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  I often walk the cycle track below Rodborough Hill, The old Midland Railway spur from Dudbridge, And I often cycle the track on to Nailsworth, Musing on the springs and watercourses, the ancient holloways, The Roman villa, medieval ridge and fur...

  I’m a great fan of psychogeographical wandering: I love the whole chronotope thing of getting lost in a landscape and drifting through timescapes; I love the whole Hazlittian and Solnitian walking and thinking at 2.5 miles an hour trope. I love ...

I’ve been giving a question some thought: Can a walk (be it themed and purposeful or just ad hoc recreational) not only create a pop-up museum, in consequence, when back at home (individually and/or collectively), but also create a mobile pop-up museum...

Radical Stroud day out on Thursday July 2nd: a look at the Dean Forest Railway and a reflection on the 1926 General Strike in the Forest of Dean and on the GWR. Nine o’clock train to Gloucester and we’ll see what happens after that. Who kno...

Thursday June 25th, departing on the train that leaves around 10.30. We’ll probably do 5-6 miles by the end of the day (finishing at the Gluepot in the Railway Village). We’ll wander through the railway streets, skirt the STEAM Museum, foll...

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Introduction This guide for a walk through the General Strike in Swindon will be half-way between a conventional guide for a walk (turn left then right for the bus station sort of thing) and a guide for a psychogeographical ramble. ‘What do you mean by...

Introduction This guide for a walk through the General Strike in Stroud will be half-way between a conventional guide for a walk (turn left then right for the bus station sort of thing) and a guide for a psychogeographical ramble. ‘What do you mean by ...

  It felt like textbook psychogeography: Walking in a straight line along the old North Wilts Canal, In a ‘playful wandering exploration’, Reimagining the railway works and the seemingly endless sidings, Remembering where I used to train-spot and ...

This year, Wellington’s Jane’s Walk, organised by AWE (awesome walking envisaged) in association with the Wellington Branch of Living Streets Aotearoa, is taking place this Saturday 9 May at 2 pm. Jane Jacobs was a well-known New York urban...

The third and final Transport Research Webinar will take place Wednesday 8 July at 12 pm. These webinars are co-hosted by Living Streets Aotearoa, Transport Research Network (TRN), and Cycle Action Network (CAN). For this webinar, Living Streets Aotear...

I popped in the Centenary Lounge at Stroud Station Before catching the train to Gloucester for Lydney: I was on the scent of the industrial Dean In 1926 and the Great Western Railway, And, therefore, studied the GWR map From 1923 up there on the wall, ...

Plymouth Strikers v Police 1926 Imagine the scene if you are able: A procession of some 4,000 people, With union banners and a brass band (The day after the same number of people Battled with police when ‘volunteers’ Attempted to break the General Stri...

Stroud Park Walking Football Tournament and Stroud Food Bank May 4th The General Strike May 4th 1926   On May 4th 1926, twenty per cent of the workforce went on strike in a first wave of action called by the TUC in support of almost one million mi...

It’s easy to forget that a walk around our local supermarkets Can take you back in a glance to the early twentieth century: Names like Coronation Road, King’s Road, Queen’s Road, With the red brick villas lining the streets: Their soot mixed with morta...

Beatrice Webb’s May 1926 Diary (a small selection) The net impression left on my mind is that the General Strike will turn out not to be a revolution of any sort but a batch of compulsory Bank Holidays without any opportunity for recreation and a lot o...

A brand-new Edinburgh walking / wheeling club offering ambulatory meet-ups that focus on local history, art, and urban nature ~ with a twist ~

The first Transport Research Webinar was hosted a couple of weeks ago by Living Streets Aotearoa, Transport Research Network (TRN), and Cycle Action Network (CAN). The webinar speaker was Dr Giulio Mattioli from TU Dortmund University who spoke about “...