Another walk home from work (Digbeth) starting on Garrison Street, passing the Birmingham City Mission building on Langdon Street with it’s really useful four-sided clock tower, each of which displays a different, wrong, time ! Taking a side street off Landor Street (Clarel Avenue) brought me to this huge pile of junk ! Proceeding along…

As I may have mentioned in an earlier blog, I started a new job on Monday and having tools and other stuff to take into work and get sorted, I have had to use the car. Today was the first day that I was able to go car-less and enjoy a walk home. I cadged…

Needed to get for some fresh air so took a short drive to nearby Shard End for a chance to walk a few more Brummie streets. I chose a distinctive piece from the map… I parked at the recently redeveloped Shard End shops and started my walk. Lots of houses built from the 1940’s up…

After getting off the bus in the city centre, I filled in a few gaps from Monday including the little known, Dingley’s Passage which, at present, ends at a building site some twenty metres after it’s start. Then it was a short stroll along New Meeting Street back to Dale End. I made my way…

So far, every walk that I’ve done, I’ve tracked with my Garmin Forerunner 230 GPS watch. This is automatically saved to Endomondo on completion. The resultant track (.GPX) is imported into Google My Maps where, although very messy, serves as a guide to where I’ve been. On a fresh layer, I will trace the route…