1
The Parish Hall in Ford village, Shropshire
The Parish hall or village hall looks good. Just what you think of when you hear the words 'parish hall'.
Image: © Jeremy Bolwell
Taken: 30 Jan 2021
0.14 miles
2
Goats at dusk in a rear garden at Ford
Great to meet these two characters here. They were wary, but also curious as to whether I had any interesting titbits about me. So we had a chat and I moved on, as I couldn't feed them and therefore didn't interest them much.
Image: © Jeremy Bolwell
Taken: 30 Jan 2021
0.14 miles
3
Dinky's Diner
A large layby off the A458.
Image: © DS Pugh
Taken: 4 Aug 2023
0.15 miles
4
Layby along Welshpool Road
A large layby off the A458.
Image: © DS Pugh
Taken: 4 Aug 2023
0.17 miles
5
Last Spring's bird's nest in a bough beside the footpath at Ford village, Shropshire
When I make plans and my doubts become 'traitors, and make me lose the good I oft might win, by fearing to attempt' I always try to remember what ordinary birds do every season; they build a static nest of twigs, bound to a tree with no adhesives, out of doors and visible to every predator and competitor, and in that fragile bower raise a brood and often see them successfully fledge and start that same cycle themselves, ad infinitum.
I want to be more like a bird; trusting myself, my skills and trusting pure optimism too, the laws of chance, the laws of nature and that you make your own luck.
We don't need much certainty to try and then succeed. Birds prove this every year, every day.
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, the Welsh broadcaster, had a life view of 'pointless optimism' and I have yet to see anyone improve on this philosophy.
He was a birder too.
Image: © Jeremy Bolwell
Taken: 30 Jan 2021
0.17 miles
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Layby at Ford
A popular, almost permanent roadside cafe in the A458 lay by at Ford. This layby is an older alignment of the Welshpool road from before the road was straightened with the removal of the old Shropshire & Montgomery Railway bridge nearby.
Image: © David Stowell
Taken: 28 Apr 2006
0.19 miles
7
Lane in Ford
Image: © Row17
Taken: 5 May 2008
0.20 miles
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Sunset through the trees in Ford lay-by
Image: © Marion Haworth
Taken: 13 Dec 2009
0.21 miles
9
Range of old farmyard buildings at Lower Farm, Ford
My god these buildings, and indeed the whole farm, have seen better days. Ripe for residential conversion I would think.
Image: © Jeremy Bolwell
Taken: 4 Jan 2012
0.21 miles
10
The gate and pond at Ford Hall
A large pond lies in the landscaped grounds here. Very nice.
Image: © Jeremy Bolwell
Taken: 4 Jan 2012
0.24 miles