 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm in the Dana Prison in Shrewsbury. Don't worry. I haven't done anything naughty because if I did I probably wouldn't be allowed to be making this video of the prison, but I am in I should say a former prison It closed in 2013. This is the Dana Prison. You can see the building behind us. It's got quite a lot of history You can actually do tours of the prison. I'm not doing that today because I have got a few other things I came here to do Here's a plan though. You see how extensive the prison is. So we're just here. We're going to go out through that gate house I believe parts the prison were designed by Thomas Telford. I'm not entirely sure. I'm pretty sure though It was these this gate house here So if we go out of here and across the road that whistle you heard that's the railway station in front of me Which I'll talk to you about in a minute. You see that bus up there. That's John Howard. He was a prison reformer So that's the gates of the Dana Prison You think as I said you can do tours of it, which I'm sure very interesting and perhaps I'll come back and do that But I didn't actually know I didn't even realize it had closed as a prison I haven't been to Shrewsbury for a while. I remember I last time I walked past it was still a prison Anyway, we're gonna follow a path now known as the Dana Which if that's if I am pronouncing right takes us up over this bridge here over the railway station now if you Look down there You can see parts the railway station and if you look that way you can see seven tunnel junction signal box the largest Mechanical signal box. I'm pretty sure in the world definitely in Britain and behind it Shrewsbury Abbey, which Will also go and see but I'll appear in different video. So I'm just going over the footbridge now What we're going to do we'll go down to the railway station we'll have a look at platform three because all the other platforms have got ticket barriers and It's too much trouble really and it will take longer But I can give you a general idea what the railway station is like by taking on platform three And I really like this railway station because it's like the last big junction to be nearly all Controlled by seven four signals. So the Dana path Continues up there. This is the footbridge. It has newly or recently been restored and the station building is a very impressive site We're about to see the front of the station building It's in a kind of unusual Site because you've obviously got a hill here and up there Shrewsbury Castle We'll get on to that in a minute But the station itself is effectively on a bridge and what a lot of people don't actually realize is the platforms Straddled River 7 so we're going to look at that if you stand here You get a brilliant view of the whole of Shrewsbury Railway Station So I'm going to continue down these steps and If you can go that way towards the town centre or you can go through here this will take us on to Railway station. I think it is one my favorite railway station. It's one of the most impressive Stations I think so it's platform three as you can see there's no ticket barriers here I know we it's a bit like when we did the barrier us London underground stations It reminds me a bit of that when we looked for the 1200 underground stations You could get on to a platform without buying a ticket of course It's not to condone ticketless travel in any way. I just personally don't believe in ticket barriers, especially at railway stations like this Over there. We've got the River Trains Wales liveried skateboard. It's their River Trains world liveried It's now Transport Wales. There's a Virgin Voyager Won't be Virgin much longer. In fact by the time you watch this video The name Virgin may have disappeared so This might already be history before I've even published it. I'm just gonna go down towards the end of the platform Up there is the Abbey Doesn't look like you go as far as you used to. I haven't been here for a while So yeah, there's the Abbey down there and seven-time junctions in a box For some reason they're calling the British Transport Police. I'm hoping nothing too serious has happened I know they don't want me. I know I have just come out of prison, but I didn't escape. I left prison legally So that's the sooner foot bridge up there That is the Dana footbridge which we walked over. So to access the station You go down to the main ticket office and underneath the tracks and the ticket barriers are down So I won't go down to where they are, but I do think it's a really attractive railway station It's got such a nice atmosphere Up there is another single box. I think that might be called crew junction single box not entirely sure There's quite a few single boxes or at least three or four single boxes in the Shrewsbury area So it's really quite fascinating if you're a railway and sign infusion. So leaving the railway station now We're gonna go back up these steps to the Dana footpath Because where we're going we could go that way, but it's quite a narrow path and there's a lot of traffic a lot people So I'm gonna take you around the back way and what we're gonna do As I said Above us is Shrewsbury Castle. We're gonna have a look at that We're not actually gonna go into the main castle building. I'm gonna take you to somewhere where we'll get quite a spectacular view over past the Shrewsbury So back to the Dana footbridge Just there. We're gonna continue this way though And as we go up here we get an even better view of the railway station You can see look at that Lovely gothic railway station shooting must all be used for offices. It's not entirely short. It's useful. So the river seven is also not that far over there and It's also over there. So when we walk down the platforms what they've done. They've now fenced it off So I can't couldn't take you down to the point where the platforms go through a seven But when we get in the castle, I'll be able to show that to you from a different perspective So we're now kind of walking around into the castle walls. I've never shown about this hoarding That seems to be covered in graffiti. It doesn't give the best first impressions to the town If you came out railway station this way I do love these sort of back alleyways that whine their way, you know almost above the rooftops of