Road Stories

26/06/2025

Road Stories rebooted Babbinswood Farm

18/01/2025

T O D A Y at Llanyblodwel and Porthywaen Memorial Institute
F R E E session with poet, puppeteer and animator Jo Jo Vagabondi
🗯🗯🗯🗯🗯🗯🗯🗯🗯🗯
Drop-in between 12 and 4 :))))🚂🚂🚂🚂🚐🚒🚓🚔🚕🚖🚗🚘🚙
Also T O M O R R O W
Same time. Same place ☺️☺️
🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜

25/10/2024

Ellen Edwin-Scott and me Joseph Schneider delivered more posters today for the project
To Jeanette and Colin and the gang at The Midway Truck Stop and John at the scrapyard off the A495
They were all sooooooo chuffed and it's do heartening for us that the project will live on in posters in windows and living rooms and sheds across the area :)))
we'll be sharing the poster with participants over the coming weeks and months as a BIG thank-you 🥰🥰
With photographs by young people from Wem youth club on one side, as well as a poem about the A495 and a gorgeous text by Ellen on the other side we hope that they'll be as happy with it as we are :))))
To listen to the stories go to Roadstories.org
Generously supported by players of the People’s Postcode Lottery through an award by the Postcode Local Trust
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
This project was also funded through the Crowdfund Shropshire Grant Scheme

Shropshire Council
People's Postcode Lottery

24/10/2024

Here is the poster of the project we did with Joseph and Ellen - Road stories!! Up in the club for everyone to see the fantastic photography work that the group did! 😊🤩

12/10/2024

Lovely reading of Road Stories poems by Ellen Edwin-Scott in Welshampton Parish Hall
And great to start giving out the Road Stories posters to participants:))))
People's Postcode Lottery

02/10/2024

14/09/2024

Fantasy vehicle making today as part of Heritage Open Days in Whitchurch!

13/09/2024

This is fun!

Today and tomorrow as part of Heritage Open Days, come and find out about the Road Stories project. Listen to real-life stories of road travel in North Shropshire, and even record your own story at our mobile recording booth.

Visit our interactive display to find out more about our project and the communities that we worked alongside.

You can also get creative with the whole family as well by designing a fantasy vehicle or contributing to our “fridge magnet” road poem.

We will be located in an agricultural building which once belonged to the Old Rectory. It will be possible to view an exhibition chronicling the restoration of the Old Rectory Ice House and the history of similar buildings.

Roadstories.org

Ellen Edwin-Scott
People's Postcode Lottery
Shropshire Council
Whitchurch Heritage Centre
Heritage Open Days

12/09/2024

This summer we took Road Stories to Wem Vehicles of Interest, and while we were there I met some people from Wem Area Climate Action. One member of the group had brought along an electric car to show to people during the day and to start a conversation. I was curious to find WACA there amongst the classic cars, the big trucks and the tractors and I recorded this short interview to find out more about it all.

Listening back to it on this recording, you can hear the sound of the all the vehicles revving up for the big parade as they pass through the park.

roadstories.org a community story project ROAD STORIES is a year-long creative reminiscence project. Bringing together stories and artefacts from our local area that are focused on the road. As wel

22/08/2024

As part of Heritage Open Days, come and find out about the Road Stories project. Listen to real-life stories of road travel in North Shropshire, and even record your own story at our mobile recording booth.

Visit our interactive display to find out more about our project and the communities that we worked alongside.

You can also get creative with the whole family as well by designing a fantasy vehicle or contributing to our “fridge magnet” road poem.

We will be located in an agricultural building which once belonged to the Old Rectory. It will be possible to view an exhibition chronicling the restoration of the Old Rectory Ice House and the history of similar buildings.

Roadstories.org

Ellen Edwin-Scott
People's Postcode Lottery
Shropshire Council
Whitchurch Heritage Centre
Heritage Open Days

19/08/2024

Today I spent a fascinating couple of hours walking in Welshampton with Heather Rodenhurst.

Heather generously shared what she knew about the routes around her home, historical and personal reflections on the ways that people have travelled around the village through time.

The hollow way in the picture is still used as a footpath although you couldn't describe it as a 'road' these days. The entrance is grassy and the steep banks are eroded so that the roots of the trees show through. But the track has been worn down by long years of use by local people, travelling to school, to home and to work over perhaps hundreds of years.

I'll be sharing some of today's conversations as part of our next podcast. Look out for stories about ancient Welsh heroes, disappearing standing stones, field names and forgotten paths...

Do you know a forgotten path? A green road? A hollow way? Tell us about it in the comments or post a picture!

12/08/2024

Who's listened to our first podcast?! Here's the link if you haven't got around to it yet.

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rural-art-hub/episodes/Road-Stories-Podcast-Home-and-Away-e2lr6av/a-abe1l5o?fbclid=IwY2xjawEnO8dleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHfKt9Okh8TYuCSeSpwJm0sUXui-L2oK3kckrEv2GKNTSgPDrA8zozzbPiA_aem_pOSsGTXzn_Weua5ELZulfA

I'm busy working on the 2nd podcast, with the theme 'Lost and Found'.

Have you ever found anything interesting on the road? If so, we'd like to hear about it. Send us a direct message if you'd like to tell us about something interesting you've found on or near to a public highway.

A journey through stories collected on the Road Stories project! Rural Art Hub have been collecting stories about the road in rural North Shropshire since August 2023. This podcast reflects on the stories, and on the idea of home.