The Romans built a stone fort in the NW corner of the Londinium settlement. Work appears to have commenced around…
Prehistoric footprints
Another fascinating exhibit in the Bones and Stones exhibition at the Library of Birmingham was a ‘pavement’ covered with prehistoric…
Naturelog: 31st March
I have been putting off the weekly survey walk around the Tarn in the hope that I might get a…
Stones and Bones
With sometime to kill in Birmingham on Saturday before my train left for London, I went to the new Library…
Staffordshire Hoard
Folded golden Cross Photo from Portable Antiquities scheme (https://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/) A long lunch break during a meeting in Birmingham last Saturday…
Statues and Memorials in London: Alien
Alien by the British artist David Breuer-Weil is a 25 ft tall Bronze cast to be found in Grosvenor Gardens…
Naturelog: Thursday 26th
A couple of hours between meetings in Central London gave me time for a visit to Regents Park to see…
Cheltenham
925 Cheltenham was one of 40 ‘Schools Class’ locomotives built for the Southern Region and which were the most powerful…
Statues and Memorials in London: Speke Memorial
John Hanning Speke was an army officer who in December 1856 joined the expedition led by Richard Burton to find…
Now How do I eat this?
A sequence of pictures shot of a young Grey Heron eating a frog. Going Going Gone Shot at Regents Park…
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