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The Re-Taking of NX34 with the Old Place of Monreith

1 days ago

NX34 http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NX34 was initially completed on the 5th July 2010 by RH Dengate http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/14794 with a picture taken of The Farm lane south of Barwinnock Photo My planned journey on the 23rd April 2012 to the area therefore, was to complete another personal square in the Machars and bag the inevitable 2nd Geograph. Getting back home and checking my pictures and GPS it became clear that the first awarded to complete the hectad was...

Posted by Andy Farrington + on Tue, 15 May Read More...

Back to the Thames

2 days ago

Kelmscott a place I had seen on the map and heard about from a friend and also in the middle of a walk I needed to do to log the remaining pillboxes along the Thames so after finally working out how to visit them I set out. The plan was to do my last section in two half’s due to not having a partner to help out in the logistics (IE car both ends), it turned out to be the right way. The first part was to walk towards Radcot, then in a couple of weeks go towards Lechlaid. Kelmscott is a...

Posted by Bill Nicholls + on Mon, 14 May Read More...

Time marches and Aprils on

10 days ago

January and February were relatively devoid of my favourite type of steamy industrial archaeology but the last two months have seen a worthy improvement. March started with an evening visit to Worcester University to see parts of the old infirmary and then to partake of a black tie dinner in Worcester Guildhall Photo Photo. The first weekend saw me arranging a complex two day visit with Ashley Dace in order to get him to some marvellous sites in Greater Manchester. We...

Posted by Chris Allen + on Sun, 6 May Read More...

The spring is here

15 days ago

Now the figures are in I see people do actually read my blogs here, so will keep going. The clocks going forward have now given me back my freedom, the dark months saw me consolidate areas with green patches, and am now about 10 short of my first full hectad when I get round to doing the rest of it. Having spent a year previously on Geograph-specific trips am now running out of many under 50 miles, so the stakes are rising as each new target is further away than the previous one. But I have...

Posted by David Howard + on Tue, 1 May Read More...

Five Months Late

16 days ago

Wow, didn't meant to slip this late. My usual is one blog a month or so. Things have been a little slow recently but now i'm just about caught up, a few more to upload but i'll get on with those later. So my last blog left off in December, I was writing about my plans to visit the Great Central Railway gala. I spent two days up on the line, the first was a friday and two wheels was the mode of transport. The plan was to treat it as a geographing trip so I got in a few extra sites like the...

Posted by Ashley Dace + on Mon, 30 Apr Read More...

Geologising on the Isle of Rum

19 days ago

Undaunted by the experience of the rain the same weekend five years ago, I signed up for a weekend field trip with the Highland Geological Society to see something of the famous geology of the Isle of Rùm. Most of the group were to arrive on the ferry leaving Mallaig at 7.30 on the Saturday morning, but I reckoned that would mean getting up far too early, and I thought I'd go over on the Thursday and, weather permitting, walk to Harris and back on Friday. But the best laid plans .... I...

Posted by Anne Burgess + on Sat, 28 Apr Read More...

Another bit of the Jigsaw

19 days ago

Sunday the 22nd saw me go back to Newbury to find the final bit of the Jigsaw that is the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton railway. My wife came along with our young dog to give him some time out to get used to a different place and water. We parked at Newbury Parkway shopping centre which gave me a chance to update some photo’s of the New John Lewis store Photo before setting off along the Kennet Photo. As I had not been along this section it was all new to me and seeing all...

Posted by Bill Nicholls + on Fri, 27 Apr Read More...

Barradale Circular, Islay

24 days ago

I was excited as I set off on the day's plan C. Plan A had been abandoned as it was just too photogenic a day to go to a certain village on Islay which I won't mention for fear of insulting the hundreds of folks (!) who read these blogs! Plan B had been abandoned after driving 15 miles to Ardbeg in the thickening cloud which turned into heavy rain and which was no doubt a retribution for rejecting Plan A. So Plan C had to be put into operation. But first to devise Plan C as it wasn't in...

Posted by Becky Williamson + on Sun, 22 Apr Read More...

