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I'm looking at this article on the Guardian website and I find it very suspicious. The photo looks...fishy...but even murkier is the reference to Shropshire.
Let's look at the evidence: I've never been to Shropshire and neither has anyone I know. There are no towns that we can name in Shropshire. I have never seen Shropshire on a map. There are no famous people or teams or businesses from Shropshire. There is no town called Shrop.
The only possible conclusion is that Shropshire is a psyop. It doesn't exist. It is simply a mechanism for inserting stories into the media by our avian overlords. Probably this "flood" is just a cover up of toxin release from a biowarfare facility or something. Expect followup stories next month detailing environmental damage caused by Victorian heavy metals deposits in the released mud etc...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/22/people-rescued-boats-sinkhole-shropshire-canal
My aunt used to live in Shropshire, we'd visit a lot during the summer holidays. So if it is a psy-op, then my mum is complicit, as she was the one driving and telling us that that's where we were...
I was notified of this story by a friend of mine who also claims to live in a country referred to as Shropshire. What do we need to be told?
The ‘sink hole’ is where our world connects with there’s
I am currently in Shropshire. Well, I thought I was 🤔
Now you've turned my world upside down damn you!
Maybe Shropshire is in Finland?
Briefly lived in Tilstock and Prees as a youngster around 1980, not too far from Whitchurch. We lived there during the worst snow I've experienced in my lifetime ('81?), Tilstock junior school was shut for at least several days, snow drifted up to my waist while aged ~8 and I had to walk around like a saddle-sore cowboy to get around our fields.
Well as no one can agree whether Shrewsbury is pronounced like a small animal or a quiet row then you may be correct although it may make train connections for mid Wales harder if it isn't there!
Oswestry is clearly made up, it's a name that should be used for a pet dragon in a children's book, not a town.
I was born in Bridgnorth which until today I understood was in Shropshire. It's bad enough having to spell out the town (there's no 'E', no I don't know why either), but now i find out I'm from a non-existent county!
Rum do.
The Shropshire Independence Party would have something to say about that!
https://www.instagram.com/shropshire_independence_party
as no one can agree whether Shrewsbury is pronounced like a small animal or
It's the small animal, unless you're a Barbour wearing landowner (or heir thereof), in which case who cares what the plebs say anyway?
The only possible conclusion is that Shropshire is a psyop.
If it is. It's a pretty poor one, to be fair...
Oswestry
a contraction of EastWestBury - everywhere but nowhere. Demonstration Shropshire’s liminal nature, a thin ghostly overlay of another dimension across ours
legend tells of a queen of this parallel dimension who escaped and overthrew the leaders of our dimension - claiming it as the constituency of her South-West-North Folk ….. for a period of time that can only be measured in lettuces
Briefly lived in Tilstock and Prees as a youngster around 1980, not too far from Whitchurch. We lived there during the worst snow I've experienced in my lifetime ('81?), Tilstock junior school was shut for at least several days, snow drifted up to my waist while aged ~8 and I had to walk around like a saddle-sore cowboy to get around our fields.
I clearly remember the winter of ‘81/82 🥶, something like -25’C recorded up the road at RAF Shawbury, which used to be in Shropshire, though regrettably, no more. We had numerous pipe bursts, messy business, but we seemed to survive without it being headline news, except in the legendary ‘Not the Shropshire News’.
The air base isn't in Shropshire any more? Oh, sure, now you're saying that the government can just insert and remove airfields into "Shropshire" at its will. More evidence that Shropshire is a political, not geographic, device. How stupid and gullible does the government think we are?
Briefly lived in Tilstock and Prees as a youngster around 1980, not too far from Whitchurch.
Tilstock, Press and Whitchurch are obviously made up names that sound vaguely English and plausible but you can't place them in any particular part of the country. It's shocking how this forum has been invaded by Shropshire Disinformation Bots.
