Sunday, 12 June 2022

From Oulton to the sea

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  If you climb up and over the Great Orme at Llandudno in Wales, you come eventually to the lonely St Tudno's Cemetery Chapel, the last ...
Tuesday, 10 May 2022

Head's up... then down.

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  One rather bizarre community activity in England is the 'scarecrow festival'.  Residents are asked to build and then display decor...
Friday, 15 April 2022

Sun in April...!

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  It has been strangely warm for April.  Is it climate change?  Yes, one ascribes (wrongly) every odd weather-happening to climate change, b...
Wednesday, 9 March 2022

Nello

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One of the most profiled living people in the Potteries is Neil Baldwin ('Nello') - yet most have never heard of him. His was ...
Wednesday, 16 February 2022

Citizen of Staffordshire

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    I don't know why particularly it should amuse me but I could only smile that the symbol for maternity at the North Staffordshire Hos...
Saturday, 15 January 2022

Not romantic ruin

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  A photo for gloomy January.  The abandoned Victorian factories of the Potteries are perfect examples of 'ruin porn', which we'...
Sunday, 5 December 2021

Calm before the Xmas storm

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  This month Lichfield Cathedral will go all-out with the Christmas spirit: light-shows, displays, mass carol concerts, even fairs on the gr...
Monday, 15 November 2021

Overgrown truck

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All returns to Nature, they say. This truck has. ++++ To comment on this post, just use the Comments field down this page To get an emai...
Sunday, 10 October 2021

Churchyard but no church

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  Here's an odd thing: a churchyard without a church. This particular patch of 'God's Acre' in Longton is now, essentially, ...
Wednesday, 21 July 2021

Dried up

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You might associate lakes that dry up with more tropical countries, but Britain has been having its share over the last few years; it's...