Dr Pierce.

http://www.vanderkrogt.net/statues/object.php?webpage=ST&record=gbwa143

Dr Pierce, from another angle. Took this on my way home yesterday afternoon.

 

Today's walk....bluebells.

Bluebells at the side of the road. Just got back from a sunny walk before the rain started.

 

Blists Hill Victorian Town.......4.

The young lady behind the counter in the grocers shop. 

 

The "National" cash register. Serial number 268881, web info tells me it was made in 1901. 

  

Ringing up the price.

 

Today's walk.....shadows.

Morning sun and shadows on the tree. Bright but cold start today.

HDR edited.

 

  

Blists Hill Victorian Town.......3.

Very expensive in those days.

  

Penny farthing at the rear of the shop.

  

Grocers shop with the chemists next door.

  

Part of the grocers window display.

 

Today's walk....buds and bluebells.

Buds.

  

Bluebells.

Bluebells and stinging nettle caught in the morning sun.

 

Blists Hill Victorian Town.......2.

Steam engines were used to pull wagons around the site.

 

Today's wallk......hail showers.

Really heavy hail showers on my walk today, as always, stopped by the time I got back into town. This is a view from Park street. HDR edited.

 

Blists Hill Victorian Town.

I have returned! Lot's of new pic's.

This way!

 

A short intro.

 

A steam engine above the entrance  hall.

 

Victorian dancers preparing for a show.

 

Today's walk......Goose.

I think this ios a Canada goose arriving for it's holiday with it's mate. Luckily I had the camera ready to grab a quick shot.

Cwm Penmachno to Rhiw-bach quarry.....41.

From today I will be away for a week and with no wifi. With luck I will return with some new pic's.

Final shots from this walk today.

More slate buildings ahead.

  

Through the gap.

  

Close up.

 

Cwm Penmachno to Rhiw-bach quarry.....40.

Curved track.

  

Looking down the valley.

  

Trees waiting for Spring.

  

River rushing down the valley.

 

Today's walk......Muscovy ducks.

For no particular reason I went on a completely different route for my walk today and there they were, my Muscovy ducks! Still don't know from whence they came but looks like they are going to be parents!

In the second shot there is definitely an egg to the left of the male. Aparently they don't sit on them continuosly but with last night's frost it could probably do with a bit of warmth.  I am wondering if in the first shot is where they have more eggs and the one in the second pic has rolled out or has been discarded! They are quite safe where they are so I won't be revealing the location for the moment.

Cwm Penmachno to Rhiw-bach quarry.....39.

Slate fence. The village ruins in the background.

  

Moss hills.

  

Track back through the forest.

  

Time to drop below the snowline and follow the track back down.

 

Latest charity shop purchase.

A couple of fine looking bears. Not for me of course.

 

Today's walk.........snow.

Some snow on the Clwydian range overnight.

 

Cwm Penmachno to Rhiw-bach quarry.....38.

Slate upright.

Looks like a storage pit!

  

Going to the right today.

  

Crumbling slate fence.

  

Today's walk......angel?

Angel's wing?

  

Another poser.

 

Cwm Penmachno to Rhiw-bach quarry.....37.

Track down to the village ruins.

  

Slate "glacier". There is a massive hole in the gorund somewhere close by and this is just the waste! 

  

Looking back along one of the waste levels.

 

Today's walk.....waiting.

Waiting for some warm sunshine. Dull and wet here again today!

   

Cwm Penmachno to Rhiw-bach quarry.....36.

Fence posts.

  

Workshop or dressing shed. All the slate walls are built without mortar!