Category: Walks

The day started early in Cirencester, where our Chartist Allen Davenport was a cobbler before he married Mary, And moved to London, where the writings of Thomas Spence Led him into revolutionary politics, writing, and action – But that was less on my mind than fin read more

I arrive at William Cobbett’s rotten borough of Cricklade: ‘I passed through that villainous hole … the labourers look very poor, dwellings little better than pig beds and their food nearly equal to that of a pig. This Wiltshire is a horrible county.’ But last January, read more

Buddleia in broad gauge bloom down on Stroud station, Crazy golf flags out at the Brunel Goods Shed, The 9.08 to Paddington (1966 and all that in the newspapers), Then the Bakerloo to Oxford Circus, And early doors into the Argyll Arms (‘Example of fin de siècle social read more

Walking and/or Cycling: Roads and Lanes not Fields Sometimes, I like to walk paths, lanes and roads, rather than the fields: a route that can also be cycled on another occasion; or held in reserve for a wet winter spell, when the fields are waterlogged. The following is read more

It was eleven o’clock, on a sunshine Sunday in July, When we gathered together to way-fare through time, In Bristol, at Temple Meads station forecourt: The carriage doors of remembrance troop trains Slamming shut, as whistles blew To take troops over the top, To a new e read more

The walk into town from Coronation Road is seemingly nondescript, It’s easy to ignore the street names’ indication of their dates of construction: Coronation Road, King’s Road, Queen’s Road – The death of Edward, the accession of George; It’s easy to miss the interplay read more