly recently(in the late last century!) when it was transformed into a Victorian village for George C Scott and Co to appear in Charles Dickens `A Christmas carol.` The burial plinth for Scrooge is still in St Chad`s graveyard.

I think a shutt is short for short cut. What i notice,is that local people call this beautiful town Shrewsbury as it is spelt. Out of town people call it shrowsbury. In humble opinion i should call it Shrewsbury.

@RichardVobes

2 жыл бұрын

The argument goes on - the older/original town name is closer to the latter pronunciation - the town has nothing to do with shrews.

Lovely ,we have some shuts in Ludlow too.Wonderful

@RichardVobes

3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful

@MsVanorak

2 жыл бұрын

they call them something else in ludlow too and it's going to bothers the heck out of me until i remember the word.

Thank you

Brings back memories of 2007

Beautiful classic city... Love from India

@RichardVobes

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much.

I'm going to Shrewsbury in 2 weeks time, and staying tor 5 nights. I'd like to explore around the town centre and take a walk through those shuts that you mentioned. It would also interest me to see the castle and that incredible railway station with it's superb architecture. Does the town have a tourist office ? I'm sure it must have, it would be nice to know where it's located only I'd like to get some information about whether there's a public transport service to Ludlow. I've heard it's a nice place to visit with it's castle. Never been to Shropshire before. I'm looking forward to it..

@drilla2112

3 жыл бұрын

Tourist information office is in the square, daily trains from Shrewsbury to ludlow as well or theres the bus station on smithfield road

Nice looking town, its on my list places to visit. Shame about the ubiquitous wheelie bins in Peacock Passage.

@RichardVobes

4 жыл бұрын

Those wheelie bins are everywhere, as you say!

Grope Lane is my favourite in Shrewsbury... Because of the Harry Potter shop a quarter of the way up 😄😂

Shut that door ! The word shutt is a Norman word related to archery. The Shutt family came across with William the Conquer and let have them in my family tree. I think they settled in Devon.

@RichardVobes

4 жыл бұрын

It is an interesting word.

😀 Thanks

Just sent you to Australia, hope you like it there, cool vid by the way.

@RichardVobes

6 жыл бұрын

Better than being sent to Coventry I suppose. :)

@ceriwheeler

6 жыл бұрын

Australia is a paradise and you were greatly appreciated there too, memories of the uk for visitors, thank you.

I've always known them as shoots.

Very interested place

@RichardVobes

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much

Shrewsbury is much like Edinburgh that I remember

Used to live next to Bank Passage 🙂

Great place. I had planned to move there for years and then the pandemic hit and most of the houses were bought by rich people, from London mostly. How they all seem to have ready cash to move on a whim and often work from home I'll never know!

This reminds me very much of Salzburg Austria.

@RichardVobes

6 жыл бұрын

I have never been, but now I don't need to :) Thanks for watching Scott!

At the top of Grope lane, The timber framed buildings caught fire due to a careless welder.Classed as the great fire of Shrewsbury

@RichardVobes

5 жыл бұрын

Do you when that was?

my own thought on the name is that it is an abbreviation of shortcuts.

Check out that character swigging a can , in camouflage , @ 0:58!

@RichardVobes

5 жыл бұрын

We do have our characters over here! Thanks so much for watching.

It looked like people actually had houses in those little alleys.

@RichardVobes

6 жыл бұрын

Yes of course - people lived and still do live in the most tiny places!

Is there a prize for the 10,000th viewer ? :D I followed your suggestion to come and see 'Shutts' via the Worthing Twittens vid. :)

@RichardVobes

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Ray!

I'M IN THIS I'M THE GIRL WITH PINK HAIR HALF SHAVED AND A BLACK HOODIE AT 1:30!!!

@RichardVobes

5 жыл бұрын

Well, hello to you? Thanks for being in my video and making it great!

I thought they had a lot of twitterns over in Hastings old town,but this puts theirs to shame!!!

@RichardVobes

5 жыл бұрын

Lovely shuts in Shrewsbury (alleyways)

snickets and gynells, is what they would known by up here in york

*Been there today, (16/3/2020) and they are called 'Shuts' because they all soon will be by the sound of the 10pm News*

@RichardVobes

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed!

Some of those businesses would be difficult to find if you did not know their location.

@RichardVobes

6 жыл бұрын

Charles Stell Luckily people explore the shuts and they soon become familar.

In the north of England they are called ginnels. (a hard G).

@RichardVobes

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting - thanks.

Nothing to do with schutt or shuttle?

I think it's a reduction of short cuts = shuts

@RichardVobes

6 жыл бұрын

Juergen Taddicken Ah yes, could well be! It never occurred to me!

@daikayll1897

6 жыл бұрын

Not bad that.

@eduardoa.rebollartellez6578

5 жыл бұрын

Excellent video. Thank you

i think those shuts were closed at night because the town was near the Welsh border to avoid intruders during the reign of Edward I and before

@RichardVobes

4 жыл бұрын

Makes sense. Thanks.

Glad Grope Lane was there. Hope the locals know why it was called that. 😂😂

@RichardVobes

4 жыл бұрын

A fascinating shut!

@dianerogers8805

4 жыл бұрын

It is . I lovey my home town, so many shuts and passages,.

I think it was about 2003....il look up

"Grope passage" is an abbreviation of its full name. Can you guess the full name?

I can remember one in central runs up from strand with pub in the alley same in city of London they snake thru as short cuts i think in whitby they run thru down to harbour the alleys some are used as gardens and called backs ?

@RichardVobes

5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant!

Turn right at the bottom of where you walking

Tankyo richad teech me ting inglis jentelmem life stile

Richard..... I just found a reference to street in Oxford which was named, rather alarmingly, after the occupation of some residents...... but I can't repeat the street name here... it's too rude!!! I'm sure your research relating to medieval street names has allready identified it and you know what I'm refering to...needless to say that particular street has now been given a more acceptable name. Have you been to Lowestoft amd walked up and down the 'Scores' which lead from the town to the beach? They're exhausting but have interesting history. 🤗😘

@RichardVobes

6 жыл бұрын

Actually don't know that one - I shall have to look it up now! I have only been to Lowestoft when on business and haven't explored the town properly - another place to explore then - thank you Patti. I shall add it to the list!

And its grope lane. NOT Grope passage

@RichardVobes

3 жыл бұрын

genuine mistake mate

Shrowsbury lol You're not from round 'ere are you mate?

@RichardVobes

3 жыл бұрын

I know some very old families whose descendants have been in Shrewsbury for a few hundred years, and they pronounce it the 'old' way. So I took my tip from them.

@drilla2112

3 жыл бұрын

The vast majority of locals call it shoosebrie, the few upper class or wanna be upper class pronounce it shrosebury, neither are wrong Being a native i pronounce it shoosebrie so did my parents and grandparents and great grandparents

Shrowsbury

@RichardVobes

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, the county town of Shropshire - worth a visit.

Correction it was October 2006...Remember it well

@RichardVobes

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for correction.

ah the world b4 it went fully bonkers in Mar 2020. lots of Normies all getting about without clownville face aids.

In New Zealand we have 'the shuts' as well, except they're what happens when you get food poisoning.

@RichardVobes

5 жыл бұрын

Oh right - something very different.

shuts up north called ginnel so i here

@RichardVobes

6 жыл бұрын

Oh right - thanks for letting me know! :)