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By Eptas

An inverted dragon...

...hanging around on a building in Mardol, Shrewsbury.

More information from the Visit Shrewsbury website:

Mardol
The street name means 'Devil's Boundary' and may refer to the fact that it formed the edge of the 'Clean' area of the town where the Merchants lived and the part of the town where the tanners worked around Barker Street.

63 Mardol
This building dates back to the early 16th Century and as is common with many buildings of its age there is a slight overhang to overcome the limited amount of space of the ground floor.The beam that supports such an overhang is traditionally known as a 'Dragons Beam' and when the building was being renovated in the 1980's using a steel girder instead of the wooden one, some bright spark had the good idea of disguising the end of the beam with a carved dragon!

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