Just over a week ago I took a walk around Woodthorpe Grange Park as I wanted to photograph the changing of the leaves. A surprising number were still green but there were also some beautuifl reds and golds on display.
Autumn at Woodthorpe Grange Park
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: british wildlife, nature, nottingham, park, photo post, squirrel, trees, walk, wildlife, woodthorpe grange park
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Throwback Thursday: All Saint’s Parish Church, Leamington Spa
Built in 1842 this Grade II listed church designed in the Gothic Revival Style, is close to Jephson Gardens and the Royal Pump Rooms. It is one of England’s largest parish churches.
Categories: England, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
Tags: architecture, church, history, photo post, statue, Throwback Thursday
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Squirrels
We’ve had a couple of squirrel visitors in our garden for several months now. One of them looks perfectly healthy, the other has an injury and at one point all of the fur on his right paw was missing, but now that seems to have grown back. Only the last photo shows the squirrel’s injury clearly, so if you’d rather not see that then simply stop scrolling after photo number five.
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: animals, british wildlife, nature, nottingham, photo post, squirrel
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Throwback Thursday: The Severn’s Building, Nottingham
A Grade II listed building, it dates from around 1450 and is one of the few remaining medieval buildings in the city. It used to be located near Middle Pavement, roughly near the old Broadmarsh Shopping Centre, but was moved closer to Nottingham Castle in 1970. Originally a merchant’s house it then became officers for a firm of architects, a wine business and then a lace museum; I’m not actually sure what use it has now.
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: architecture, history, local history, nottingham, photo post, Throwback Thursday
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Clumber Park
Last week we decided to go for a walk around the lake at Clumber Park. Run by the National Trust entry is free for members (which we are) or £5 for an adult. The park spans 3,800 acres and was quite busy; we had to park in the overflow car park which we’ve never had to do before, but as it’s so large it never felt crowded at any point, and at plenty of sections there was no one else around at all.
Categories: England, Nottinghamshire
Tags: duck, national trust, nature, park, photo post, raven, walk
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Throwback Thursday: Amsterdam Centraal Station
Located in the heart of Amsterdam, Centraal Station was built between 1881 and 1889 and designed by Petrus J. H. “Pierre” Cuypers – Cuypers also designed the Rijksmuseum.
Categories: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tags: architecture, photo post, Pierre Cuypers, Throwback Thursday, train station
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Gedling Country Park
Last week I decided to head out to Gedling Country Park as the weather was bright and sunny and I’d realised that I could get a bus straight to the Spring Lane entrance. There are a few different walks around the site so I decided to do two of the ones I hadn’t done on my last visit, the Top Hard which has some steep inclines through a wooded area and the Low Hazels which is the longest route.
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: country park, nature, nature trail, nottingham, park, photo post, statue, view, walk
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Throwback Thursday: Radio City Tower, Liverpool
Radio City Tower, or St John’s Beacon to give it its proper name, is a radio and observation tower that was built in 1969. You can, in normal times, head here to get what I imagine are brilliant views of the city and also as the tower is still a working radio tower you can see the studios, though of course you can’t go in them.
Categories: England, Liverpool, Merseyside
Tags: architecture, history, photo post, Throwback Thursday
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Titus: T.Rex is King Exhibition, Wollaton Hall
The Titus: T.Rex is King Exhibition at Wollaton Hall is the first time that a real T.Rex skeleton has been on display in England for at least 100 years and the first time that this particular skeleton, which was excavated from Montana by Craig Pfister in 2018 has ever been put on public display.
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: dinosaur, history, museum, nottingham, photo post, skeleton, t.rex, Wollaton Hall
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Throwback Thursday: Old Barclays Bank, Alfreton Road, Nottingham
No longer a branch of Barclays Bank, this building dates from 1902 and was designed by local architect Lawrence Bright.
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: architecture, history, local history, nottingham, photo post
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