Yesterday I was over at the complex of wartime concrete buildings and wooden huts that make up Bletchley Park, the site famous for the code-breaking that took place during the Second World War. The main purpose for my visit was to investigate Block H, which houses the National Museum of Computing, but more on that [...]
Thrills at Thorpe Park
May 15, 2011 By
Yesterday I ventured over to Staines, Surrey, to make one of my very rare visits to a theme park. Although it is physically located in Chertsey for those of us who don’t have cars, Thorpe Park is a conveniently short shuttle-bus ride away which you can catch just outside Staines railway station. Thorpe Park was [...]
In Manchester – Silhouettes @ Spinningfields
April 2, 2011 By
Over in the half-finished Spinningfields development in Manchester you’ll find a large group of steel silhouettes -shoppers, footballers and the like. I can’t find a reference to them online so I don’t know who the artist is – if anyone has better investigative powers than I do I’d love to learn more about them…
Brighton – London By The Sea?
March 11, 2011 By
After the event at the Thistle Hotel last night I had to the chance to have a good look around Brighton today. It’s an interesting place, full of contradictions. While the seafront is home to a string of raucous bars, nightclubs and the usual seaside staple of shops full of kiss-me-quick hats and sticks of [...]
Wanted – Bradford, Dead or Alive
March 5, 2011 By
We went over to Bradford today, in order to visit the National Media Museum, The museum is a marvel. Containing a cinema (including an IMAX screen), this modern building has galleries dedicated to computer games, the development of photography and television, and spaces allocated to more short-term exhibitions and education. When we visited today, the [...]
In Yorkshire – Hebden Bridge
January 29, 2011 By
Today we were in the charming little market town of Hebden Bridge, in the Upper Calder Valley in West Yorkshire. Visually, its a very striking place – it’s surrounded on all sides by tall hills and the buildings in the town are made almost uniformly from very attractive yorkstone. Because of the presence of the [...]
Let It Snow!
December 19, 2010 By
Here are a few of the shots that I took on our long walk down to the cinema yesterday afternoon. Believe me, there was a great deal of snow in the West Midlands over the weekend… From Dudley December 2010
