Michael Ashwood's photos

From a walk around Walsall Arboretum

From a walk around Walsall Arboretum

From.a Camera Club Halloween shoot

From a Camera Club Halloween shoot

Swan Pool and Cobbs Engine House in the background, Bumblehole Nature Reserve, Dudley, West Midlands. Cobb's Engine House (properly known as Windmill End Pumping Station) in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England, is a scheduled ancient monument and a Grade II listed building built around 1831.[1] Cobb's Engine House It housed a stationary steam pump used to pump water firstly from Windmill End Colliery and later other mines in the area. Utilizing a shaft 525 feet deep, 1,600,000 litres of water were pumped from the mines into the canal daily.[2] It ceased work in 1928 and the Newcomen type engine was moved to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan in 1930.[3] It stands near Windmill End Junction in the Warren's Hall local nature reserve, where the Dudley No. 2 Canal and the Boshboil Arm meets the southern end of the Netherton Tunnel Branch Canal. The area came into the possession of Sir Horace St.Paul from his father-in-law, John Ward, 2nd Viscount Dudley and Ward, on his marriage to John's daughter Anna Maria Ward.[4] It was Horace who instigated the construction of the engine house.

Stiperstones National Nature Reserve, Shropshire.

Stiperstones National Nature Reserve Shropshire, UK. This is a wild and atmospheric landscape, with a geology of national significance. The Ordovician ‘Stiperstones Quartzite’, which makes up the ridge was shattered during the last ice age to create the jagged, boulder-strewn landscape seen today.

At the NATS Radar station, Titterstone, Clee Hills, Shropshire UK.

Titterstone Clee Hills Shropshire UK. I stopped and asked these two young ladies if they would do a quick pose for me, I’m grateful they agreed

Dudley number one canal, Waterfront Business Park, Merry Hill, Dudley, UK.

Dudley number one canal at the Waterfront Business Park, Merry Hill, Dudley, UK.

Backlit shot of the underneath of a Sunflower

Taken at the Sunflower Fields, Wick, Worcestershire , UK.

Derelict old quarry building, Brown Clee Hill, Shropshire, UK.

Long Mynd, Church Stretton, Shropshire.

Cromer Woods, Quatt, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, UK.