Llandudno is the largest seaside resort in Wales and its pier is also the longest at 2,295 feet.. The current pier, opened to the public on 1 August 1877 is Grade II listed, lined with shops, fairground rides and a café.
Llandudno Pier and Promenade
Categories: Llandudno, Wales
Tags: beach, Llandudno, Llandudno Pier, Llandudno Promenade, sea, seashore, walk
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Throwback Thursday: Bagthorpe Gardens, Nottingham
Bagthorpe Gardens are a community gardens I visited as part of the Heritage Open Day last year. They’ve been cultivated since the 1840s and have Grade II* listing with original hedging and restored bothies (a basic shelter).
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: chicken, fruit, gardens, heritage open day, nottingham, photo post, vegetables
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Colwyn Bay Beach
On one of our days in Wales we stopped off for a walk along the beach at Colwyn Bay. The beach, which stretches for over three miles was very clean and even though it was a sunny afternoon we still had the place mostly to ourselves.
Throwback Thursday: Wollaton Village Dovecote Museum
Wollaton Village’s Dovecote Museum is a little tricky to find though just a short walk from the village and at the end of a cul-de-sac. It’s a small building dating from the 16th century, having been built around 1565 by Sir Francis Willoughby of Wollaton Hall.
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: costumes, dovecote, history, museum, Wollaton, Wollaton Village Dovecote Museum
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Alice in Wonderland Trail, Llandudno
Recently for my birthday we spent a week in Llandudno, Wales (and there will be lots of posts coming up about the many things we did whilst based there). On our first day of wandering around the town we came across the below sculpture of the Queen of Hearts from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was here that I learned that Alice Liddell – the real life inspiration for Carroll’s heroine – spent many summers with her family in Llandudno and her adventures there served as inspiration for many aspects of the books.
Categories: Llandudno, Wales
Tags: Alice, Alice in Wonderland, history, photo post, Queen of Hearts, statue, The Mad Hatter, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, walking trail
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Throwback Thursday: The Nottingham Industrial Museum
The Nottingham Industrial Museum is based in part of the 17th century stable block at Wollaton Hall and as it’s only open on weekends and Bank Holidays it took quite a while before I got around to visiting. It focuses on a wide range of Nottingham industries including lace, bicycles and mining.
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: architecture, Black Boy Hotel, framework knitters, industrial museum, photo post, watson fothergill, Wollaton Hall
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Stonebridge City Farm – May 2018
Over the gloriously sunny Early May Bank Holiday weekend I paid a trip to Stonebridge City Farm to see the lambs, but they also had some young calves and a seriously inquisitive cockerel.
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: angora goat, bird, budgerigar, chicken, cow, farm, farm animals, goat, lamb, photo post, rooster, sheep, stonebridge city farm
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Merchant Adventurer’s Hall, York
The Merchant Adventurer’s Hall is a Grade I listed timber framed building built in around 1357 by a fraternity of York citizens as a charity and business that became the Company of Merchant Adventurers of York in the 16th century.
Categories: England, York, Yorkshire
Tags: architecture, history, Merchant Adventurers, stained glass, stained glass window, timber framed building
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York City Walls
York has the longest and most well preserved medieval walls in England stretching 2 miles around the city. On my trip to York I only did a partial walk around on two separate days, one from Bootham Bar past York Minster and the other over the west corner, passing the railway station to Micklegate Bar.
Categories: England, York, Yorkshire
Tags: jewbury, Jewish history, ruins, view, walls, York, york city walls, York Minster, yorkshire
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Throwback Thursday: Bus Art, Westminster
In 2014 Transport for London, along with businesses and artists created an art trail to celebrate the iconic London bus. All the sculptures were to be auctioned off for charity in 2015 but at least one, Westminster Bus by Jenny Leonard, was still in place in late 2016 when I took these photos.
Categories: England, London
Tags: art, artwork, london, photo post, street art, westminster
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