Today’s Trace After a morning’s sleep, after a night’s work, I took a couple of buses and ended up in Sparkhill. Sparkhill, was named after Spark Brook, a little stream which originally ran from Moseley into the River Cole at what is now The Ackers Trust. Spark Hill was a hill near the brook. It…

No – Not THAT Sheldon ! Today, en-route to my last day at my current job, I stopped off in the Birmingham district of Sheldon. Sheldon is on the eastern border of Brum, next to Solihull and Birmingham Airport. Today’s area is mainly housing with a small shopping centre at The Radleys. After parking the…

Gateway to Birmingham On nights and was fast asleep until around 12 when the phone rang. “Hello”, I said, groggily.“Hello, Our records indicate that you were involved in an acci…” I hung up After half an hour, trying to drift back to the land of Nod, I gave up, got dressed and grabbed a bite…

There’s no time like the present. I decided to get an A-Z of Birmingham so that I’ve got a hard copy of where I’ve been. I caught the bus into the city centre and started my GPS watch to track where I’d walked. I started here, on the junction of Corporation Street and The Priory…

Of all the miles of tarmac, concrete, stone and brick that are laid down in Birmingham, which should I be walking? The pavements alongside roads Fairly obvious (?) – These will make up the vast bulk of my walking. I won’t be walking both sides, I just need to walk the road. Motorways and other…