Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Thirteenth century bits get new life

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The priory of St.Thomas the Martyr, founded about 1174, is no longer with us… and yet it kinda is. The public footpath goes right by...
Monday, 25 February 2013

Spears of icicles in rows

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The chilly weather refuses to go away - so much so that, even after any evidence of snow has pretty much disappeared, winter is still dug...
Saturday, 23 February 2013

Weird sheep pursue walker

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Sheep usually run away from walkers, or ignore them, but this lot decided to check me out and followed me right across the field. It was...
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Thursday, 21 February 2013

Sixties record shop lives on

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The Bevans Music Shop in Longton opened sometime in the mid 1960s, and is still going strong - but now under new management. The former...
Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Grey days at Lichfield

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Only England can do such grey, sombre days as these. There is virtually no colour in the sky, buildings or water, and if it weren't f...
Sunday, 17 February 2013

Bring on the spooks and ghosts

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Heath House is an old Victorian-Gothic pile at Tean, where the family that live there have had to think up new and interesting ways to pr...
Friday, 15 February 2013

Reservoir convert

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I have always avoided Tittesworth Reservoir as an attraction. Why would I want to visit a big lake of water constructed in the 1960s? ...
Wednesday, 13 February 2013

Hanley... improved

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Strangely the light fall of snow has stuck, so the white stuff is still with us. Frankly, the (laughably-named) Gateway To Hanley appro...
Monday, 11 February 2013

Bottle-oven in snow

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The snow has come back yet again, though this time as but a light layer of icing-sugar... so to speak. Strange about the frequency of ...
Saturday, 9 February 2013

Poet surrounded by weeds

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George Heath's gravestone stands, surrounded by weeds, in a lonely country churchyard near Leek.  Pretty much unknown now, he was in...
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