I visited Oadby in March for the first time in nearly six years. These are some photos of The Parade, Oadby's main shopping street. For some reason these photos are in reverse order... At the junction of Chestnut Avenue, looking at the Oadby Centre. There's apparently nothing much inside this 1970s development: walk through and you go straight into a car park. Looking east from the junction of Chestnut Avenue towards London Road. The spire is that of St. Peter's Church. Looking north along The Parade. The Parade and the opening of Chestnut Avenue on the right. Slightly further up The Parade. Looking north Looking south Looking north 80 The Parade. Oadby's not so different from Loughborough in that it has some rather nondescript 1970s buildings like this. Looking south along The Parade. The Parade, near its junction with Leicester Road and Harborough Road. Looking south from the top of The Parade. The open space between the top of The Parade and Harborough Road.

  Burleigh Road, seen from the Carillon Tower in May 2022. Radmoor Road's right at the end. Radmoor Road at the junctions of York Road and Hickling Court in May 2022. The humpbacked Nottingham Road bridge that spans the Grand Union Canal, seen from a South Notts 1 bus in June 2022. Ashby Road as seen from a 127 bus on an early June morning in 2022. Tennyson Road, also in June 2022. Stirling Avenue near the Windsor Road end this July. Mitchell Drive, also in July. Althorpe Drive, seen from Buckingham Drive. Frederick Street in May. Jubilee Way, seen in June.

 Hello there! This time, I want to tell you about another hobby of mine. You'd be forgiven for thinking I spent my entire spare time taking photographs, especially if you knew the actual quantity of photographs I take! But besides being an aspiring photographer, I am also somewhat of a numismatist. So we're looking at some coins from my collection today. Firstly, this 1940 half-penny. It was the first pre-decimal pound sterling coin to enter my collection, and it entered the collection through rather unusual circumstances. I dug it up. While sifting mid in the garden, I found this coin. The obverse bears an image of King George VI, while the reverse bears an image of the Golden Hinde, Sir Francis Drake's ship. For a long time it was also the oldest coin in the collection until the arrival of a 1937 three-pence in June this year. Next up is a 1992 Danish 2-krone coin. It is the only holey coin in the collection at present. It was purchased at a stall in the antique market in

Three weeks ago today, I went to Coalville for the first time in more than five years. I had no idea what would happen to me on the way back! I missed the 15:37 16 service to Loughborough, which was run by Arriva's Alexander-Dennis Enviro400MMC 4519 (YX16 OJU), so instead, an hour later, boarded the other bus on the 16, 4503 (YX16 OJC), also an E400MMC. 4503 arrives at the Memorial Square in Coalville just before its fateful journey. Note the route branding it carries, for the services 50 and 51 in Leicester. With Arriva Midlands, route branding means nothing. We set off towards Loughborough; the driver seemed to be driving alarmingly fast through Thringstone and the countryside; I couldn't remember the bus being quite so fast when going the other way! Then we entered Shepshed. At about five o'clock, the bus came to a halt at the bus stop opposite Domont Close. Now this type of bus has a stop-start system where the engine automatically turns off while the bus is stopping; h

 Here are some photos of Coventry railway station in May this year. Firstly, a look at some trains that run through this station. This is West Midlands Railway's Turbostar 172001 on the18:17 service from Leamington Spa to Nuneaton, which calls on platform 4.  Turbostar 172002 leaves platform 2 earlier in the day with a service going the other way, towards Leamington Spa. A pair of London Midland Class 350 Desiros , led by 350129, calls at platform 1 on its way to London.  Seen here arriving on platform 3 is an Avanti West Coast Pendolino  390138 heading north. Now a look around the station. These are platforms 3 (left) and 4 (right), seen looking eastbound. Platforms 3 and 4, looking west. A map of the railway station between platforms 2 and 3. Unlike Loughborough station, which has two pairs of alternating up and down lines, the lines through platforms 1 and 2 both go eastbound while 3 and 4 go westbound. The map is rather inaccurate because not only is there a separate footbrid