Contents

• Chairman and Editor's Welcome - Kim Spencer/Penny Cooper
• The Gathering Programme
• Back to the Lion Hotel of 2004 - Tim Hall
• The Lion Hotel, Shrewsbury - David Shields
• Stokesay Castle
• The Bog Visitor Centre - Lin Brown
• Prelude to Mystery at Witchend - Mark O'Hanlon
• Mystery at Witchend publishing history
• Spies in Second World War children's literature (part 1) - Pam Kirkland
• German parachutists - a special family connection - Richard Chambers
• South Shropshire hill country map
• Mr Morton spitfire pilot - Stephen Bigger
• Alf and Betty Ingles are back home! - Penny Cooper
• Peewit (lapwing) in the Shropshire hills - Leo Smith
• A brief journey through literary Shropshire - Barbara Harcourt
• The Silent Hills map
• Mystery at Witchend crossword
• Next year's Gathering