Saturday, 29 June 2013

Lichfield's small stop

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Lichfield Trent Valley is one of those small, bare railway stations which are better called ‘stops’ than stations.   It has the suffix...
Thursday, 27 June 2013

Lady in a niche

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This charming sculpture is to be found tucked away in a niche, almost out of sight, in Keele Hall, the mansion that is the oldest part of...
Tuesday, 25 June 2013

Red splashes in the fields

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The red poppies are making brilliant splashes in the fields, and all the more colourful for being mixed in with plants of different hues....
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Sunday, 23 June 2013

Memorial to "benevolent individuals"

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This is a most unusual cemetery memorial, as it remembers no particular person, nor does it name any individuals of this group of "b...
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Friday, 21 June 2013

Stafford knot up the pole

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I collect Stafford Knot photos, and here is another one. This time, the knot (seen under the A&A wording) is being used to underli...
Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Burslem to India

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The name Kipling is associated with Staffordshire because the nineteenth-century artist & designer John Lockwood Kipling designed som...
Monday, 17 June 2013

Earth, air, fire, water ... and spirit

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The five elements of classical times were earth, air, fire, water and spirit.  To celebrate the solstice this month, the City Daily Porta...
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Saturday, 15 June 2013

Magnificence - coming back

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The facade of the Wedgwood Institute is, by any standards, magnificent. Built 150 years ago in Stoke-on-Trent to house the city's ...
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Thursday, 13 June 2013

Landlord is just a walk-over

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Arthur Rigby was, the story goes, such a popular landlord at The Wheatsheaf Pub in Tunstall that the regulars had this mosaic threshold m...
Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Is it a tree? A camel?

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This tree in Longton Park resembles nothing so much to me as a resting camel... or elephant. How it got its amazing curvature is a myst...