Digital Hearing Aids Shrewsbury – Digital Hearing Aids Shropshire

Digital Hearing Aids Shrewsbury – Digital Hearing Aids Shropshire

Do you know how to pronounce Shrewsbury?  There seems to be a big debate about this.  It certainly looks as though it should be pronounced Shroosbury but there are some who say that the formal pronunciation is Shrowsbury.

This probably comes about because its name, as is the case of many old English place names, has gone through a number of changes over the centuries.  It was known as Pengwen, Scrobbesburh, Sciropscire which became Shropshire, Sloppesberie to Salop and Salopia, Schrosberie and finally Shrewsbury.

Salopians
People from here are known as Salopians.  So Salopians how do you pronounce this ancient market town’s name?  How do you hear the town name?

If you live in the area but have some problems with your hearing we’d like to tell you how we can help.  Hearing loss can be caused by many things from working constantly in a noise polluted environment to ageing.

If our eyes begin to fail for any reason, we go to the optician for a test and an ‘aid’ i.e. glasses or contact lenses.  It’s just the same for this ‘sense’ too.  If you are constantly missing parts of conversations or have to have the television turned up really loud, then it’s time you took one of our free hearing tests.

We can arrange for a professional audiologist to test your ears – to see the amount of loss in each one.  We can advise on the digital hearing aids that you need and give advice on how to use them and fitting.   Want to know more?  Take a look here or give us a call on 01782 698090 – you might speak to one of our team who’s had a similar problem and can advise you first hand.

Shrewsbury’s buildings
Considering that Shrewsbury’s centre still retains its original medieval street layout, you won’t be surprised to find that many of its ancient buildings are still intact.  In fact it has well over 600 listed buildings i.e. buildings of some architectural and historical significance in the town.  Amongst these are Shrewsbury Castle and Shrewsbury Abbey as well as many of the buildings of Shrewsbury School and other buildings of note in the town – Drapers hall and the Library.  The town also has a number of old timber framed buildings dating from 15th & 16th Century which are part of the list.

Ditherington Flax Mill situated in the town is the oldest iron-framed building in the World!  As such it is known as the ‘grandfather of the skyscraper’.  It was built in the 18th Century at a cost of £17,000, a tremendous amount of money then.  Although it only stands 5 storeys high and is currently derelict, it is Grade I listed.

Many other listed buildings in the town are pubs.  Shrewsbury has a host of public houses and bars totalling almost 100. However in the late 1800s there were around 200 pubs in the town.  Definitely more than you could get round on a normal ‘pub crawl’.

The oldest pub in Shrewsbury is The Golden Cross Hotel which dates back to the 15th Century.  It was originally called The Sextry because of its connection as the sacristry – a place where they kept religious vestments and vessels and parish records - of Old St Chad’s Church.  It was annexed to the church by a long-gone covered passageway.

The Three Fishes dates back to the 17th Century as does The Old Post Office which was just one of 5 public houses on Milk Street.  The others were The Angel, The Beehive, The Mug House and the Sun Tavern.  The Post Office has nothing to do with the mail but refers back to when it was an old coaching inn.  Even in 1900 it still had stabling for 13 horses.

 Water, water everywhere
The River Severn, Britain’s longest river, runs almost all the way around Shrewsbury on its way south to the Bristol Channel.  No surprise then that Shrewsbury has 9 bridges that cross the river.  Four of these are footbridges; the two main bridges are Welsh Bridge and English Bridge, both are listed and both replaced much earlier bridges.

Collecting Royal charters
Over the years Shrewsbury has collected a number of Royal Charters from
• Henry I
• Richard I
• John
• Henry VII
• Charles I
• James II
• Elizabeth II

Quite some achievement!

Notable people of Shrewsbury
• Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive was Shrewsbury MP in the 18th Century
• Shrewsbury was the birthplace of Charles Darwin, author of the Origin of the Species and he was educated at Shrewsbury School

• Novelist and poet Mary Webb was born nearby and spent long periods of her life in Shrewsbury
• Ellis Peters, real name Edith Pargeter from Shrewsbury wrote The Cadfael Chronicles set in Shrewsbury Abbey in the 12th Century.  The series was televised with Derek Jacobi playing Cadfael, the Benedictine monk

• It was the home of Leo Blair father of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
• Michael Heseltine was educated at Shrewsbury School
• The late DJ John Peel was also educated at Shrewsbury School
• It’s the home town of Mott the Hoople singer Ian Hunter
• T’Pau singer Carol Decker calls Shrewsbury her home town too
• Michael Palin and Nick Hancock also gained their education at Shrewsbury School
• More Shrewsbury School ‘old boys’ include the founders of the predecessor to Private Eye: Richard Ingrams, Willie Rushton, Christopher Booker and Paul Foot
• Footballers from here include Joe Hart, David Edwards and Danny Guthrie
• Golfer Sandy Lyle is also from Shrewsbury
• Gardener and TV personality Percy Thrower set up a garden centre in Shrewsbury

Famous visitors to the town include
• John Wesley founder of the Methodist Church with his brother Charles
• Author Thomas de Quincey
• Benjamin Disraeli who would become Britain’s Prime Minister

• Popular author Charles Dickens

Hard of hearing Salopians
Did you know that more than 10 million people in the UK suffer with hearing loss or impairment?   Over half of that figure is aged 65 or more.  And it is expected to rise to more than 14 million in the next couple of years mainly due to the fact that we are living longer.

Somehow we seem more wary of getting tested for a hearing impediment or being seen wearing a hearing aid.  The same problem used to be the case with spectacles but in recent years they’ve become almost trendy.  Let’s hope the same can soon be said for digital hearing aids.

These devices won’t make your hearing perfect again but they will go a long way to making your life easier and improving your hearing.  Don’t be the butt of people’s jokes as the hard of hearing often are, get tested and get your digital hearing aids now.  Call us on 01782 698090 or complete this form to find out more.