Month: April 2022

When a walk begins near a plaque that announces that “As recorded in the 13th century annals attributed to William Worcester, King Richard II and his brothers and sisters, William of York, Anne Duchess of Exeter and Margaret Duchess of Burgundy were born at Fotheringhay,” then we know we...

Part One: The Preliminaries Part Two: The half-way pause, and a twisted house One of the key factors relating to Peterborough Rambers’ recording of our walks in photographs is that the group has neither a director of publications nor a director of photography, and thus members with cameras are...

Pictures from the first part of the Houghton Walk on 14 April 2022 can be found here. But it would be wrong to think that a walk is nothing but walking.  Walking does take up over 90 per cent of the afternoon on Thursdays, but the 10-minute rest for...

Walking with Peterborough Ramblers is more than just walking of course, for there is the gathering together beforehand, the greeting of long lost friends (well at least those not seen since one week before) and naturally the checking of the register – itself a most serious matter whose origins...

pictures by Jon Bridgland, commentary by Tony Attwood This was the wettest walk I’ve been on with Peterborough Ramblers but despite this we had a fair few hearty souls battling the elements, and as these pictures show, sometimes there was blue sky. The reality was that other times there...

The first set of pictures from the Greatford Walk appears here      ...

Pictures from Jon Brigland                           There are more pictures on the Greatford Walk Part 2...