(originally written on Jul 4, 2021) It’s strange how a place can feel so quiet and set apart from the real world, even when there’s a busy road […]

(originally written on Jul 3, 2021) The effigy of Alice de Vere, Countess of Oxford, lies in eternal chilly splendour in a building known as the Chapel in […]

(originally written on May 16, 2021) It’s a wet Saturday in Chester, and the rain hangs low over the city as it persistently drenches the crowds of people […]

(originally written on Feb 14, 2021) During this current lockdown, I have felt hard pressed to try and come up with a daily walk that is not too […]

(originally written on Dec 2, 2020) Today I came across a sad and neglected relic of the Victorian age, in the shape of what would appear to be […]

(originally written on Oct 14, 2020 and updated today, April 6, 2024) Leamington Spa is an attractive and genteel town situated between Coventry and Stratford on Avon in […]

(originally written on Sep 7, 2020) The entrance to Longton Cemetery is guarded by what were once magnificent iron gates, made at the Coalbrookdale Foundry in Ironbridge, and […]

(originally written on Sep 15, 2019) By the side of the busy A34 at Trentham stands a most unusual building, the Sutherland Mausoleum, a monolithic memorial for the […]

(originally written on Aug 27, 2019) For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by the frequently life-sized carved effigies of the long-since departed, who […]

(originally written on Aug 1, 2019) This house would have looked somewhat different in 1911, but it remains for the most part broadly similar to the dwelling in […]