photographs: people, places & things
FA Cup – semi final 2025 Notts Forest v Manchester City Last weekend it was another trip to Wembley to watch Manchester City play Nottingham Forest in the 2025 FA Cup semi final. A blog post after a trip to Wembley has become a regular event. If looking at people at big events floats your […]
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Catching up and coming soon – more posts on the way. There really is never enough time is there? I’ve just made the most of the good weather by fitting in a quick trip to Scotland – and there will be more of that over on the other blog in the next few days. Last […]
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Heaton Park: close to the city but peaceful at the same time Last time out we had driven over to Whitchurch in Shropshire. On this occasion we made the short 20 minute trip to Heaton Park just a few miles north of the City centre. The park itself is in an area of Manchester known […]
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A visit to Barton Airport and then off for coffee at Tilly’s I’ve just posted about a trip to Barton Aiport followed by a 100 mile round trip for coffee at Tilly’s in Bunbury. Barton airport is a place I’ve written about before on the blog, but this post is to mention the post over on […]
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Wandering around the Shropshire Market town of Whitchurch. During the week we headed off to the historic market town of Whitchurch in Shropshire. The town has quite an interesting past and a few unique quirks. It made quite a contrast to our trip into central Manchester the week before (see this link) About Whitchurch […]
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Manchester – day tripper city centre, backstreets and canals My previous post was quite a contrast to this one. Last time out, I posted about our trip to The Torrs Riverside Park and the Millennium Walkway at New Mills. This time we headed into the central Manchester, a world away from the countryside setting at […]
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Torrs Riverside Park & Millennium Walkway at the Torrs Gorge Located at the town of New Mills the Torrs Gorge is always a decent place to visit. It is genuinely fascinating to see such a mix of geological features and magnificent industrial heritage. I’m not going to write a great deal here as there’s information […]
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Some more wanderings around the antique stores and emporiums My last blog post was written after a visit to a couple of antique emporiums. These were at Blakemere Village and Holden Wood Antiques. Last week we took the opportunity to visit a couple more antique type stores. One of them The Vintage Emporium at Pear […]
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Vintage emporiums: bric a brac, cake … and an old oil can From time to time we like to have a wander and a browse round one or two of the vintage emporiums. I think the last time we were doing that was back in the summer when we had a wander around the Reclaimed […]
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A wander around City Centre Manchester and a picture of Nico It’s a short while since my last post on here, which was back in November after we had returned from a really enjoyable trip to Belgium and Germany. This latest short post picks up from the week before last when we headed off to […]
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