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Paul Bridges

Birmingham New Street Walking Club
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Wombwell to Barnsley 8.5miles (18/02/26)
Attendees, P Bridges N Bridges D Peters A Walton D Chambers P Cotterill P Freeman K Freeman K Maguire N Graham A Howells T Mulrennan M Simmonds x 2 Non members. A super turnout for this walk with two non members joining us from Leeds. We set off in cold but dry conditions. Paths and lanes took us to the first section of old track bed . After a few miles on here we stopped in the grounds of a closed pub, The Last Inn and had lunch on their garden tables. After another mile we
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Feb 201 min read
Leamington Spa to Kenilworth Castle 7.25 mile (10/02/26)
Andrew Walton (Walk Leader), Dave Chambers, Dave Peters, Paul Freeman, Kim Freeman, Norah Graham, Andy Howell Retired Driver The Walk commenced at 1045 from Leamington Spa Station, following the Grand Union Canal for approximately 2 miles to Warwick, then after a bit of Roadwork, the route joined the Millennium Way north towards Kenilworth. After all the recent rain, the paths were inevitably very muddy, and in a couple of places it was necessary to improvise a route to avoi
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Feb 201 min read
Birmingham circular 7.5 miles (21/01/26)
Attendees: P Bridges, N Bridges, N Graham, A Walton, B Mulrennan, D Peters, P Cotterill, D Chambers and T Mulrennan A good turnout of 9 for a cold and slightly wet January walk. After Brenda arrived we set off along the Worcester and Birmingham canal up to University. We left the canal here cutting through the heart of QE Birmingham hospital grounds and then passing some fine houses of Edgbaston and Harborne. Then from here the old Harborne branch line took us back towards th
nicolaprestage
Feb 201 min read
East Midlands airport perimeter walk. 3.5 miles (08/01/26)
Attendees.... Phil Cotterill, Mary Simmonds, Jason Hickling, Gary Corbett, Andy Walton, Norah Graham, Dave Chambers and Andy Sear. We travelled by Skylink bus from Derby to East Midlands airport where we met up with Andy Sear who had travelled via Nottingham. We were racing to keep ahead of Storm Goretti which was heading our way later. We walked anti clockwise around the airport trail which was quite muddy and slippery in places. We had a close encounter with a Ryanair Boein
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Jan 201 min read
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