When the Prince of Wales (now King Charles), who had met Shirley on several previous occasions, presented her with her MBE medal in 2005, he joked: “Haven’t you retired yet?”
Shirley at a party to mark her 60 years with the Shropshire Star in 2017“I’ve been there an awfully long time. I think it’s time,” said Shirley, whose long and glorious career made her a household name in the county.
Just a few of her various other contributions were being a deputy lieutenant, a patron of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum, and county vice-president of Guiding. The family moved to Webb Crescent, Dawley, when she was 11, and her writing talents became apparent while she was a pupil at Coalbrookdale High School.
And it was from there that she cut her teeth as a reporter, although initially she had neither shorthand or typing skills. At first she would cycle to work, but later got a moped.
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