WAKE UP SHEEPLE! DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!!!
a contraction of EastWestBury - everywhere but nowhere. Demonstration Shropshire’s liminal nature, a thin ghostly overlay of another dimension across ours
😅
Only in books with sheep botherers with straw in their mouths wandering round in ths old clothing .
Well speaking as a Salop’ian …. from what used to be the Birthplace of Industry.
Did all the water in the canal go down the hole? Into the film studio obviously - must have made a mess of the cameras. Maybe someone had found out the truth and was about to make a (slow) break for it on a canal boat Truman Show stylee and they had to pull to plug to stop them.
Well speaking as a Salop’ian
Yet more evidence. If you're from Yorkshire you're a Yorkshireman, Cumbria a Cumbrian etc. So how do "they" get Salopian from Shropshire? It's like they're not even trying to conceal their extraterrestrial origins! "The Salopians" sound like the baddies in a Star Trek episode. They are clearly from the Crab Nebula or some such. This one has carelessly let his disguise slip.
. There is no town called Shrop.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PE1NrifElYs&pp=ygUNV2hlcmUgaXMgYmVyaw%3D%3D
Its also called Salopshire.
I know that 😎 Play the game!
Edit. I often hear Salop as interchangeable with Shropshire, but not Salopshire?
Sorry. I'm sure I've seen it on old maps. But yeah, I think Salop means the same as Shropshire.
It must have existed at some point anyway, otherwise we wouldn't have the Olympics!
Did all the water in the canal go down the hole?
One source in the article says it's a sinkhole, which suggests it disappeared into the ground and ne source suggests it's all in the field next door, which is less sinkhole and more breach. Who knows, it's all witchcraft, cos only weird folk live on narrowboats. Stay away from them and their familiars, heed me! They always have scruffy familiars...
This pic shows where the water has gone I think...
I thought Shropshire was behind the Nationwide at Swindon. Along with everywhere else in the Universe.
🙂
Six weeks ago Mrs Cfsb and I, had walked or ridden to the top of over 100 of the hills over 1000feet in Shropshire. Where have the remaining 90 or so gone ?
I’m pleased with this story, it has enabled me to explain to my wife that our two weeks on the Lancaster Canal could have been worse!*
*see separate thread.
Is it also part of the psyops to call what is clearly a collapse of a bank alongside a canal a "sink hole".
Shropshire Blue Cheese?
Is it also part of the psyops to call what is clearly a collapse of a bank alongside a canal a "sink hole".
The BBC's impeccably accurate reporter has now blamed somebody else:
Onsite engineers, from the Canal and River Trust, have said that earlier descriptions from emergency services of a "sinkhole" were not accurate to describe what had happened.
"George, we need help, all the narrowboats (and water) have fallen into a sinkhole" is a little different to "George , we need help, all the narrowboats have drifted into the field next door"
But yeah, I think Salop means the same as Shropshire.
Even the name "Salop" is a sick joke by the establishment against us. The ultrarich, powerful and royalty have since 1066 spoken French among themselves, which is why we have the word mortgage in finance, why French was always the language of diplomacy, why the Royals tsay "Dieu et mon droit"...
The word "Salope" means "sl*t" on French, derived from the word "sale" meaning dirty. So on one level, it's a parasitic being that does nothing - but more profoundly it's an indication that Salop/Shropshire is where the "dirty work" happens...like bioweapons research.
Is it a coincidence that they changed the name of the county to Shropshire *exactly* at the time when more and more people ourside the elite were learning French thanks to the the introduction of comprehensive education? I don't think so! The public school elite must have been terrified!
Well, Oxbridge scum, I've got some French words for you and your sick Shropshire scheme: J'ACCUSE!
Shropshire Blue Cheese?
Nope....
"The cheese was first made in the 1970s at the Castle Stuart dairy in Inverness, Scotland by Andy Williamson, a cheesemaker who had trained in the making of Stilton cheese in Nottinghamshire. The cheese was first known as 'Inverness-shire Blue' or 'Blue Stuart', but was eventually marketed as 'Shropshire Blue', a name chosen to help increase its popularity, despite it having no link to the county of Shropshire".
