When the evening cloud becomes Severn Light
When the evening clouds shroud the western hills, And a sheet of rain makes its mist-path up the vale, The silver line of the Severn always lights your way: A lantern of water making its way to the...
Walking Swindon’s Canals
Walking Canals in Swindon It was inevitably a bit George Bowling, A bit Coming up for Air, Walking streets from which we once train-spotted, Cries of disbelief at seeing diesel railcars still in chocolate and cream, Waiting their turn for the scrapyard, Marooned for...
As The Morning Developed…
As the morning developed, the promise of a fine day was fulfilled; and after we passed the brick-kiln country near Brentford, we proceeded in a zig-zag direction towards Uxbridge and Rickmansworth. The further we went … a feeling of admiration for the picturesque...
The Stroudwater Navigation
The Stroudwater Navigation Come, since the day’s for joy design’d, Let all cares be left behind, And universal pleasure bind! Adieu to all vexation; No more let fears and doubts prevail, Nor our hopes and spirits fail, For though we see not yet the sail, We have the...
The Mill Race
When you sit by the mute, still, mill race, With swallows swooping low over a surface Like glass, it’s easy to miss the water’s whispers. I don’t mean the oozing and splashes, The swish of the fish or the wind in the rushes, I mean the tales of long ago when weir And...
The Flower of Gloster
THE FLOWER OF GLOSTER by Temple Thurston 1912 ‘…desolate though the Thames and Severn may now be, it has such beauties as I shall ever remember … the topmost lock of the Golden Valley, where the Sapperton Tunnel pierces its dark way into the very heart of the hills …...