Just photos – no particular theme
Buildwas and Wroxeter: taking it easy on a grey day. There’s tranquility in the ruins of the abbey, the stones of the great pillars warm on this dull afternoon. Wroxeter feels altogether more bleak, though the colour in the replica villa brightens the scene wonderfully.
Buildwas Abbey EH; Wroxeter Roman City EH
A delightful name – it’s no more than a few houses and a farm, a mile or so out of Broseley. By comparison, the hamlet of Willey is a positive metropolis – it’s even got a village hall. Other than a couple of cars on the two short stretches of road, I’ve got this quiet corner of Shropshire to myself this afternoon.
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Thursday 18 July: it’s a fine, bright evening, and we’re having a wander with the camera on the Wenlock Edge near Much Wenlock. We walk up the stone-floored lane, along the crest almost as far as the main road, and return through the woodland and the old quarries, past Stokes Barn and back to the car. The fields and hedgerows are colourful now – and there are lots of pyramidal orchids to catch the eye.
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It’s a still, calm evening; the cooling air feels heavy. We’ll follow the road alongside the woods, and the track through the trees to the trig point – just the thing for a gentle leg-stretch.
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A quick lunch, followed by a wander with the camera, around the estate and in some of the lesser buildings.
Sunday 7 July: It’s a major route – the A435 – heading southwards from the centre of Birmingham. Well known in those parts – but how well know is the little Warwickshire town to which it leads? We’d never been, but it looked like a potentially-interesting place to visit, on our way home from the Evesham gala. Was it interesting? Judge for yourselves! (I suspect we’ll be back, probably on a weekday when the shops are open)
For more photos, and a brief account of yesterday’s trip to the Evesham Vale Railway’s gala, visit “Owl and Katie” on Geoff’s Rail Diaries
…are two fine 15″ gauge locomotives which have been visiting the Evesham Vale Light Railway this weekend. We were there for some of the fun and games, but the “Rail Diaries” page will have to wait until tomorrow. In the meantime, the accompanying photo will have to do.
Weds. 3 July: a short wander from Benthall Hall. There’s lots of colour in the fields and hedgerows, and later, it’s pleasantly cool under the trees of Benthall Edge, with views down to the doomed cooling towers, and Ironbridge. Back at the hall, the ice creams are perfect, though I’m not sure we’ve really earned them.
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Just published to Geoff’s Rail Diaries, an account – and lots of pictures – of Sunday’s visit to Newcastle-under-Lyme, to the Apedale “Swords into Ploughshares” event. Visit “Apedale 1919” – in 2019…
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