Author: Richard Vobes

I am in Shropshire with Harriet and her dachshund, Lola. We are exploring Mitchell’s Fold Stone Circle, on the Shropshire hills. Mitchell’s Fold Stone Circle was constructed in the Bronze Age, over 3,000 years ago, using dolerite stones from nearby Stapeley Hill. PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORER My videos are funded by people like you. […]

I am back in Shropshire and this accompanied by Marc Petty and the lovely Harriet. This time we are taking a stroll around Colemere, taking in the Shropshire Union Canal in the process. One of Shropshire’s most beautiful meres, it is almost completely surrounded by mature woodland with two very attractive hay meadows. The site […]

Today I meet up with Shropshire nature enthusiast, Marc Petty, who has agreed very kindly to take me to Fenn’s Whixall and Bettisfiled Mosses National Nature Reserve. This a vast area, they say visible from space. I am keen to learn about peat bog. My limited knowledge is that of the old Pathe News Reel […]

I am continuing my walk in Loamhole Dingle with Lee Proudfoot and heading to the Quaker Graves. The Quaker burial ground in Coalbrookdale where many members of the Darby family are buried. They were iron masters who owned the ironworks which supplied materials for the Iron Bridge. PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORER My videos are […]

The Old Furnace at Coalbrookdale Ironworks remains as a small area of foundation walls. These were part of the first furnace of 1638. It was in this furnace, in 1709, that the first iron ever to be made with coke was smelted. I am once again joined by Lee Proudfoot to help me explore and […]