The word "Salope" means "sl*t" on French, derived from the word "sale" meaning dirty.
I cannot emphasise enough how much the French exchange students loved the fact there was a business called Salop Caravans about 400m away from my school
Wem. It's like they started to name a place but then ran out of enthusiasm.
Wem. It's like they started to name a place but then ran out of enthusiasm.
And then overcompensated in the other direction with "Much Wenlock".
Bit gnarly at the top.
What? So Carlisle Utd were dumped out of the early stages of the 2022 League Cup by fake news? And the 3 points lost easter 2024??
So what is/was Croud Meadow? Nothing speaks of fake history like a canal - that's conveniently disappeared.
Is this something to do with Westmorland? It's got their prints all over it.
Southern subterfuge.........
Carlisle United? Who are they?!?
Humberside has entered the chat 😆
^^^ … but what happened to ball recovery at the Gay Meadow?
The ‘sink hole’ is where our world connects with there’s
Most who've visited can't say much beyond it's a world a where's from this one's.
The ‘sink hole’ is where our world connects with there’s
Most who've visited can't say much beyond it's a world a where's from this one's.
Are you trying to hurt my brain on purpose? 😬
I used to keep Shropshire sheep. Renowned for being able to graze in a plantations and not damage the trees.
https://www.shropshire-sheep.co.uk/
My brother in law lives in a boat on that canal. But he’s fine. But his job renting out boats is at risk ifv they don’t fix it
I thought I spent the weekend in Shrewsbury and Church Stretton. It seems like I'm wrong... Has my memory been wiped?
I used to keep Shropshire sheep. Renowned for being able to graze in a plantations and not damage the trees.
Shropshire sheep were first identified as a separate breed in the 1870s at the Castilla Stuarta dairy in the Basque Country, Spain by Andrixiu Williamoso, a sheep farmer who had trained in the breeding of sheep in Switzerland. The breed was first known as the 'Swiss mountain sheep' or 'Basque sheep', but was eventually marketed as 'Shropshire sheep', a "regal-sounding" name chosen to help increase its popularity, despite it having no link to the county of Shropshire.
The ‘sink hole’ is where our world connects with there’s
Through some kind of salopian tube?
I thought Shropshire was behind the Nationwide at Swindon. Along with everywhere else in the Universe.
You do realise that, if anyone ever actually discovers what truly lies behind the Nationwide, all life as you know it will stop instantaneously and every molecule in your body will explode at the speed of light. Total protonic reversal.
YMMV 🤷🏼♂️
Sorry. I'm sure I've seen it on old maps. But yeah, I think Salop means the same as Shropshire.
Salop has its etymological roots in the word "slop" named for the viscous mud.
It's also where salopettes were invented to protect agricultural workers from slop in the fields.
Agricultural workers also wear large waterproof coats to top the ensemble and have over-developed leg muscles from walking through slop.
It's thought that the wet-weather appearance of those agricultural workers inspired the menu item, big mac and large thighs
"ball recovery at the Gay Meadow?"
Is this still football chat.......? 🤔
Fife and Angus have entered the chat.
"ball recovery at the Gay Meadow?"
Is this still football chat.......? 🤔
Back in the day when Shrewsbury Town played at the Gay Meadow, when a ball was houghed out of the ground in to the River Severn an old bloke with his Coracle used to go and recover the ball. Tricky business I imagine as those casers were heavy when sodden!
Assuming, of course, Shrewsbury is not the County Town of somewhere that doesn't exist. Some of this thread is quite Douglas Adams'esque.
Some of this thread is quite Douglas Adams'esque.
As a resident of the county since 1969, I am very much enjoying the above nonsense which neatly proves the futility of my non-existence.
BBC 1, 8pm, tonight.
