Southend Pier Railway

The original wooden pier in Southend was built in 1830 and by 1851 it had acquired a horse-drawn tramway taking…

Street Art on Sea

During our recent visit to Southend, we found an amazing set of Street art pictures

Shrewsbury: Rowley’s House

    William Rowley, a Draper by trade, came from the area around Bridgenorth. His family, however, had been recorded…

They Called It Passchendaele​

Originally posted on Stephen Liddell:
For the last three years or so, I have been post occasional extracts from my WW1…

Naturelog: 28th July

At present both the Big Butterfly count and the national Dragonfly survey are both running and so I decided to…

Naturelog: 26th July

On Wednesday Keith and I went on a boat trip up the River Medway from Rochester and across the Thames…

All aboard for Southend

On Wednesday Keith and I travelled aboard the Jacob Marley from Rochester Pier up the River Medway and across the River Thames…

Predicting the weather with Old Wives Tales

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Most of us are familiar with Old Wives Tales, traditional pearls of wisdom from sources lost…

Return to the Para-Athletics World Championships

Here are some pictures from the second Visit Sue and I made to the World Para-Athletics Championships at the Olympic…

Hokusai exhibition

Yesterday evening Sue and I went to see the exhibition of Japanese art by Katsushika Hokusai at the British Museum.…