VJ Day marks the anniversary of 15 August 1945 when Japan announced its surrender to the Allied forces. The surrender was met with relief and celebration that after six long years the Second World War was finally over. While millions took part in parades and street parties,...
Last Saturday, the Lord-Lieutenant was delighted to be asked to open a new exhibition in the Rose Paterson Art Gallery at Weston Park called the Green World of Brown. The exhibition, which focuses on the genius of the eighteenth century landscape gardener Lancelot 'Capability' Brown,...
The Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire, Mrs Jenny Wynn, OBE DL was delighted to represent the Shropshire Lieutenancy at the opening of the Yellow Ribbon Community Chaplaincy’s Joy Pavilion at Halfway House on the Wrekin.For more than a decade the Yellow Ribbon Community Chaplaincy has continuously...
It was with great pleasure that His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire, Mrs Anna Turner, welcomed the Dean of Hereford, the Very Rev’d Sarah Brown to the county. Together they visited several churches in the Shropshire region of the Diocese of Hereford to witness firsthand the...
I was talking to the Lord-Lieutenant in Cornwall last week and he told me their average rainfall is 1200mm, then I spoke to a friend in Cumbria and she said theirs is 1482mm and so I then began to feel blessed that in Shropshire we...
The Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire, Mrs Anna Turner was delighted to accept an invitation from the Lyneal Trust to attend an event celebrating 40 years of helping people with disabilities or mobility issues to enjoy time on the Llangollen canal.The charity is based at Lyneal Wharf,...
The Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire, Mrs Anna Turner, was delighted to accept an invitation to attend the Shropshire Army Cadet Force visitors’ day.The Army Cadet Force annual camp was held at Altcar Training camp, Liverpool and, as is tradition, they hosted a visitors’ day.Mrs. Turner, Patron...
Deputy Lieutenant Robert Bland was delighted to represent the Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire, Mrs Anna Turner at the re-opening of the Severn Valley Railway. Following months of closure due to a landslide at Mor Brook near Bridgnorth earlier this year, the 16.5-mile heritage line between Kidderminster...
Newly-commissioned Deputy Lieutenant, Mrs Jo Baugh, attended her first solo engagement on Saturday 19th July 2025.Mrs. Baugh was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire, Mrs Anna Turner, on 23rd May 2025 and was officially presented with her commission at the...
Garrison Sergeant Major Andrew John (Vern) Stokes OBE MVO DL was delighted to represent His Majesty’s representative, the Lord-Lieutenenant of Shropshire at the opening of the Monarch’s Mini Kingdom.In his day job, as Garrison Sergeant Major of London, he is charged with the planning and...
