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(originally written on Jul 19, 2019) Beneath the Inner Ring Road,as it passes the end of Watergate Street, lie the foundations of the handsome Yacht Inn, demolished in […]

(originally written on Jun 9, 2019) The reconstructed Victorian street known as Kirkgate, which has been situated in York’s Castle Museum since 1938, contains much of interest. At […]

(originally written on May 24, 2019) A couple of weeks ago we paid a visit to the dramatic ruins of Haughmond Abbey, a 12th century Augustinian monastery which […]

(originally written on May 4, 2019) There is much demolition going on in Hanley at the moment – after a number of false starts, much prevarication and abandonment […]

(originally written on Sep 21, 2018) I visited St. Mary’s Church at Astbury, just outside Congleton, yesterday. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say I visited […]

(originally written on Aug 10, 2018) In the quire of St. Mary’s church, Warwick, stands an impressive medieval monument, its base girded round with male and female mourners […]

(originally written on Aug 9, 2018) The collegiate church of Saint Mary in Warwick is a treasure trove of wonderful things of interest to the traveller, not least […]

(originally written on Apr 23, 2018) If the path to hell is, as is supposed to be, paved with good intentions, then surely my route there is already […]

(originally written on March 18, 2018) The picture shows a row of houses at the bottom of the road where I lived for the first 18 years of […]

(originally written on Mar 16, 2018) Quite some time since I wrote on here : a dismal Christmas marred by debt and ill-feeling cast miserable shadows into the […]