Friday, 4 April 2025

Churches (258) : St Peter & St Paul, Wem

The oldest part of the parish church of St Peter & St Paul in Wem, Shropshire is the the west tower which date from the 14th century. Much of the rest of the church is a later rebuilding. The nave was built in the early 19th century, the chancel at the end of that century. The reason for the rebuilding was that much of the older church was lost in the great fire of Wem in 1677.

The church is built from ashlar and is in a mixture of Decorated and Gothic styles.



Thursday, 3 April 2025

Wednesday, 2 April 2025

Birmingham rails (again)

My last train adventure of the month of March was, again, a travel around some of Birmingham and the West Midlands' many railway stations. I went as far as Sandwell & Dudley in one direction and Small Heath in the other. You can see my photos here.




Tuesday, 1 April 2025

La machine à écrire

The latest typewriter has arrived, and it is this rather nice Olympus Splendid 66, it is indeed quite splendid. The typewriter was non-working when it arrived but i got it back into decent working order. The typewriter is my first French typewriter (or la machine à écrire - i had to look that up!) It has an AZERTY keyboard and accented character keys.