Anth Rowley

Exploring locally on foot & bike. Cartophile, worryingly obsessed by toposcopes, trig stations & bench marks. Tendency to wander & wonder - supporting @THJTrust

[Anth Rowley @anth__rowley]

For #benchmarkmonday two for the price of one - Rivets within the towpath of @CanalRiverTrust Grand Union Canal between Cape Lock and Hatton Locks near Warwick. The Rivet at the Budbrooke Junction has lost its accompanying Pheon with the crumbling of the edge of the towpath

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Accepted the opportunity for a late-morning slow amble along both sides of Sabrina's banks at Coalport.

Familiar stomping ground, but no less enjoyable because of that and maybe more so as the area is quiet with the Museums still closed

[Anth Rowley @anth__rowley]

For #postboxsaturday the Victorian Pillar Box sited alongside St Peter's Chapel in Warwick. Cast in the shape of a Doric Column in 1856 by Smith & Hawkes of Birmingham

Grid Reference: SP 28400 64987
W3W ///lime.taken.tiger

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@MarcPetty9 Interesting! No mention of such my Pevsner 'The W Tower, begun in the 1530s (will of 1539), was completed only in 1769' and Historic England are unclear whether the top stage was added later or rebuilt. It's not unusual for towers (or spires) to be added or heightened over time.

[Anth Rowley @anth__rowley]

The petition is live to save our Trig Pillars and make them protected status.

Please consider signing and sharing the linked petition to reach the required 100K signatures!

PETITION > https://t.co/4Cy4MjkOcZ

#saveourtrigs

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A new blog - this one discussing why the 255-metre Snedshill Tunnel of the C18th & C19th Shropshire Canal wasn't located where one of the newishly built housing estates in Telford might suggest

https://t.co/tCqaB8OHN1

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A new blog about a section of the 18th Century tub-boat Shropshire Canal that can still be found - nearly 200-years after it closed - in front of the Cockshutt, Oakengates in Telford next to the Silkin Way.

https://t.co/60SUfNPy9x

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I wonder how many pieces of heritage are in toffee tins in sheds etc

#wenlockpriory #shropshire

https://t.co/04swUAJjfK

[Telford Live! @telfordlive]

Football focus on cancer at AFC Telford Utd https://t.co/96Gh6bt7JJ

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For #benchmarkmonday Flush Bracket S5429 that is set into Trig Pillar TP1879 on Callow Hill that overlooks Craven Arms in Shropshire. The Pillar's neighbour is Flounders Folly tower which was an OS Trigonometrical Station in the C19th

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Coalbrookdale - standing on the edge of the village green is the memorial to the workers of the former Coalbrookdale Company 1709 - 2017

The Memorial is easily missed by visitors to the area, but it is worth a stroll off the main tourist route to see - ///canyons.dolly.restrict

[Anth Rowley @anth__rowley]

One of two 19th-Century Board of Ordnance iron troughs that sit on the edges of the Museum of Iron's car-park in Coalbrookdale.

Now used as planters for crocus, they would have been used to hold & store more potent materiel in the past... ...swords to ploughshares

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@MarcPetty9

[TV Football 1968-92 @1968Tv]

BBC Nationwide
April 1975
Lifelong Shrewsbury Town fan, 63 year old Fred Davies, is employed by the Shropshire club as a ballboy.
Not a normal ballboy, but one that retrieves the balls from the River Severn in his little boat on match days.
#Salop

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@pete_savin Here be dragons...

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A new blog highlighting the wanderings of the Overley Hill Trig Pillar, how it's new position links in with Telford's industrial heritage and a little known connection to a South Wales village's sports teams

https://t.co/QzpyKaXSax

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@MarcPetty9 Marc, thanks for the kind words - really appreciated 👍

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A new blog about the history of the Wrekin's Rifle Range from it's establishment because of the threat of French invasion in 1859; it's connection to the Olympic Games; the drive to close it from the 1970s; and fun & frivolities in the 2000s.

https://t.co/oPGDvyNwBb

[Anth Rowley @anth__rowley]

A new (short) blog that highlights a 'forgotten' WWI memorial hidden in plain sight on Church Street, St Georges, Telford

https://t.co/mGprn4srN0