China photos uploaded!
Tuesday, 22 December 2009My photos from Hangzhou and Shanghai are finally online! It’s taken me five months to upload just 72 photos, but as usual they are labelled with extensively researched captions…
Archive for the ‘Places’ category
Cornerstone opens!
Saturday, 30 August 2008Didcot’s new arts centre, Cornerstone, has finally opened. Over the weekend of 30/31 August, the centre opened its doors to allow the public to have a look around the new building.
The centre includes an auditorium, an art gallery, a dance studio, an arts studio and two other multi-purpose rooms. Many of the rooms have large [...]
A tale of two Birminghams
Saturday, 16 August 2008The City Council in Birmingham, England, recently sent out leaflets to all households congratulating them for meeting targets by recycling their rubbish. The leaflets cost £15,000 to produce. Under the headline “Thank You Birmingham!”, the leaflet showed a picture of the Birmingham skyline. Unfortunately for the council, the photo was of Birmingham in Alabama, and [...]
Didcot: where to enjoy a long, healthy life
Sunday, 9 September 2007It is an unglamorous town in the south of England known for its rail junction, power station and nuclear research laboratory but today, Didcot in Oxfordshire enjoys a new and enviable reputation – as the place whose residents enjoy the longest, healthiest lives in England and Wales.
Read the whole story in the Daily Telegraph.
One thing [...]
Edinburgh photos online!
Sunday, 26 August 2007It’s nearly two months since they were taken now, but finally I have uploaded some photos from Edinburgh. I have taken some time to write a little about each image, as I usually do, so that they become a guide to parts of the city rather than purely a set of photos. With only three [...]
No surprise Stonehenge disappoints
Friday, 17 August 2007It is no surprise at all that Stonehenge has come top of a list of the most disappointing UK tourist sights. The setting detracts hugely from the stones. The World Heritage site sits between two busy A-roads, with a tall wire fence to keep out non-paying visitors. Entrance is via a tunnel beneath one [...]
My new Flickr gallery
Sunday, 13 August 2006I have now signed up with Flickr, to provide another way of sharing my photos. Later I plan to integrate my Flickr photos into the existing gallery on my website. In the meantime, I have uploaded a few new photos to my Flickr account of my trip to Diamond, and of the newly restored roof [...]
Changing Leicester photos
Saturday, 8 July 2006I have added a few new photos of Leicester, showing some of the current regeneration work that’s going on in the city.
Featured projects include the Shires extension, the Performing Arts Centre and St George’s Tower. I plan to add to the gallery from time to time, to include more projects from different parts [...]
Revision guides? Safer to lock them up!
Sunday, 23 April 2006I came across a site, Learn History, which offers revision materials for GCSE History exams. As part of its “Crime, punishment and protest” section, it has a gallery showing aerial photos of prisons in England and Wales.
This is the photo which they claim is of Leicester prison:
As anyone from Leicester will realise, the photo in [...]
