Hi, Jan...
Thanks for doing that for me. I wrote them about half a year ago regarding the Tower Place address. I never thought about the actual building he worked out of, silly me! What a good idea...Did you look at the site that Liverpool Annie gave the link to? I was not sure how to use the site, although it seems to encourage people to do just what we are doing. I imagine to do the full lookup as they did on the site would be fee based as per the regular rate.
Here's what they said about Tower Place:
The directories of Shrewsbury arranged by streets only start in 1882 - before that there are directories of Shropshire and within those Shrewsbury is found and the names and addresses of its most prominent citizens and tradesmen are given under surname, so you have to be looking for the name of a person rather than an address. According to the book Shropshire Street Names Tower Place which comprised numbers 27-30 Town Walls was first recorded in Bagshaw's directory of Shropshire 1851 although the buildings are of earlier date.
I have checked directories of Shrewsbury and from 1882 to 1928 number 28, Tower Place (or 28, Town Walls as it was also known) was occupied by T. P. Blunt. In 1931 and 1936 it was occupied by Dr. Lawson Stote and in 1938 by Leonard Joseph Godson, surgeon. The directories finish then but registers of electors show that Ruby E. Godson was there until 1958. Number 28,Town Walls then disappears from the register of electors when presumably it was bought by Shrewsbury Girls High School for expansion purposes. It is now part of the Girls High School although you can still see the number 28 on the front door. There is another almost identical house to the left as you face it (now also part of the High School ) and adjoining this house is Tower House which is a tower of the old town walls. The address is now Town Walls rather than Tower Place. All the properties to the right of the house (including a former chapel) are now part of the High School which has been on the site for over 100 years and so has needed to expand .
The picture you have is of the back of the house which can be seen from the Quarry Park by the river. Externally I don't think the house will have been altered much since your mother's visit 15 years ago. The house looks like a late Georgian house as are many of the houses in the vicinity.
