When I visited Shrewsbury, Charles Darwin’s birthplace, I was appalled at how little effort the city made to acknowledge the greatness that it had spawned. Here is the place where Darwin spent his formative years and yet you’d need the eyes of an eagle to spot any celebration of that fact. His home is, bizarrely, home to the Shrewsbury Valuation Office; his old school (now the library) has a statue but nothing else; and where, oh where, are the signs at the entrance to the city that should proclaim to the visitor that they are about to enter biology’s hallowed turf? Read More...Tags:Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury, Darwin's birthplace, Birth
14 August 2005 Filed in:
Darwin's Early Life
Darwin’s bedroom: the room in which he was born, The Mount
Darwin was brought up in Shrewsbury in a house called The Mount. I went to Shrewsbury and The Mount to check out where it all began and to see if I could not fathom something in the life of a young boy growing up there that may have contributed to his later outlook on the world. Read More...Tags:Darwin's birthplace, The Mount, Shrewsbury, Darwin's bedroom, Places Darwin lived
