Castle Bromwich Rambling Club

Your Local Friendly Walking Group

Quarryman trail

Setting off on the 'Quarryman's Walk' .....

 

Quarry1

..... and here's the quarry

 

descending

Descending towards .........

 

Forest track

........ Hartshill Hayes Country Park ......

 

bluebells

...... with its lovely carpet of bluebells

 

castle wall

Hartshill Castle wall

 

Hartshill Castle

Peering into the castle grounds

 

memorial

Memorial to all who died on Warwickshire roads

 

cows

How now brown cow?

 

Canal

Coventry canal

 

sunken boat

One (not so) careful owner

 

leader

Today's Leader

 

 

sheltering sheep

Sheltering from the rain shower

 

Caldecote Hall

Caldecote Hall - now luxury flats

 

River Anker

River Anker

 

Bridge over R Anker

Bridge over the River Anker

 

Dog vomit slime mould1

The 'Dog vomit slime mould', Fuligo septica, NOT a fungus but a Protist - like a massive single cell

with thousands of nuclei it slowly moves to engulf organic material  that it feeds on