Paddy McG and Cherry Healey tour a secret facility mass-producing ginger replicants (shhhh, but it's in Mkt Drayton)
My wife is a proud Salopian. She’s also proud of the fact that one of her eyes is almost evenly divided into two colours.
It should come as no surprise that the geomorphological landforms in Shropshire are somewhat iffy too.....
When did you ever see any product or business from Shropshire?
Well there's project Binky...
... well there's one explanation as to why it's not finished yet.
When did you ever see any product or business from Shropshire?
Sheep
Invisiframe
Pearce Cycles
Muller yoghurt
Coal
Iron
The Industrial Revolution
more sheep.
Clackmannanshire waves from the north
Yes but do you know anyone who has been to its shire?
There are no famous people or teams or businesses from Shropshire.
People
Charles Darwin
Thomas Telford
Michael Palin
Wilfred Owen
Robert Clive (of India)
Greg Davies
Percy Thrower
Jeremy Corbyn
Businesses (with a focus on bikes and beer)!
J-Tech mtb suspension
Islabikes
And as already pointed out by Nic above: Pearce Cycles; Invisiframe
Hobsons brewery
Ludlow brewery
Joules brewery
Three Tuns brewery
MTB spots (*those with official XC trails and/or DH runs)
Mortimer Forest
Bringewood*
Bucknell*
Eastridge*
Hopton*
Wyre Forest
Wrekin
Long Mynd
Stiperstones
Brown Clee
Titterstone Clee
The Marcher Castles Way CUK bikepacking route
I'm quite chuffed it doesn't exist, means you lot can't come and lower the tone!
As a proud Yorkshire man I now live in Shropshire.
Long live the fact no bugger has heard of the place. (Shropshire)
Famous people
Boris Johnson hangs about locally
Princess Di’s Body Guard lives around the corner from us
JFK used to go for horse rides in our local area that ended up in our local pub
The Athertons were brought up near us, Gee used to cycle past my house.
Nowhere is perfect
Yeah I know I believe the link is one of his many kids
Forgot - World Cup DH champ Matt Walker is local too
JFK used to go for horse rides in our local area that ended up in our local pub
Now it all makes sense. It's a secret area for stashing people who can't be seen in public any more.
Shropshire doesn't exist, it's just a cheese dream, and if it did, then it sounds like I definitely don't live round the corner from Funkydunc and there are no trails here, none, you hear, none... although if you catch the moon right when the canal is at high tide, the shire will lead you to the gates of dragons sack...it's a cheese dream I tell ya..
^ top of the class.
Welshfarmer's observation of the contour line at Maesbury reminded me of this, which is also not in the fake county. Must be something in the water supply around these parts.
I had a lovely holiday in Clun and can confirm that Shropshire doesn’t exist.
I clearly remember the winter of ‘81/82
That’s nothing! I remember walking to school in the winter of ‘62/63; I was the first boy in my school to start wearing long trousers, it started snowing Boxing Day and didn’t start melting until March.
The snow down here in North Wiltshire in ‘81/82 was fairly bad, but nothing like twenty years prior - I was driving backwards and forwards to Basingstoke from Chippenham several times a week to see my then g/f, the snow was about as high as my car roof, but once a snowplough went through it was perfectly drivable.
Sometimes I had a mate with me who was also seeing a nurse at the same college, and on the way back in the early hours I pulled off the road near Avebury, turned the lights out and got out of the car, and we stood and watched aurora in the sky for about ten minutes!
Has my memory been wiped?
I once lost three months of my memory by attempting a ride in Shropshire. I was told it was a crash… but now I’m wondering…
Rutland?
Anyway, I have been to Shropshire many times and can confirm that I think that it exists. Perhaps.
Ironbridge occasionally enters our realm, then it is purged with water and taken back.
There are two hills known as Caer Caradoc in Shropshire.
From the top of one you can see the other and vice versa . Maybe.
