End of the affair

Last year i began Project Debloggification to replace my blogs with my own website. This has been successfully carried out but there was one blog left: this one! This blog will today also come to an end, however it will be replaced by... another blog!

Why is this then? The only content i have not transferred (or am in the process of) to the web site are my book reviews, i think these will be better served in the blog format. I thought it might be better to create a new blog without all of the legacy posts on other topics getting in the way. So, Knell Lane has ended and Morton Bagot has been born!

This blog will no longer be updated but will remain open to view. Instead, new posts will appear on the new blog. The new blog has book reviews (fiction and non-fiction) as well as trip reports and the odd historical post. Thank you for visiting this blog and i hope you will join me on the new one!

Coventry Transport Museum

At the weekend i headed down to Coventry to revisit the wonderful transport museum. I am currently developing a new section of my website which is dedicated to road transport so i needed to update my photography on the many many exhibits there. From the oldest cars to the fastest ones! You can see my photos here.

Shropshire Places (10) : Yorton

Yorton is a small village in the north centre of the county between Shrewsbury and Wem.

Yorton is a very small settlement consisting of a small number of houses surrounded by farms. Yorton has had a long history though, a priest is mentioned being at Yorton in the Domesday Book. Despite it's small size, Yorton has a railway station though, the station also serves the larger village of Clive.

The parish church of St Mary in Broughton (the parish Yorton belongs to) was built in the late 1850s. replacing an earlier medieval church which had suffered from damp. The Norman font of the original church were reused in the new one. The church is built mostly from stone and has some Gothic features.

A little trip to Derby

As i was not working last Friday i headed up to Derby to see some trains. I did see the new Aurora on test, though unfortunately only at a distance. I did get to see a test train up close and also a Chiltern unit well off it's usual beaten path up north for maintenance! You can see my photos here.

Attenborough & Beeston

At the weekend i headed up to Attenborough in Nottinghamshire. There, i revisited the nature reserve (which are former gravel pits) and then walked along the Trent until i reached the Beeston Cut (or canal). This was a nice walk with some good scenery, and plenty of boats too!

You can see my photos of the Attenborough nature reserve here, and my photos of the Beeston Cut here.

Passing through Belper

Grand Central 180 on it's way up north.