Walking – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Disappearing public footpaths at Nether Timble Farm, Washburn Valley, North Yorkshire

The OS 1:25,000, 1937-1961 shows a NW-SE public footpath connecting the end of Back North Lane, Timble with the N-S High Lane at Nether Timble, passing south of the farmhouse: The OS Six Inch, 1888-1913 shows the same path, but it stops at a garden boundary, short of the N-S High Lane: My guess is…

Organ-grinding tweets for February

More untruths & idle opinions.

January tweets

A walk from Petersfield over the South Downs to Bishop’s Waltham

From the banks of the Rother (almost) via Stroud, Ramsdean, the source of the Meon (just about), Frogmore, East Meon, Old Winchester Hill, Droxford and Upper Swanmore to the source of the Hamble (very nearly). Featuring an erudite parrot, Edward Thomas and John Owen Smith, William Cobbett and Gilbert White, Charles II and Winston Churchill, Eric Ravilious and a 1791 chic doggerel tombstone, and two extinct railways.

Organ-grinding tweets for December

Xmas &c.

If any would not work neither should he eat: Walthamstow workhouse.

For drone-hunters, a walk westward from Gatwick airport to Ockley station

Dedicated to those at Gatwick considering tracking down and killing the source of their stasis. Features two good drinking establishments, the villages of Charlwood and Capel and the River Mole.

July tweets from London’s Singing Organ-Grinder

In the footsteps of Spartacus

A self-guided walk from Ciampino Airport to Rome along the Appian Way.

Organ-grinding tweets for March 2018

The latest barrel organ news from Hackney, London.

Section of London-Harwich in 1675, crossing the River Lea at Bow.

Manga monster in a Tarragona wood

Pity you can’t see it from the motorway. Or perhaps not. (H/t Abandonalia)