Friday, 30 May 2014

Difficult-to-follow instructions

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I am always careful, when walking in the countryside, to close gates etc ("Observe the Country Code"!) but it's difficult t...
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Wednesday, 28 May 2014

Victoria's post box

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There are very few Victorian post-boxes (or 'wall-boxes', as the type you see in the photo is correctly called) left in Stafford...
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Monday, 26 May 2014

Water living in Hanley

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Touted originally as Stoke-on-Trent's flagship development, the Waterside complex in southern Hanley's 'Canal Quarter' co...
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Saturday, 24 May 2014

A history of graves

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The churchyard at Himley is a microcosm of the history of graveyards.  Though it is comparatively small, it has a long history of buria...
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Thursday, 22 May 2014

It's fake, but I like it

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The county doesn't have a lot of castles, and one or two have been over-restored, so we don't have a great list of them. All are...
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Tuesday, 20 May 2014

Obstinate ducks

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Why these three ducks chose to sit in the middle of this road is beyond me.  On one side they had the lovely pub duck-pond that makes The...
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Sunday, 18 May 2014

A lion to impress

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You can't beat the figure of a lion if you want something to impress onlookers.  This beast is part of an impressive arch over, in co...
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Friday, 16 May 2014

Big words in Tunstall

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They took themselves very seriously, the burghers of old.  Here on the facade of the town hall at Tunstall , one of the great Victorian i...
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Wednesday, 14 May 2014

Mined near Uttoxeter

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It's not just pottery that Staffordshire exported in huge quantities in earlier years.  This pulpit, at St Nicholas Cathedral in Newc...
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Monday, 12 May 2014

Rainbow looks for gold

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The constant showers-rain-showers scenario has produced luxuriant accelerated growth in the fields - and rainbows. This one seems to po...