Giur-bheinn Circular, Islay

26 days ago

As always, I had scrutinised the weather forecast for days before deciding to head up Giùr-bheinn on Wednesday, 18th April 2012. As always, the forecast was not quite accurate, but at least I didn't end up getting drenched as our church party did on their walk on the same day on the Rhinns (my symapthies to them of course!) Giùr-bheinn is a fascinating, if diminutive, mountain. Viewed from the east, as it generally is, it appears as a gentle mound, hardly noticeable in mountain terms. From...

Posted by Becky Williamson + on Fri, 20 Apr Read More...

One of those fill In Days

28 days ago

Sunday the 8th was one of those fill in days for me. I never had any plans to go anywhere so thought I’d fill in a few of the places on my Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway map. I had go as far as Shaw near Newbury and now needed to trace the route over the two water courses and onto the main railway. Stopping off at Shaw I parked up near the River Lambourn and walked along the path to see if any of the bridge remained. On getting near I noticed a footbridge had been built near where...

Posted by Bill Nicholls + on Wed, 18 Apr Read More...

Exploring the water mills of the Loxley valley

1 months ago

A group of Geograph-ers met again the morning after the Geograph conference to walk the Loxley valley from Malin Bridge to Stacey Bank. Alan Murray-Rust had prepared a map and factsheet for each participant showing the locations of all the former mills along the way. Setting off from the tram stop, we soon left the road and followed a footpath along the river, seeing the sites of Wisewood Photo rolling mill and forge on the way. The rolling mill at Little Matlock Photo is...

Posted by Rudi Winter + on Wed, 11 Apr Read More...

Along the Sheffield Tinsley Canal into Sheffield

1 months ago

On the Tue afternoon before the Geograph conference, a group of Geograph-ers met at Meadowall South / Tinsley tram stop for a walk along the canal to its terminus at Sheffield Canal Basin on the edge of the city centre. The walk passes a flight of locks at the Tinsley end Photo to take the canal up towards industrial Attercliffe Photo. The canal then runs in a fairly deep trench, with the tram and several foot and road bridges crossing it at considerable height...

Posted by Rudi Winter + on Tue, 10 Apr Read More...

Storakaig to the Sound of Islay

1 months ago

It wasn't the first time it had happened. XC Weather had got it wrong before. 8% cloud at 10 am had really meant 80% on at least one other occasion. Feeling slightly hard done to, and exchanging my favoured polariser filter for a regular skylight filter, I decided to go for it anyway. Those squares on the east coast of Islay had been waiting long enough! The poor lighting meant at least I got further quicker, stopping only to take the requisite photos, and rarely for any additional 'bonus'...

Posted by Becky Williamson + on Sun, 8 Apr Read More...

When cameras behave badly

1 months ago

My 6 year old Olympus compact digital has known limits, and if I keep within them (shots at night, moving objects etc) I get perfectly good results. But about two years ago it (OK, I had dropped it a while before) it froze during a little film I was making and had to format the card. Ever since it's done the same about twice a year, but each fault was different, and my father offered the obvious solution to carry a spare card which I now do. It's previously lost (initially) all my takings...

Posted by David Howard + on Tue, 3 Apr Read More...

Ballimartin to Airigh Mairi Thormaid, Islay

1 months ago

I think it was on the walk before I discovered Geograph that I first saw Màiri Thormaid's shieling. I was more interested at that time in getting to the top of Beinn Bhreac to acquire another Islay trigpoint than I was in remote Islay ruins. Then I discovered Geograph and began to be interested in these old, remote ruins. They are so evocative of a time gone by, of a different way of life and of previous inhabitants of this beautiful island. So I set off on a glorious, almost cloud-free...

Posted by Becky Williamson + on Fri, 30 Mar Read More...

A walk round Kings Somborne.

1 months ago

Has the sound of a rural community about it and was a place I had heard about for a while as my wife had been there dog training, so when she said she was off there again one Saturday I said I would come along. I looked on my OS maps for the place to see what was worth visiting and to plan a route to take. We got to the village hall Photo around 9 and by 9:15 I was checking my map for which way to go and setting the GPS, the offer of going off road in a 4X4 though tempting did not...

Posted by Bill Nicholls + on Fri, 23 Mar Read More...

Travelling along the Didcot to Newbury Line

2 months ago

This is a project I have had going for a while and am in the process of writing an article for I had been meaning to get round to catching up with more photos for a while and today seemed like the time to do this. The area to cover went from Hermitage to Thatcham and to my shame had to be covered by driving from place to place; even this took around two hours. The first place to stop was just outside Hermitage by the M4 embankment this is where the Didcot to Newbury railway was cut in two...

