By George...

Pub signs are an art form: and I rate this pub-sign at Alrewas. It has a nice imaginative thought behind it, I think

And it's topical to post it today - the feast-day of St George.

Grooving with arrows at Alrewas

Erosion?  No. In fact this grooving into the wall of Alrewas Church is another example of a habit of medievel times - that of sharpening your arrow-heads using the friable stone of a church building.  
Men were required by law to practise their archery skills regularly, and would meet by the church to do it.  So why not use the church wall as a form of whet-stone at the same time?!

There's another example at Checkley.

Danger - quicksand!

Quicksand is not a common threat to walkers in Staffordshire - though it does crop up.

This rather dramatic poster can be seen at the eastern edge of the National Memorial Arboretum.  The whole NMA site can be treated as a long and interesting walk, though its actual purpose is much more serious of course.

Remembering accident victims

The Roadpeace memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum is unique.
This is because the Arboretum (near Alrewas) was designed as a place to remember people - from soldiers to police officers - who've died in service. Yet the Roadpeace memorial, which lies quite far from the Arboretum's centre admittedly, remembers those who've died in accidents on this country's roads.

You'll often see the dove symbol (I think it's a dove) placed at sites where fatal traffic accidents have occurred.