Josh Allen
Josh Allen
@joshpallen.bsky.social
This month's Walk Midlands Newsletter went out to subscribers this morning

Ft. new walks in Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, and much, much more

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May 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Spent a few days in the Staffordshire Peak District (walking, naturally)

Final day and woke to this
January 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Great day on the Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trust/Walkspace "Peaks and Dales of Dudley" walk

Part of a current project linking up the hills that comprise the Midlands Watershed ridge in this part of the Black Country

Spectacular views
December 15, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Latest Walk Midlands Newsletter went to subscribers yesterday

Ft. new walks in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, and West Midlands, a feature on the region's universities, event listings, and more

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November 30, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Spotted in Leicester yesterday morning
November 17, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Good walk yesterday from Goodrich to Monmouth via Symonds Yat

Passed through three counties and two countries, crossing the River Wye twice
October 13, 2024 at 11:10 AM
Shropshire looking like Cumbria yesterday
September 22, 2024 at 8:09 AM
Just after 06:00 this morning
September 17, 2024 at 7:28 AM
Stills from today's early morning walk along the southern edge of Birmingham
August 31, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Delighted a piece on Walk Midlands and walking the Black Country features in the latest issue of the Blackcountryman magazine.

Thanks, Emma Purshouse, for the invite to contribute!
August 23, 2024 at 1:09 PM
I was in Walsall earlier and it was great heading up to Shefield to attend the Winterley Lane Allotments Open Day, and see an in situ, where it was made, exhibition of Ayesha Jones "No Diggity" project documenting life on the Allotments

Produced by Multistory and the Gaia Foundation
May 18, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Delighted to have contributed a forward to this stunning new Bluecoat Press edition of Janine Wiedel's "Vulcan's Forge"

The fullest version of this amazing documentation and celebration of the workers in the West Midlands tradition industries ever committed to bound print
April 24, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Looking back towards Birmingham from near Clent
April 21, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Swapped the Midlands for the South West today
April 4, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Latest Walk Midlands Newsletter (the 23rd...) came out a couple of days ago

Ft. 5 new walks in West Midlands county, reflections on my book project, event listings and a blog post reflecting on @WalkspaceWM's Watershed Walk

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March 2, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Snaps from yesterday's supurb, Walkspace West Midlands public walk in North Worcestershire from the source of the River Rea to the source of the River Stour, crossing the Severn/Trent Watershed

Produced by Andy Howlett and I for Terminalia Featival with lots of contribs from others
February 24, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Rainbow over Handsworth
February 16, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Crossing the Severn - Trent watershed on Friday last week, at Turner's Hill, the highest point (271 metres above sea level) in West Midlands county
February 11, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Very cold, but extremely great, morning visiting Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trust's Portway Hill Nature Reserve in Rowley Regis

Supurb views across West Midlands county

Wonderful geological, natural and human history past and present
January 19, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Place on the Grand Union Canal, on the edge of Kingswood in Warwickshire, where you pass from the River Trent to the River Severn catchment area
January 14, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Underrated Midland's views:

Tamworth watermeadows
January 5, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Mist was whisping around the Ironbridge Gorge on Friday morning
November 19, 2023 at 6:21 PM
Former Clipstone Colliery Headstocks

Built in the 1950s, listed in 2000 and used for mining coal until 2003

Photographed on yesterday's walk
September 23, 2023 at 10:23 AM