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You could always roll back down...After two nights of drinking and eating out for my birthday I decided to get a little exercise with a friend and we’re currently here having a picnic
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It was a nice shaded walk up and the sun came out just as we reached the top.
Hope my hips hold out on the way back!!
Wow, the Wrekin's changed a bit since I last went.Well my hips managed to hold out albeit I am in a lot of pain now.
My phone reckons we walked exactly 6 miles and climbed 1140 feet, no wonder I’m a little tender.
It was worth it though.
Here’s a view from ground level.
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The glaciers took the edges off.Wow, the Wrekin's changed a bit since I last went.
Wow, the Wrekin's changed a bit since I last went.
QTH ? ... (where is this ?)
QTH ? ... (where is this ?)
Just off the roundabout on the left on Milford road? I think it was where the”layby” is now & it went when they put the roundabouts in. (IIRC)I'm sure a remember a 'proper' pill-box at the Wolseley Arms junction, but I couldn't see it the last time I looked.
The photo is stated as being taken in 2014, which seems rather later than the roundabouts in my loosely detailed history of the locality.Just off the roundabout on the left on Milford road? I think it was where the”layby” is now & it went when they put the roundabouts in. (IIRC)
Still there in 2012, but just a bit of a hump by 2017.As a kid I remember quite a lot of old air raid shelters on the left of Beaconside as you approach the Weston Road. (Near what we knew as The Four Trees, but they're long gone.) There used to be one on those allotments at the side of the Rec, but that disappeared quite recently. They all used to be pretty manky inside ... but given the choice of mankiness or a 100 Kg bomb I suspect it would be a one horse race.
I used to play in the one on Baswich lane railway bridge.There is still a brick pill-box at Baswich Lane railway bridge, but the entrance is bricked up now.
I'm sure a remember a 'proper' pill-box at the Wolseley Arms junction, but I couldn't see it the last time I looked.
Edit:- I does appear that it is still there, though rather overgrown, both itself and its surroundings. It was plainly visible from the road in the 1970s.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gary_crutchley/14796591939
I may have to investigate...
Ah, I do remember that one, too, now,I used to play in the one on Baswich lane railway bridge.
Used to be one on the field at the bottom of Radford bank ( field on left coming down the bank ). Funnily enough I mentioned that to hubby as we walked past the other night and pointed out where it used to be.