As part of a weekend celebration of the work of weird-fiction author Joel Lane, Andy Howlett leads a twilight walk through Digbeth. Join him on November 12th for a journey between worlds.
Author: Andy Howlett
For the second walk in our Wandering Rocks series we visited Birmingham city centre for more glacial boulders, geological curiosities and further examples of "beached heritage". The "wandering rocks" of the title refers to the erratic boulders which travelled to Birmingham from Wales on an ice sheet 450,000 years ago. The catalyst for this walk […]
Join us on 24 June for a playful drift around Stirchley inspired by The Loiterer's Resistance Movement
Walkspace film night #2
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Join us on 16th June for an evening of walking related short films
It's lining up to be a good summer for walking in Birmingham with the return of Still Walking Festival and the accompanying guidebook "111 Places in Birmingham That You Shouldn't Miss" by Ben Waddington. Still Walking has been a big influence on many of us at Walkspace with its unusual and highly creative approach to […]
For the final Walkspace Erratic of 2022 we visited Bordesley Henge in Birmingham to mark the Winter Solstice. Bordesley Henge is a municipal stone circle situated in Kingston Hill Park and is believed to date back to the 1990s. Six standing stones form a ring on top of a mound, up which a spiral footpath […]
This piece by Andy Howlett was originally written in April 2021 and appeared in Back to the Future, "a forward looking journal about past-futures, modernism, architecture, and town-planning in Birmingham." Upon learning of the death of the pop-artist sculptor Nicholas Monro it seemed fitting to repost it here in tribute. Every word of it is […]
On 13 August our Roaming Flags of Bumble Hole project concludes with a colourful musical parade. Come and fly a flag for nature!
Walkspace is happy to announce its next funded project – a celebration of the natural abundance and rich history of Bumble Hole nature reserve
For May's Erratic we teamed up with Flatpack Festival for a pilgrimage to Spaghetti Junction to celebrate its 50th birthday. We had a great turn out of 25+ people and the weather was kind, which all made for a delightful and profound day. The walk began in Victoria Square and from there we made our […]