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Saturday Snapshots of a Garden Where Monks Prayed
The Friary Gardens in Lichfield mark the spot where monksonce prayed. Stepping stones in a small park in Lichfield will lead you on a 800-year journey back in time. At first glance the paving slabs laid out in the grass alongside a busy road look as if they’ve been set there in random fashion –…
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
There I was, sitting on the floor in the backroom of the Oxfam shop, sorting and pricing books, when I came across a well-thumbed copy of Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston. I’d never come across the author before, but it was a Virago Modern Classic, with an eye-catching painting on the…
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Underneath the Arches….
This week’s Saturday Snapshot hasn’t moved far from Tamworth Station, because on this day (August 4) in 1839, railway pioneer George Stephenson drove one of his engines across the newly constructed 19 Arches spanning the Anker Valley at Tamworth. Behind the engine (which was named after the town) were six carriages packed local VIPs and…
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August Reading
It hardly seems possible that August is here, the shops are already full of ‘Back to School’ displays, and summer will soon be over – though this year it never really seems to have started. Perhaps we’ll get an Indian Summer during the autumn, with plenty of sunshine. Anyway, I always find it comforting to…
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These Little Piggies… Are Made of Flowers!
These floral pigs stand amid the flowers on a roundabout outside the entrance to Tamworth Railway Station, and they are the nicest things about the station, which is truly horrible – it’s a concrete monstrosity, and the second-tier of the car park is even worse, because it looks as if it’s been made from a…
The Book Trunk 