The Armoury.

This building when erected once stood between the Wenlock and London Roads on what is still known as Armoury Gardens. It was designed by a Mr. Wyatt and built in 1806 at a cost of £10,000. The two-storey building is 135 feet long and 39 feet wide and was erected to store the arms of the volunteer corps of Shropshire and the surrounding counties. Inside the building were two magazines for storing ammunition. Several small houses were built around the perimeter to house the storekeeper, armourer and subaltern's guard and their families. But ten years after it had been opened local author Thomas Howell reported, "few arms of any description had been deposited there," and the jobs of the men required little or no work.

When first erected it was described as "a handsome brick edifice," but within fifty years of being built, the arms were removed to Chester, the building lay unoccupied, looked very dilapidated and had been purchased by Lord Berwick. In 1916 a group of people living in the area cleaned, painted and furnished the building, turning it into a hostel for Belgian refugee families who had been displaced by the war.

In 1919, Morris's were relocating their head office and other departments from New Street to the Welsh Bridge site. They needed a bakery and as building material was scarce after the First World War they purchased the Armoury, dismantled it and accurately rebuilt it as their bakery on the banks of the River Severn.

Morris's baked bread there until about 1959 when production was move to a new site in Abbey Foregate, leaving the Armoury to concentrate its effort making cakes and confectionery, mainly for the wholesale trade.

Early in 1995 a £400,000 restoration project was started to restore the building to its former glory and to open it up for new enterprises. The upper floor with its gallery of wooden beams was offered as office space, while the ground floor was taken over by a Cheshire run family business called Pubs Ltd. who turned it into an up-market bar and restaurant.