Wightwick Manor is a relatively modern house (National Trust) – but a good subject for the camera on this afternoon of bright sunshine and clear blue skies (between the clouds, that is). Hard to believe we’re less than 3 miles from the centre of Wolverhampton…
Month: May 2010
Warm weather on the Wenlock Edge
At last! The car told me it was 82 degrees in the old money – about 27.5C – as we drove the short distance home. It had certainly been hot in the sunshine, though most of our walk was pleasantly cool amongst the trees. Still plenty of bluebells, and a fair smattering of early purple orchids. The air seemed too clear for settled warm weather though, and the forecast is for a cool down over the coming week
The other Manchester tramway
Manchester had a tramway many years ago, long before Metrolink – sadly it closed as long ago as 1949. A tiny fragment remains, and is active, in Heaton Park, in Manchester’s northern suburbs. Visit “Heaton Park Tramway” on “Geoff’s Rail Diaries” for the usual illustrated account of this short visit (on a day when many of the northern steam railways seemed to be running trains with faces…)
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