Wednesday 29 February 2012

Start of the Caldon canal

Here's the statue of Mr Brindley at the start of the Caldon canal.

Hanley church in the distance.

A bit of our industrial heritage.
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Sunday 26 February 2012

nb Stella - Caldon Canal

This was the first outing this year for our shared ownership narrowboat Stella.
This is the view from our current berth at Festival Park Marina, Stoke on Trent.
A Toby carvery! Very good it is too - and excellent value of course.
We stayed where we were for the first night and visited the carvery!


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Tuesday 21 February 2012

Phantom snorer...

I knew it wasn't me!

Saturday 18 February 2012

Lode Water Mill - Exterior

Water wheel in action.

Thursday 16 February 2012

Lode Water Mill - Interior

Here's the promised video of the working water mill.

Saturday 11 February 2012

Lode Water Mill

This is Lode Water Mill in the grounds of Anglesey Abbey.

They had quite a lot of eager visitors - some just eager to get out of the cold, I think?

The mill was in full working order grinding flour.

As a special treat next time- some video!
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Tuesday 7 February 2012

Back to Anglesey Abbey...

More of the colourful winter garden.

Aha! some snowdrops!

Very spectacular stand of trees.
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Sunday 5 February 2012

We interrupt this blog....

Here are some photos taken from the St.Mary's church tower this morning.



A bit more down to earth.

Man and dog - not great quality as taken with the camera phone and them 'zoomed in' quite a bit.
Very good though!
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Thursday 2 February 2012

Anglesey Abbey winter garden

Here's the spectacular winter garden at Anglesey Abbey as promised.
There were quite a lot of visitors around but I managed to get some good photos by being patient!






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