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…

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…