May 2021

(Apologies for poor spelling in previous blog). Above is a photo taken in the Shrub Hill area of Worcester showing a viaduct carrying the Worcester to Hereford rail-line over a section of the Birmingham to Wocester canal, an unusual feature of the viaduct being the hole in the viaduct above the archway giving access through […]

Above = geese on Camp House site (s.p.b.s). Walking the Riverside footpath from Camp House into Worcester I came across a relatively new metal footbridge over the River Severn just north of the Georgian road bridge. Seeing the footbridge was called the ‘Sabrina’ bridge I wondered what the connection was between it and the 1950s

As mentioned earlier in the week there is what I call a ‘hutment colony’, although now mostly caravans, near Camp House (s.p.b.s) beside the River Severn. The photo shows one substantial hutment. Hutment ‘colonies’ often developed after the Great War in the 1920s, sometimes earlier, in an age before strict planning regulations came into force.

At the Camp House (s.p.b.s) the waters of the River Severn are always flowing downstream, the extent of the tidal impact on the flow of the River being from the Severn Estuary upstream to Gloucester. The Severn Bore, a moving wave pushing upstream, also does not reach Worcester. The ‘Bore’ results from spring-tides pushing water

(I still don’t understand why some pictures come up sideways when they are the right way up on the desktop), anyway another photo of the lane from Hallow to the bank of the River Severn at Camp House (s.p.b.s). So why a young mature oak tree? – simply because they are now uncommon in eastern

Although I have no definative evidence I think that, in this part of Worcestershire at least, the River Severn has an incised river valley. This means that the original river valley is left ‘high and dry’ when changes in sea level or earth movements cause the river to start eroding a new river valey within