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Monday 2 August 2010

Blists Hill


What a lovely place.  I love a bit of Victorian history so the Town near Ironbridge Gorge was the perfect day out for me.  The BBC filmed The Victorian Pharmacy at Blists Hill, the chemist store is fully stocked with all sorts of medical, dental and veterinary paraphernalia, some of which I can remember from my childhood!  We had fish and chips for lunch, cooked in beef dripping - delicious.  There is a Baker's shop; we bought some bread and a fruit loaf, a Sweet Shop; we bought a selection of traditional sweets, a Butcher's shop selling pork pie alongside other homemade products, and all sorts of other establishments to look round.  The Print Shop was good, they print all the paper bags for the shop and the newspaper that you can buy from the Post Office.  There is even a bank where you can change money into Shillings and Pence to spend.  I'd definitely go again, despite the fact that we got stuck in traffic on the way home...

The Decorative Plasterers had a selection of beautiful plaster mouldings on show that are 120 years old.  The plaster and the invoices (underneath the photograph of Queen Victoria) are the original ones found in the building when it was restored.

More photos in slide show....