MIDLANDS.

Click on the thumbnail to go to the page. It goes backwards in time – most recent entry at the top. We’re a bit cavalier about how far ‘The Midlands’ stretches… but then again, so was the Kingdon of Mercia!

 

Oxford, Oxon.

2018. A visit to just three of the many museums in Oxford.

 

Much Wenlock Priory, Salop.

March 2014. Second & successful attempt to visit here.

 

Letocetum, Staffs.

15th December 2012. A Roman way-station near the junction
of Watling Street & Icknield Steet (Lichfield).

 

Moseley Old Hall, Staffs.

13th October 2012. King Charles hid here!

 

Deerhurst, Glos.

7th September 2012. A small village that boasts
two Anglo-Saxon churches!

 

Stratford Canal, Warks.

7th July 2012. Canal aqueduct, near Wootton Wawen.
(There are two on this canal; haven’t seen the other.)

 

Rushall, West Mids.

13th June 2012. Single image from Hay Head Wood LNR.

 

Buildwas Abbey, Salop.

Late May 2012. Only three shots, as we were fleeing
from the Olympic Torch…

 

Baddesley Clinton, Warks.

14th May 2012. 15th century house of the Ferrers family.

 

Tettenhall, West Mids.

26th April 2012. Tettenhall Local Nature Reserve,
along the old GWR rail bed, plus canal.

 

Alrewas, Staffs.

18th April 2012. I mistake the confluence of the Tame & the Trent!

 

Witley Court, Worcs.

Early April 2012. The empty shell of a fine house.

 

Stourbridge, West Mids.

7th March 2012. The Stourbridge branch line & canal.

 

Earlswood, Warks.

Early 2012. Feeder for Stratford canal.

 

Kenilworth, Warks.

14th February 2012. Kenilworth Castle, & Abbey.

 

Wolverhampton, West Mids.

2012. A 1917 memorial in my home town.

 

Witney, Oxon.

19th June 2011. A church near Witney and a walk nearby.

 

Shugborough Hall, Staffs.29th March 2011. Just two images of this grand place.

 

Calke Abbey, Derbys.

 17th February 2011. Only two images; sorry, can’t find the others!

 

Croome Court, Worcs.
2nd January 2011. Blowing away the New Year!

 

Wroxeter -1, Salop.

2nd November 2010. Just two images – the site was closed for the winter.

 

Wroxeter -2, Salop.

~April 2014. A successful re-visit!

 

Ironbridge, Salop.

2nd November 2010. The first iron bridge in the world,
& lots more to see in and around the town!

 

Kingswood Canal Junction, Warks.

30th October 2010. It’s a link between the Birmingham to
Stratford-on-Avon canal & the Grand Union canal.

 

Chedworth, Glos.

20th August 2010. Chedworth Roman Villa.

 

Tardebigge, Worcs.

23rd June 2010. 
The Tardebigge flight of 30 canal locks,
the longest in the U.K.

 

Coughton Court, Warks.

16th May, 2010. Just 3 images, but there are more elsewhere
from a later visit.

 

Wightwick Manor, Staffs.

7th May 2010. One of my very favourite of all
National Trust porperties.

 

Lichfield, Staffs.

4th December 2008. I must have played scores of gigs in Lichfield. But today
was the first time I ever went there just to see the catherdral.