Wednesday, 30 December 2015

Late in the last days

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It's no wonder you get big skies over Flash - for here we are at the top of Staffordshire, and (they say) in the highest inhabited v...
Sunday, 27 December 2015

Ten years - and looking good

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This statue of the airplane designer RJ Mitchell has now completed ten years in situ (it was erected in 1995, the 100th anniversary of M...
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Thursday, 24 December 2015

Late on Xmas Day

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It seems strangely redundant to inform us all that the person in this Cheadle churchyard grave is, umm, the "late" Ralph Ratcl...
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Monday, 21 December 2015

Where the saint stopped

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And so we enter Christmas week...  It's been wet and blowy, though with incredibly mild temperatures.  Nature has gone green again; ...
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Friday, 18 December 2015

Grecian urns in unlikely places

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I've never understood the Victorians' passion for putting Greek urns everywhere.  I appreciate they developed a love for classica...
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Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Sitting on money

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It's plain amazing to think that the Sneyd family had to do very very little to 'earn' this huge hall.  The land they owned j...
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Saturday, 12 December 2015

Armadillo out of the ground

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The Lidice 'Unearthed' Monument in Haney has already been dubbed (affectionately one hopes) the 'Armadillo' by locals. ...
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Wednesday, 9 December 2015

Big enough for a horse

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Gailey Top Lock has a full two-tunnel structure near it, with the pedestrian tunnel as big as the canal tunnel - which is fairly rare. Th...
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Sunday, 6 December 2015

Blymhill's vomiting lion

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This little monster is part of the reason that Blymhill Church in south Staffordshire is one of Simon Jenkins' '1000 Best Chur...
Thursday, 3 December 2015

Flaxman looks down

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It's a bit of a surprise to see John Flaxman up there on the exterior walls of The Victoria and Albert Museum in London.  He isn'...
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