You know the town. It's just makes it more exciting. This isn't graffiti It's obviously like a mural. There's actually a big mural there of the castle And one of the bridges because in Shrewsbury you've got English bridge and you got the Welsh bridge And I always get the two mixed up And probably won't go to any of them today The castle now is just there That door I'm going to assume is locked. So I'm not even going to try and go down there So we're going to have to now go down these steps and onto the road up into the town centre In front of us is Shrewsbury library And you'll see in a moment If you're wondering how Dana is about if I'm pronouncing it right that's there you go Obviously about all the stickers that someone's decided to decorate. That's Shrewsbury library We're having a very attractive Gothic railway station. Shrewsbury's got a very attractive Gothic library And sitting in front of the library is the statue of Charles Darwin because of course Charles Darwin He came from Shrewsbury. I lived in Shrewsbury. I'm pretty sure he came from Shrewsbury Someone wants to comment and confirm then, you know, please do. So the castle entrance is just here now We are going to go in to the grounds of the castle. We're not actually going to go into the building of the castle You can see it says the Brown Sorcerer's sign says castle and regimental museum So we're not going in the regimental museum We are going into the castle. I'm going to just look at it Swing the camera around. Look at this lovely Tudor building And then the entrance to the castle is just up there We're heading for that tower It's called Laura's tower And that's where we're going to because from we're not actually going up the top of Laura's tower But we're going up the to the base of Laura's tower and you get a very good view It's another awesome rainy day and I'm out making all my videos as per usual weather. I've said in previous videos I don't really mind if it rains. I just like to be helping about visiting places So here we are Here's one of this was a gatehouse that's slightly ruined. I haven't done a huge amount of research for this outing I've just sort of come a bit spur of the moment. So to speak So we're now entering the castle and you can see Castle grounds here. So the regimental museum is in the old keep. So that we're not going to do today That door I just showed you. I said we can't go in. Is that one there? So you can give an idea of where we've been So this is now coming up to the keep. You can see the gardens around here to the railway station is literally Down there on the other side of that wall, which I'll be able to show you in a moment So where Laura's tower is in front of that tower that tree you can see the one that's coniferous, but Got the sort of orangey colour leaf. That's a large tree. A large is the only deciduous coniferous tree It's interesting. There's a what looks to be a giant golden eagle I'm not sure if that's got some sort of significance But if anyone again wants to comment on that one Confirm please do Look at that one. Another little gatehouse out of the castle It looks like it's now used as a bit of a Whalebarrow store We need to find our way up though to I'm not entirely sure which bits which to cast because this is obviously the mound So I assume where we're heading up to now was originally the keep but it looks like in later times the Regimental Museum became the keep So we've got a really nice winding path now to go up behind the gardens to go under this u-tree and up to Laura's tower It's interesting. There's not that many tourists Come in here or people in general because It's an own factor to pay to go into the Regimental Museum, which I'm sure is very interesting Well, I'm not gonna say you don't have to pay to do this bit. We're doing So those who know Get the enjoyment. Come on. Look at that. There's the castle. This is the large tree. I was saying about So it's deciduous Not evergreen like all other coniferous trees. Ah Right, so where are we? I think It's interesting. So there's a gate ahead of us, which is locked Ah, yeah, there is a this gate might be locked But that's not where we're going. We're going through this arch here and As we go up the final few steps We will see Laura's tower In front of us. There she is Laura's tower and We go over to here you get brilliant view over Shrewsbury railway station a perfect place to steam train wouldn't it So see that virgin voyager still in the station some london north-western railway No west-midland trains units. I can't remember what they're called now. So they change ones. Anyway, the 170s are in the sidings Shrewsbury Abbey's over there Seventile Junction. Now here you can see better what I said about the platform straddling the river seven And so if you came up here in summer I don't think you see too much because all these trees but if you look down there You can see how the platforms are on a bridge over the river seven And then if you look you can clearly see the river seven heading off in that direction Towards um, so it goes through Atchum Battingham Park is And it kind of does a whole circuit around the town of Shrewsbury. It's a really pleasant walk You've got all the way around there And then you've got river seven again said not far Over there So we can't get into Laura's Tower. What we certainly can do is we can go up the steps to the base of Laura's tower So Here's the tower here Let's finish this video at the highest point we possibly can And of course the higher we go The better the view gets Even on a rainy day like this So yeah, that's pretty Exactly so we started over there in the prison and just see the chimneys through the trees And we finish here at Laura's Tower So Which we can't get into either Can we see much that way? I don't know The town centre that way There's some lovely churches in Shrewsbury and it is one of the finest Tudor towns In Great Britain So it really is worth you know coming to visit if um you're ever in the area so from The I'm not going to say the top of Laura's Tower. It's not the top of from Laura's Tower at Shrewsbury Castle Thank you very much for watching And um, please do feel free to like Subscribe and you know tell your friends they might be interested in the videos and make so thank you very much for watching With the viewer to row seven. Goodbye