photographs: people, places & things
It is what it is – pictures from being out and about
Visiting Dunham Massey It’s hard to imagine visiting the National Trust property at Dunham Massey and coming away disappointed. With it’s magnificent house and fabulous deer park, Dunham Massey really is a wonderful place. The National Trust property is located in the Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, fairly close to the town of Altrincham. […]
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The Northern Lights. My understanding of the term Aurora Borealis means a pattern of differently coloured lights that are sometimes seen in the night sky. After looking at some pictures snapped on a phone from the inside of a car on a typical wet northern night in Blackpool it struck me that the lights I […]
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Walking on the Pennine Way We recently took a walk on part of the Pennine Way and we thought that whilst that way we might as well try to find the site of the B29 Superfortress that crashed on the moors in 1948. The part of Pennine Way we walked is really easy to get […]
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Cheshire walks. Recently we drove out towards the old Cheshire farming village of Goostrey to take a walk along some of the quiet back roads in that area. After parking up and leaving our car fairly close to the Jodrell Bank Observatory we almost immediately came across some decent photo opportunities of the grouse in […]
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New places to walk. We recently walked along a stretch of the Macclesfield canal in Stockport. The stretch that we walked on is only about 25 minutes away by car from where we live, but despite its proximity its a stretch of canal that is unfamiliar to us. Our walk along the Macclesfield canal started […]
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Catching up. I’m just catching up with some blog posts that I had intended to post in the last week or two. Being busy with one or two other things has meant that it’s only now Im getting round to it. Seasonal changes. One of the benefits of taking a regular walk along familiar routes […]
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Earlier this week we spent some time walking in Macclesfield Forest. It’s an area that is only a 30 minute or so drive from where we live, and yet despite it being so close it’s not a place either of us have been to before. We are blessed with a seemingly endless list of terrific […]
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For many years I have traveled past the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct when I have been on my bikes and when heading through Llangollen, onto the Horseshoe Pass and beyond, but in all those years I have never stopped to investigate it further. Last week however my wife and I drove there to meet my daughter her […]
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What’s not to like about seeing the morning sun as the earth’s motion allows the sun to appear and herald that short twilight dawn period. The pictures in the gallery below are a few of the sunrise over the River Tame and at a location that is typically close to the start of my walking […]
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We headed off to the National Trust site in Formby recently, mainly in the hope of seeing red squirrels in the woodlands that make up part of the National Trust land in that area, which is in the borough of Sefton Merseyside. Formby itself had a pleasant enough town centre to walk around and there […]
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