Two modes of transport

After Wednesday blog we return to the same subject but actually going southwards to Kidsgrove and The Potteries in an era I used to explore when I was younger and first got into photography.

Things that have been added is the surfacing on the tow path which used to all grass (and mud in winter) and tidying up the fences that divide fields used by the farmhouse across the road.

This bit of the district is almost but not quite rural while the road on the far left just visible by the street light is more or less typical ribbon development, that road being built in the middle of the last century to overcome a bottleneck, this bit forks off into an area of farms and woodland mingled with parts connected to salt mining.

That's so typical of the North Staffs conurbation - you have a almost rural area with an industrial  past in the middle of it - but the upside as a recent edition of BBC Tv's Country File showed is just how green this area is because of such 'lungs'.

A recent survey showed we had the fifth largest amount of urban green spaces in England and that's before you take in the woods on the fringes.