Posted by Bill Nicholls + on Mon, 12 Mar Read More...

The lower Ystwyth gorge and Ysbyty Ystwyth

2 months ago

14 Jan 2012 From the little car park near the sawmill at the downstream end of the Ystwyth gorge, this walk leads steeply up through forest Photo on the southern side of the gorge, following forest tracks through Coed Craig-yr-Ogof Photo until open land is reached Photo and Ysbyty Ystwyth comes into sight Photo. After a pleasant descent with good views Photo of what once was the valley of the upper Teifi...

Posted by Rudi Winter + on Sun, 11 Mar Read More...

2012 - A Good Start

2 months ago

The first two months of 2012 have slipped by and I've done very little of my beloved stationary steam but have managed to keep busy and when I get round to March I have some good stuff to share. The year started in Devon with friends visiting my sister's holiday home. first up was Sidmouth on a miserable New Year's day Photo. The following day we had lunch in Lympstone Photo before returning home to resume the day job on the Tuesday. Casting about for a new experience, I...

Posted by Chris Allen + on Thu, 8 Mar Read More...

Bolsa via Bunnahabhain and Beinn Thrasda, Islay

2 months ago

This was another of the many walks I've walked through on the map many times, and which I've done parts of several times. I'd been checking the forecast all week and the day I chose to do it in reality dawned bright with cumulus clouds dotted promisingly across the sky. I started from Bunnahbhain, walking down to the deer gate Photo and then to the Margadale River, which is one of my favourite views on Islay. Photo The walk up to Rubh' a' Mhail lighthouse is one I have done...

Posted by Becky Williamson + on Wed, 7 Mar Read More...

Little Quest

2 months ago

So I've had what I think is a wonderfully eccentric idea..... Over the next few years i'll endeavour to visit and geograph one square for each of the 45 or so myriads on the UK mainland. The twist is that the particular grid square for each myriad will be selected completely randomly using a web-based random number generator to select a number between 0 and 9999 which will be added to the myriad prefix to decide the square I have to visit. A different random number to be generated for each...

Posted by Gary Rogers + on Mon, 5 Mar Read More...

Geograph blocks pinterest.com pinning

2 months ago

Geograph have just instigated a policy of blocking pinning on http://pinterest.com/ This means users of the service will not be able to directly pin images from the Geograph websites. This is motivated by the fact that the method of copying images that pinterest uses, does not promote honoring the Creative Commons licence. The Creative Commons licences exists to actively promote and allow responsible reuse of content - in exchange for attribution. From a technical standpoint pinterest...

Posted by Barry Hunter + on Sat, 3 Mar Read More...

Tick tick tick

2 months ago

Photo Juggling times, places and people — sorting the conference has to be a bit like running a railway station. All the good people planning to attend, most of the presenters, the helpers and the laid-back folk at the Circle Photo will have been relieved not to have had an email from me today. We have the date, we have the venue, we have 95% of the programme. I still have to order some biscuits Photo but otherwise it's almost put to bed. I can think about more important...

Posted by Robin Stott + on Thu, 1 Mar Read More...

Poor pickings

2 months ago

My travels of late have not been up to much and an update from Newbury parkway Photo Photoalong with a short trip along the Upton cutting Photo Photo and some local photo's Photo Photo Photo near me only meant that I should get out again. Sunday proved nice and sunny if with a hint of cold in the air. Time for another quick walk along the river Kennet. My next walk would take from Woolhampton for a couple of miles to Migeham Lock and...

Posted by Bill Nicholls + on Wed, 29 Feb Read More...

Circular Walk to and from Ardbeg, via Solam, Loch Uigeadail and Tighnaspeur, Islay

2 months ago

The walk started from the phone box at Ardbeg, along the track to Airigh nam Beist and then northwest to Solam, rather than northeast to Loch Iarnan as on a previous walk. Solam is known as the plague village on Islay because it is where plague victims were banished to keep them away from healthy Islay residents Photo. I have yet to find the carved faces, flat stone and wishing well mentioned by Armin Grewe in his blog: http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/scotland2004islay/solam.htm....

Posted by Becky Williamson + on Sun, 26 Feb Read More...