Another walk to Oldbury. Started at the same point as yesterday but set off along Woodcock Street past what I remember as Woodcock Street Baths but is now called The Sir Doug Ellis Woodcock Sports Centre. Many a Saturday morning was spent splashing around here, back in the day, in my mis-spent youth! After a…
My other half was working in Oldbury so I arranged to meet her after work which meant that I had a good excuse to walk West of the city centre. Getting off my bus a couple of stops before the terminus enabled me to fill in a gap along the A47 as it passes Birmingham…
It was a little over a month ago that I had to drop the wife’s car in for a service. During the service, I took the opportunity to go for a little walk (17 miles). Today it was the other car’s turn and I duly drop it off at Lookers, Star City, around 8am. By…
During an earlier session around Shard End (Aug 1st 2016) I’d, somehow, managed to miss this little road (Shepherds Standing) so stopped off on the way to work to walk it. That’s all !
A bit of a jaunt, today, starting in the bottom, left-hand corner, on the Birmingham / Worcestershire boundary. I caught the 47 bus from Birmingham City Centre getting off at Cofton Park. Trying to walk as close to the border as possible, I diverted from the main Groveley Road to the more suburban Nuthurst Road…