ALDRIDGE (AGAIN I'M AFRAID) IN THE AUTUMN

What a lovely walk and I don't feel a bit tired!

I love the way that the sun lights up the trees and the stones building with gold

I love these old road names.....is a Hob a form of gnome or pixie?

We have a 'breakback road' locally, I always wonder if its bcause its a bit of a switchback.....

And 'flesh hovel lane' which I try not to think about at all........

A beautiful and interesting walk
BA some wonderful trees and the church sounds fascinating. I can tell yoour Girls love the walk too;0)))

a lovely blog Ba, beautiful photo's, did you walk or go on your scooter!!

i love Autumn photos BA with all the attractive colours and especially on a sunny day when its all at its best, even your dogs are enjoying the crunching of Autumn leaves, use to and still enjoy doing that myself haha, great blog :o))

What lovely pictures, love the old church and those glowing trees.

I really enjoyed that little walk with you BA and you seem to live in a beautiful part of the country. I love the Autumn days when its so sunny and dry and it makes all the colours of the trees stand out. There's something about churches as well!

A lovely blog and photo's,Ba.love the area where you live..The trees are wonderful,I love this time of year,with all the vibrant colours ..A very pretty church,and thanks for the history of it..Rosie and Meg are lucky little dogs..so nice to know they have a good home:o)

Beautiful autumn colours and soft lighting from the hazy sunshine.
That was all so lovely.
x

Lovely blog - and you've created an 'epiphany' - I realise now what I'm missing in my -completely admittedly - spectacular mountain views ..... beautiful large trees!! The mountainsides are studded with evergreen Kermes Oaks with the occasional Ash and Poplar, but we have no well-shaped huge Oaks or Beeches! That was a lovely walk - thank you for sharing! :o)

Wow Pam, you have some great local names too. Maybe Flesh Hovel was the road to the abattoir? A name like that makes the flesh creep though yuk. I always thought Hob was another name for the devil, but I think it seems to have lots of meanings:-)
Hi Carole, yes they really love their walk and, even when I feel I could do without one, I find I feel better for it too:-)
Eh up Yorkie, I was wearing my roller skates;-)

Hi Sandra, as long as the sun shines I like the autumn .... it's those horrible dreek days I hate. Today looks as though it's going to be another lovely day:-)
Hello Sticki, see how your blog lovely inspired me?:-)

Hi Rose, There are some lovely parts of Aldridge and it was once a pretty village and although the locals still call it the village, it's really a small town now with lots of industry. Still a nice place to live though:-)

Bloomer, I really must visit the church, just hope it won't collapse on me in shock:-)
Thanks Wildrose, I'm getting to like autumn again now it's sunny:-)
Thank you Nariz, don't forget that after a very short splendour, these magnificent trees will be bare while yours will still be lovely. I know what you mean though, perhaps you could persuade your Council? to plant some big deciduous beauties:-)

It was so saddening to hear yesterday that so many of our native Ash trees are riddled with disease,apparently brought in from Europe..Norfolk is particularly bad,I believe....If they knew about it,why didn't they act sooner? The Woodland trust are devastated about it..We seem to be the same about everything here...always the proverbial stable door ...it will mean such a change throughout,to our precious Countryside..

I think I heard that the Government took a year to bring in an import ban. One scientist on the radio said that it has been discovered in quite mature ash trees here and that maybe our ash have some imbuilt immunity to it, but that's not necessarily so:-( There used to be magnificent elms on a main street in Aldridge and the main pub was The Elms although they had long disappeared. Their name has too as the pub is called the Crown now. Lots of old buildings were knocked down in the shopping centre and replaced with awful 60/70's flimsy architecture. Aldridge's old art deco cinema (opened by George Formby) became a bingo hall and is now being refurbished by Wetherspoons. They have to keep the art deco facade. Just to show off, Aldridge was mentioned in the Doomsday Book:-)