Author name: Richard Clarke

And finally before going on to three blogs about Worcester Cathedral, a section of the canal towpath (s.p.b.) not far from the canal basin and viewed south. The reason for taking this picture was to remind me that along the stretch of the wall at the right of the picture I found seven different types […]

The canal basin of the Birmingham to Worcester Canal, view west from the road bridge over the canal basin entrance. Imagine that full of cargo carrying barges. This in the Shrub Hill district of Worcester.

The neighbourhood garden mentioned in the previous blog. A very good example.

(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.