Digital Hearing Aids Market Drayton – Digital Hearing Aids Shropshire

Digital Hearing Aids Market Drayton – Digital Hearing Aids Shropshire

Market Drayton, once just known as Drayton, is set between Shrewsbury and Stoke-on-Trent in the north of Shropshire.  Nearby the Shropshire Union Canal winds its way as does the River Tern.  The canal was built by Thomas Telford in the 19th century and opened up trade for Market Drayton.  It’s a small market town that has many historic buildings for its size and streets named after castles such as Balmoral, Windsor, Warwick and Caernarvon.

It seems to have a big connection to food too, as the home of a sausage production factory, yoghurt production and known for at least 200 years as ‘the home of gingerbread’.

Interesting then that most of the town (about 70%) was destroyed by fire back in 1651 and that fire was started at a local bakery!  Of course most of the buildings at the time had timber frames so it didn’t take long for the fire to rage through the town.  To this day you will find a bell on top of the Buttercross, which was to be rung as a warning if there was ever another fire.

Market Drayton’s Buttercross like many more across the country was a meeting area in the market square.  This is where people gathered to buy and sell local goods.  Market Drayton still has a market today on Wednesdays continuing the 700 years plus tradition.  The market charter was granted by Henry III.

Staying with food for a moment, Market Drayton was once well known for its Damson Fairs.  Textile producers from the north would come to buy the damsons to use as dye for their cloths.  Nowadays you are more likely to find damsons in many foods including jams of course, cheese, pies and gin.  If you’re looking for these local damson delicacies they can be found at the local market and at The Clive and Coffyne Inn.

Hearing all about it
If you live in this attractive town but are having a problem with your hearing, we can definitely help you.  ‘Pardon?’  Is that a common response from you?  Are you finding it increasingly difficult to complete a conversation without asking others to repeat what they’ve said?  If this is the case, it’s time to get your hearing checked.

Hearing loss or impairment can happen to any of us at any time, although of course it is another of those ailments often linked to ageing   However don’t let that get you down.  Hearing Aids can help.  We offer a free digital audiology test.  That means we check your hearing using a computer to assess the amount of hearing impairment in each ear and suggest an action to help alleviate the problem.

If you would like more information please give us a call on 01782 69 80 90.

Gingerbread
Gingerbread originated in the Middle East and is a heavily spiced sweet cake or biscuit.  It was brought to France initially by an Armenian Monk in the 10th century.  It was first mentioned in connection with Market Drayton in the 18th century.

Traditionally English Gingerbread is made very similarly to its Middle Eastern origins.  It’s rich and sticky with a Treacle/molasses base.  It is usually baked as a square cake and recipes have been known to include mustard, pepper, raisins, nuts, apples and of course spices.

The Market Drayton Gingerbread is reported to contain rum as well as a ‘secret ingredient’ and in days gone by, the popular way to eat it was to dunk it in port.  A double alcohol-whammy for this yummy cake then.

In Sweden it was used to aid the digestive system.  It is thought the spices were originally brought to Market Drayton by a famous occupant, Clive of India.  More of him later!

Fordhall Organic Farm
Staying with the food theme, the local Fordhall Farm has been organic for 65 years.  It is now a community farm where you’ll find Gloucester Old Spot pigs, grass fed Aberdeen Angus and Hereford cows and sheep.

You can walk a trail, visit the farm shop, the tea room or the restaurant where farm meat and other local produce is served.

Beautiful architecture
History oozes through the town where there are almost 90 Grade II listed buildings.  Many of these are a mix of half-timbered and red brick buildings in the centre of the town.  They include the 17th century Tudor House Hotel, Drayton House (red brick) and St Mary’s Hall (The Old Grammar School), which was once the school master’s residence and many more.

St Mary’s Church is the oldest building dating from the 14th century and built from local sandstone; its wooden doors are even older, claiming conception in the 12th century.  In its graveyard there is a commemorative stone to Thomas and Elizabeth Bulkeley dating from the 15th century.  They were distant relatives of 3 American presidents Calvin Coolidge (1923 – 29), George Bush (1989 – 93) and George W Bush (2001 – 2009).

Famous sons of Market Drayton
Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive aka Clive of India

An 18th century Major General in the army is responsible for securing India for Britain.  Robert was born at the family home, Styche Hall close to Market Drayton.  He was the eldest son of 13 children and today would have been branded a thug!  As a young man with his ‘gang’ of friends he initiated a protection racket amongst the shopkeepers of the town.  Any that didn’t cooperate were at the mercy of the gang who would vandalise their shops.  His father got him his post with the East India Company which sent him off to India.  Clive later, as part of the British Army, played a part in the forming of what was ‘British India’.

Sir John Tovey, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland was born in Market Drayton.  This 17th century dignitary was a cousin of the more famous Thomas Povey, who was a friend of Samuel Pepys and is mentioned often in his diaries.

19th century photographer Samuel Bourne called Market Drayton home.  He set up a photographic studio in India and travelled throughout the continent taking photographs.

Market Drayton was also home to John Lewis the footballer and referee born in 1855.  He founded Blackburn Rovers F C.

Sir Oswald Mosley was brought up as a child in his mother’s home, Betton Hall in Market Drayton although he never lived there for any length of time.  He became an MP and went on to found the British Union of Fascists.  He was a fourth cousin to The Queen Mother.

Market Drayton’s only claim to fame in the heady music business seems to be a tenuous link to Sigue Sigue Sputnick.  This ‘new wave’ band was formed by Londoner Tony James but shared a singer Jenny Z, a local Market Drayton girl, with a local band called Sonic State.

Don’t forget
You don’t have to have celebrity status to get your hearing checked and sorted.  Here (or should that be hear?) at Hearing Aids Stoke on Trent we can put your mind at rest and assess your problem.  Get in touch with us for your free test.

Our professional audiologist will ask you to put on the headphones – you can pretend you’re one of Market Drayton’s up and coming musicians if you want!  He’ll test your hearing in both ears using the computer.  It doesn’t matter whether your hearing loss is due to age, is hereditary or due to environmental noise of some kind, we are here to help.

Please give us a call on 01782 69 80 90.  Of course if you’re worried you won’t be able to hear us, get a loved one to phone or send us a message via email.  The sooner you contact us, the sooner we can help.