Charting the captivating stories of the county’s regimental military history, Tom Baker headed to Shrewsbury castle, home of the Soldiers of Shropshire Museum
In the early hours of a cold, winter morning in 1992, incendiaries shattered the windows of two furniture stores in central Shrewsbury – rampant fires engulfed the buildings, as emergency services raced to respond. Those explosions, it later became known, had merely been a distraction. Shortly after, the venerable walls of Shrewsbury Castle were rocked by two large blasts. The Provisional IRA, having earmarked the site as a ‘soft target’ during ‘The Troubles’, conducted the attack, causing £250,000 damage and destroying more than a quarter of the exhibits housed within one of the most esteemed military museums in Britain.
