Still Walking is taking advantage of the good weather and has created a summer microfestival. The programme brings you a new selection of interesting walks we’ve helped develop over the last few months. The events have nearly nothing in common – that’s the way we like it! The programme reflects the range of interests people across the city have – we think it’s all worth looking at. We hope there’s something to interest you too…and maybe bring a friend who hasn’t already tried a Still Walking event. We hope to be back later in the year with a greater selection of guided tours – we’re always on the lookout for walks that are already happening that we can run again, and we love to hear from people who have an idea for a walk that they’d like to develop.
Sabbath Day Out
Today’s guest blog is by Capsule’s Sarah Lafford: Pose outside the Chelsea Hotel a la Patti Smith, visit the home of underground punk, CBGBs, or go to the ‘most famous club in the world’, the Cavern Club. Paying homage to the music we love should surely be an opportunity to display a certain level of [...]
Read more...Walk the High Street, Cradley Heath
The Still Walking thing is to reconsider various places and themes as tourist destinations and to create guided tours to explore them. The idea came after being bored once too often by official guided walks – listing every lord mayor the town has had, how many windows there are in the Town Hall – and [...]
Read more...Architectura Victoriana: The JH Chamberlain tours
Looking at Victorian Architecture can be like seeing evidence from an ancient civilisation, one far in advance of our own. Their buildings were designed to allow adaption and extension without spoiling an intrinsic harmony, but so often when we do, it is with an insensitive eye and clumsy hand. The new bricks don’t quite match [...]
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