Oldbury Cameos

Another walk around Oldbury yesterday centred on the very impressive electricity station and surrounding buildings and their security measures.

Oldbury Canal

As a leg-stretcher after driving to Oldbury (Birmingham area), I took a walk along the Oldbury Canal to where it runs under the M5 and where a lot of reconstruction work is being done.

 

Woodgate Valley Country Park

Woodgate Valley Country Park on the outskirts of Birmingham comprises 450 acres of many different habitats. I had a short walk there on sunday morning and was interested to find that, like Toft, it has a Bourn brook running through it. Photos taken on Sony Nex set by mistake to jpeg but has produced very acceptable images.

Road that Never Sleeps

This is just a reminder to myself not to book anything in Smethwick during the week in future years. The journey there on Thursday afternoon took over 3 hours as opposed to under 2 hours on normal roads. So I thought I would beat the traffic on Friday by leaving at 5.30am but, as you see, there was already a traffic jam through the road works on the M6.

Focus on Feet

I visited Focus on Imaging show at the NEC yesterday. I managed to only purchase one battery (apart from a new toy for Phil). As usual it was a lovely sunny day outside but at least this gave some interesting light inside. I spent a lot of the time looking at feet it seems.

Birmingham

 I enjoyed a couple of hours in the rain in Birmingham today watching people and umbrellas. I also had time in the Bullring and around the Selfridge Building.