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Highlights
Dylan & Blake on a Friendship, Cemented (A.J. Snyder Cement – Rosendale, NY)
Sounding Jarrow Slake
Flora and the Baron
Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, the first director of Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, narrates an audio tour reflecting on his scientific legacy and the environmental consequences of his actions, such as introducing blackberries. The tour integrates Mueller’s writings and imagined responses, encouraging listeners to reconsider colonial scientific impacts and future ecological stewardship.
On the road to nowhere
“As I plod north in the wind, I seem to be making no headway. It’s as if I’m walking on a treadmill: my body is moving but I’m going nowhere….. One minute I seem to be immobile; the next I realise that in immobility was an illusion, that I was getting somewhere, slowly, all the
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• Walking pieces
A Guided Walk of the Industrial History of the Lower Lea Valley and Olympic Park – (3 of 4)
This post describes a Virtual Reality exploration of the industrial history of the Lower Lea Valley and Olympic Park, focusing on environmental and social impacts. Walk 3, led by Dr Jim Clifford, Ralph Ward, and Atif Ghani, follows the Bow Back Rivers from Bow flyover to City Mill Lock, highlighting the rivers' role in industrial access and Britain’s imperial growth through quinine manufacture.
A Guided Walk of the Industrial History of the Lower Lea Valley and Olympic Park – (4 of 4)
This Virtual Reality exploration examines the industrial history of the Lower Lea Valley and Olympic Park, focusing on environmental impacts and living conditions shaped by industrial development. Walk 4, led by Dr Jim Clifford, Ralph Ward, and Atif Ghani, traces the route from Stratford High Street to Three Mills via the Channelsea River, highlighting its transformation from rural landscape to an industrial and environmental site affected by pollution and sewage until 2017.
Articles elsewhere
The Hammerman Poet
Life in a Railway Factory: Alfred Williams, the Hammerman Poet Born close to Brunel’s broad gauge at South Marston, While Richard Jefferies measured the red brick growth Of New Swindon’s terraced street advance, You studied express trains from farm and...
Still Walking, book launch, and the search for a lost well
It's lining up to be a good summer for walking in Birmingham with the return of Still Walking Festival and the accompanying guidebook "111 Places in Birmingham That You Shouldn't Miss" by Ben Waddington. Still Walking has been a big influence on many of us at Walkspace with its unusual and highly creative approach to […]
Of planes, trains, and metromobiles
I arrived in Nice, close to midnight, only to have to fly out again by 10am. Not that this was planned, though. My host in Nice, a lovely lady with a curious old cat that went by Pistache, apologized multiple times for my misfortune in travel. She had prepared a list of things to sea, …
• in Melbourne: Mornington
Whilst staying in Mornington Melbourne we went for several early morning walks with Maleko to, and around, a local wetland at Narambi Station Reserve and the Mornington railway line. The post in Melbourne: Mornington appeared first on Poodle Walks.
Events
Black Country Type
We open the walk · listen · cafe doors in January, to explore a cultural history of the Black Country through the lens of walking artist and photographer Tom Hicks. Black Country Type is his ongoing photographic project. A series of images distributed via Instagram, in which he applies his unique aesthetic to the Black
• Sweet Industry in the Docklands
This is one of a series of four walking workshops. Please book for free through Eventbrite via the attached link. Join artist and newsprint enthusiast Eloise Hawser for a series of four different free workshops with guided walks in London’s Docklands, looking at the area’s rich variety of stories, people and places through the lens
JMW Turner in North Shields/South Shields
Referencing JMW Turner’s Keelman Heaving Coals by Moonlight we will explore the contrast between the rural & industrial. Composer Peter Coyte, choreographer Dora Frankel, musician Martin Elliott & one dancer TBC will be making a gentle ‘dérive’ walk recording sound & responding to the landscape with movement & gestures with the purpose of gathering material
