I live opposite the Ditherington Flaxmill in Shrewsbury - the oldest iron structure building in the world. It's fallen into disrepair over the past 20-30 years however we had the chance to look at the plans for redevelopment. At the same time I took some photos of the accessible areas:

The road facing side of the main building is covered in scaffolding.

The mill closed in the 1980's, it has been abandoned since.

The site has a very strange feel to it.

The architects behind the two phase redevelopment are applying for planning permission.

Shropshire Maltings.

There are various regeneration plans for the South Silo including turning it into a clean energy building with a Bio Mass boiler.

All windows have either been boarded up or smashed.

The out lying buildings are set to be turned into offices or apartments.

The delivery point for the south silo.

The internal structure is held up with scaffolding. Many of the architects plans deal with how to support the current structure with a modern steel frame.

Signs still exist from the Flaxmills long history.

The redevelopment plans have wide public support.

View the full set of pictures on Flickr.

Here are some of my photos from Bonfire night at Weston Park. (Click to enlarge)

Today I took part in the Shrewsbury Dragon Boat Race to help raise money for Shrewsbury Hospice. Our team made up of 17 people from our office (The Pump House), the majority representing Marches Energy Agency, I represented Information Solutions (and obviously world famous ImAFish).

Click on any picture to see a larger version on Flickr.

The boat we had to race.

Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival is now well under way as reported last week. There are displays of work at the Gateway in Shrewsbury (next to my new office).

More on the cartoon festival and climate change can be found on the Carbon Forum website:

http://carbonforum.org/news/climate-change-cartoon-exhibition-opens-gateway-gallery-shrewsbury

This post is by guest blogger Matt Buck.

The fifth International Cartoon Festival is open now in Shrewsbury.

The main event when more than 40 of Britain's best cartoonists will be in town for a long weekend of cartoons and cartooning, runs from April 18-20.

But already six exhibitions of some great cartoon jokes and art are open to the public. You can find out more at http://www.shrewsburycartoonfestival.com or at the Bloghorn,

After reading about the 10 most beautiful bridges in the world at the weekend through Digg I went to take some photos of Ironbridge, #7 on the list which happens to be about 20mins drive from where I live.

The bridge itself.

The power station overlooks Ironbridge, giving an interesting contrast between old and new industry.

A view from the bridge looking up the river.

The bridge in the distance.

The bridge and the village which takes it name from the bridge.

On the drive up to Ironbridge I took this picture of the river Severn.