Worlds Apart: Edge Hill to Edge Hill

Today’s walk was another spur line added to my main walk from Southport to Brighton – so that I can connect Edge Hills: University, Liverpool district and battlefield. I walked from Liverpool Central (included on the main route) out to Edge Hill (the place), having previously walked to Edge Hill Uni – so it all [...]

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Psychogeography in ‘Redtown’

I recently discovered some video art pieces I made at art school back in the 80s, in a catalogue on the web. Lux were kind enough to digitise these for me and I’ve loaded a couple on to YouTube.
On re-viewing one of these, ‘Redtown’, I realised that its mythologising of place and self was [...]

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Beer-to-beer networking: Stone to Stafford

The first Velvet Underground song I ever heard was Beginning to See the Light, played on the John Peel show around 1977. In it, Lou Reed babbles exuberantly about ‘Wine in the morning/And some breakfast at night’. Having a cooked breakfast washed down with a pint of IPA in a Wetherspoons pub at 9.30 in [...]

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Edge Hill times three: 1

It occurred to me that, by adding ’spurs’ on to a couple of bits of the walk I’ve already done, and when the time comes navigating to a particular site in Warwickshire, I could join up Edge Hill (the University) with Edge Hill (the Liverpool district) and Edge Hill (the Civil War battleground.)
With this in [...]

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‘hill and vale/and tree and flower’: M6 209.4 to Emscote

It seemed simple enough: I would finish my walk to Stone, Jennie would pick me up, we would stay at a service station, then drive to our friend Sharon’s ‘Ordination as a Priest’ on the Sunday morning. In practice it wasn’t quite that simple. We stayed at Stafford South Services (which I had hoped to [...]

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