Tag: b29

Mapping my local area reminded me: what’s going on with the old BBC Pebble Mill site?

  • June 5, 2009 at 1:18 am

  • For a little while I’ve been aware of a blog about my postcode area of B29, but it had never dawned on me to offer to contribute. So today I offered my services, and jumped in by plotting B29 onto a Google map. And in so doing I remembered the void that used to be [...]

I have a favourite tree. And here’s why…

  • May 25, 2009 at 9:40 am

  • I have a favourite tree. It’s not so much the tree itself though, as its location: slap bang in the middle of the pavement. It’s quite an old tree, and clearly the footpath has been built around it: I often wonder why it’s there. The trees are otherwise in a deliberate line, equally distanced, along [...]