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Capes on tour: Stone, Staffordshire. Part 5

by Pluvmantelo
August 28, 2025
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There’s something intriguing about a properly traditional Midlands town that then surprises with Brutalist-style concrete, and that was the case here. Clair The Cape Queen discovered this canal path under a bridge, complete with latter-day urban graffiti. We know that capes and concrete go well …

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Capes on tour: Magpie Mine. Part 2

by Pluvmantelo
August 25, 2025
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Clair The Cape Queen’s at home in the great outdoors, whatever the weather. Of course a cape makes that out door enjoyment even more so. And as we’ve already seen the weather wasn’t so good the day Clair made the long journey to this top-class …

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Capes on tour: Stone, Staffordshire. Part 4

by Pluvmantelo
August 21, 2025
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Back to Stone and Clair The Cape Queen came across a proper car accessory shop. Once a common sight in almost any high street many have suffered as motorists go online to buy their car’s needs. Of course, that means a motorist doesn’t get that …

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Capes on tour: Magpie Mine

by Pluvmantelo
August 18, 2025
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Head into the heart of Clair The Cape Queen’s domain and you’ll find Magpie Mine, Derbyshire’s last working lead mine. Situated high up in the Peak District it’s a fantastic survivor and one that’s a reminder of the nation’s past, closing in 1958. But while, …

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Capes on tour: Stone, Staffordshire. Part 3

by Pluvmantelo
August 14, 2025
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Railway station architecture: the earlier British station design was a thing of majesty, sometimes taking styling cues from churches. And in many ways railway stations of the Victorian and Edwardian eras really ways cathedral of steam, moving people and goods en masse before the internal …

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Capes on tour: Stone, Staffordshire

by Pluvmantelo
August 7, 2025
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Stone’s a proper, traditional English town and it’s the template for what a town should be like. It’s bustling, courtesy of its variety of shops (independent and chain) and there’s plenty of car parking. Its architecture adds to the traditional town feeling that there’s no …

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Caped gardening with Miss Pluv’

by Pluvmantelo
August 6, 2025
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Whatever the time of year Miss Pluv’ will always have gardening jobs to tackle and this time rain was threatened. No excuses, she went into the hallway and picked up her red Bormax cape – after all, why should the bad weather stop her getting …

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Capes on Tour: Longnor – part 3, the village bus stop

by Pluvmantelo
July 28, 2025
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It’s time to be controversial but Clair The Cape Queen and the editor have a strong feeling this is the best shoot to date. Sometimes it’s hard to know why, but with such an elegant rain cape to the fore, combined with the excellent post-war …

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Capes on Tour: Longnor – part 2

by Pluvmantelo
July 24, 2025
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You’ll find Longnor nestling in the Peak District and, if you’re lucky, you might spot the Cape Queen there too. Clair took to the highways of Staffordshire for some architectural exploration and took a cape with her, in this case her heavy 1970s one. And …

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Capes on Tour: Longnor

by Pluvmantelo
July 21, 2025
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A friend of Pluvmantelo told us ‘the shinier the cape, the closer to God’ and it’s certainly a sentiment we’d agree with. And The Cape Queen took that shiny and God theme further as she explored Longnor’s church. The day was bright, the cape was …

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