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St Kilda – An Enchanting Island In The West

May 26, 2021 VickyP

A few years ago while I was exploring the Hebrides, I stood on top of a small west facing hill. The weather was unusually calm and sunny, with a low mist skimming the sea. As I gazed out over the Atlantic, a sudden clearing in the mist revealed what I can only describe as a […]

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Changing Landscapes

September 23, 2020 VickyP

The change in season brings with it many delights and yet there are some areas that on occasion turn from foreboding landscapes into fascinating scenes of vibrant colour and light. On a summers evening in August the Cat and Fiddle road that connects Buxton to Macclesfield was a delight to traverse necessitating a stop just […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Breadsall Mount

February 27, 2019 VickyP

Breadsall was one of the villages immediately surrounding Derby that so far has escaped being absorbed by the ever-expanding city below it and to the south, although a considerable amount of land on the southern edge of the parish was absorbed in 1921 and is now host to the Breadsall Hill Top estate, created through […]

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Places of Interest on Either Side of The Lower Wye & Severn Valleys

January 3, 2019 VickyP

Beyond Birmingham and before reaching Bristol on the way to the south west, travellers using the M5 gateway to the sun often find themselves in one of the all too frequent bottlenecks, especially around the M5/M60 junction. If they give up and decide to call it a day around Junction 9 (Tewksbury), then the possibility […]

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Yorkshire’s Dangerous Coast

June 27, 2018 VickyP

Most of the visitors who flock to Yorkshire’s coast every summer, do so without realising that it has a history of marine tragedy reaching back over the centuries and it is hard to realise that an average of two shipwrecks a week have taken place along the North East coast since records began in the […]

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Deserted Villages

March 30, 2017 BrianSpencer

Up and down the land the remains of abandoned villages can only be recognised by a comment on an Ordnance Survey map. There are around 3000 sites of such places up and down the country where the words Medieval Village in Gothic type with the words ‘site of’ in brackets underneath record all that is […]

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Around Poole Harbour

June 10, 2016 Steve Orme

Travellers to Cherbourg and the Channel Islands will no doubt, be aware of the ferry service from Poole. This alternative route starts from the wide expanse of Poole Harbour, the second largest natural harbour in the world. Unfortunately unlike Sydney Harbour the depth of water prevents Poole from handling a greater volume of traffic. It […]

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Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter

May 29, 2015 Alistair Plant

Across from Birmingham’s New Street Station and past the city’s incongruous statue better known as the ‘Floozy in the Jacuzzi’ signposts point the way past the massive buildings housing the Council House and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. The direction we were following was to the Jewellery Quarter. Until the rapid expansion brought about by […]