Around And About My Home Town

merlin

merlin

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I was born in Worcester England and live there now, but during my working life I have lived in several places around the UK. Over the past week I made several rather amateurish videos on my camera, here are a few while out on a walk into the town centre, via my Pharmacy to pick up some pills.
Excuse the shaky camera and mumbling commentary
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A couple of pics inside the pharmacy

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I enjoyed them too and the scenery is so beautiful in those first ones going down the hill.
 

Here I am just outside the city by the old Roman Walls unearthed a while ago, when building the city bypass, which oddly enough is called the City Walls Road
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The first defensive walls at Worcester were built after the Roman conquest of Britain in AD 43. Although a settlement existed on the site during the Iron Age, there is no evidence that walls were ever built around it. The Roman town was probably preceded by the construction a Roman fort, both located on the south side of the modern city and protected by the River Severn to the west.
There are relatively few historical details or archaeological evidence from this period, but archaeological investigations of the Roman town walls suggest that it had wooden ramparts and was protected by an 89-foot (27 m) wide ditch. As with other Roman towns, the walls would have enclosed a rectangular town, protecting a settlement with a grid-like network of streets.

The decline of the Roman Empire brought an end to Roman rule in Britain by the start of the 5th century. The town within the old Roman walls at Worcester continued to be occupied however, remaining a prominent military feature.


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Merlin, It as interesting to follow you on your walk and see the scenery and some buildings around where you live.
Thanks for your post.
 
Hi Merlin. I've never been to Worcester though I must have passed it going up/down the M5. I've never actually lived in a city although I've worked in ones for a number of years. Guess I'm a country boy.

It wouldn't take long to do a conducted tour of the village where I now live...

1. The view down Main street from outside my house. (the village only has 4 streets)


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2. If you go to the end of main street, this is the view.

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Quite a difference from Worcester!
 
Yes very nice Capt Lightning..... lovely views, whereabouts is that? ...........I have lived in the country in both a village and a small town, but as I have aged I appreciate the closeness of the amenities of city life, but living out on the edge I feel I am in the country. I spend half the year in St.Petersburg Russia which of course is a whole different world, Lisa my partner's apartment is on the third floor of a block, slap bang in the centre with trams passing by every 5 minutes, but I adjust very quickly....... I guess I am happy (or sometimes unhappy) wherever I am
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I went to Worcester 2 year ago for the Christmas Market some of the stall holders were in Victorian costume,I went in the Cathedral there too,
I like your Vids
Here is my Youtube of it

 
Merlin, I'm in the N.E. of Scotland although I spent the longest time in a large village outside Portsmouth. In my working life, I spent a couple of years in Germany (Mainz and Hamburg) and three years in Amsterdam. Also worked for Years in Edinburgh and several other European cities.

Going back many years, this village was pretty self contained with school, village shop, pub, garage etc... and even longer ago, two churches, a blacksmiths - even a small police office. All gone now. Money and infrastructure are being concentrated in the bigger towns - and totally ruining them. Dismal, 'Jerry-built' houses totally devoid of character and shoehorned it to any bit of ground that a profit can be made from.

Another picture.... Winter sunrise taken from the end of my garden (looking N.East)

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Lady said:
I went to Worcester 2 year ago for the Christmas Market some of the stall holders were in Victorian costume,I went in the Cathedral there too,
I like your Vids
Here is my Youtube of it

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Thanks for your video Lady...........yes I have been to the Victorian Christmas market once, but am always out of the country at that time of the year nowadays, it's very popular I understand and there are lots of coach parties from other towns coming to visit it.
 
Capt Lightning said:
Merlin, I'm in the N.E. of Scotland although I spent the longest time in a large village outside Portsmouth. In my working life, I spent a couple of years in Germany (Mainz and Hamburg) and three years in Amsterdam. Also worked for Years in Edinburgh and several other European cities.

Going back many years, this village was pretty self contained with school, village shop, pub, garage etc... and even longer ago, two churches, a blacksmiths - even a small police office. All gone now. Money and infrastructure are being concentrated in the bigger towns - and totally ruining them. Dismal, 'Jerry-built' houses totally devoid of character and shoehorned it to any bit of ground that a profit can be made from.

Another picture.... Winter sunrise taken from the end of my garden (looking N.East)

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Nice winter photo Capt, I love Scotland and went on holiday there most years during the 60s and 70s, touring all over the country, my brother-in-law lives in Kilmartin near Lochgilphead, I have been there a number of times and like the area.
You have spent time in some interesting cities by the sound of it, I love Amsterdam and Prague which I visited recently, though it is very touristy these days. I have never been to Germany for some reason, apart from connecting flights.
I know what you mean about Jerry-built boring houses, we have a lot in the outskirts Worcester.
 
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What beautiful old buildings. How fortunate you are in Britain to live surrounded by such antiquity. I also loved the birdsong. What is the topography where you live?
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I live on a hill at the edge of the Severn floodplain Shali, the county of Worcester has many hills dotted around the periphery of this flat expanse of land, the most significant is the range of hills called the Malverns, which at it's highest point is a few metres in height short of being classified as a mountain. The Victorians considered building a column to enable it to reach the required height
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merlin said:
I live on a hill at the edge of the Severn floodplain Shali, the county of Worcester has many hills dotted around the periphery of this flat expanse of land, the most significant is the range of hills called the Malverns, which at it's highest point is a few metres in height short of being classified as a mountain. The Victorians considered building a column to enable it to reach the required height
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Lulz. Thanks for giving me a clearer idea of your surroundings, Merlin.
 

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