Christine's World

Places, Thoughts, Travels & Ideas

How Much Is Enough

Hello there! and welcome to my own personal website - like much of life, it has not much by way of rhyme or reason, it's just a random collection of my thoughts and ramblings. You'll also find some accounts of special places I've been to, and some musings on other places I would like to visit someday. I hope you enjoy reading some of the stuff on here, why not put the kettle on and stay awhile....

Crossed Paths, An Original Story

Family History

A Death in the Family

Special Places

70s Miscellany

May 10

Joyce's Best Dress

Joyce Leveson died in the 1570s, and has lain in silence for centuries in St. Peter’s Church in Wolverhampton, along with her husband,...

May 10

Child 167

There is currently much discussion, and rightly so, about whether it is appropriate or otherwise to have human remains (even if they are...

May 8

Lady in the Park

From a distance, you might be forgiven for thinking that the lonely figure seated on a distant park bench is a living person, lost in...

Mar 11

45 John Street, Longbridge Hayes - No More

You would search in vain nowadays for this address, long since demolished. This tiny terraced house stood on a steeply sloping piece of...

Oct 19, 2022

Thistley Hough Revisited. School Days - Part 1

I don’t know whether I was fortunate or otherwise to have attended this school, already poised on the brink of being downgraded from its...

Jul 23, 2022

In Memoriam, Jennie (1974 - 2022)

"And I don't want the world to see me 'Cause I don't think they'd understand. When everything's meant to be broken I just want you to...

Apr 10, 2022

From Mills to Apartments in Manchester

The city of Manchester is currently undergoing immense changes, with the appearance of multiple brand new high rise buildings – not for...

Apr 3, 2022

The Angels of Newcastle-under-Lyme

It is a chilly spring day at the beginning of April, the fitful sunshine interrupted from time to time by brief squalls of hail which,...

Jul 4, 2021

Albrighton Station

It’s strange how a place can feel so quiet and set apart from the real world, even when there’s a busy road just feet away and the noise...

Jul 3, 2021

The Chapel in the Corn

The effigy of Alice de Vere, Countess of Oxford, lies in eternal chilly splendour in a building known as the Chapel in the Corn, which is...

May 16, 2021

Minerva's Shrine, Chester

It’s a wet Saturday in Chester, and the rain hangs low over the city as it persistently drenches the crowds of people who still throng...

Feb 14, 2021

Walking Past

During this current lockdown, I have felt hard pressed to try and come up with a daily walk that is not too taxing as to be off-putting,...