Every year Snugburys Jersey Ice Cream Farm in Cheshire create huge straw sculptures. The first I featured on this website was way back in 2005 when they made a straw and steel version of the Millennium Wheel. This year it’s the Polar Bear, standing at 38 feet tall and weighing in at an impressive 9 tonnes. According to Snugburys this bear can be traced back to a brown Irish bear which lived over 20,000 years ago!

The National Water Ways Museum holds the inland waterways collection at three museum sites in England. Pictured above is the museum at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire. This photograph was take on a recent Sunday afternoon when I randomly thought I would explore what the ‘port’ has to offer photographically and came across some sort of event or open day. There were many interesting boats and various displays going on.

Here we see the canal barge Winding Down turning through the junction to head towards Nantwich. This is the junction between the Wardle Canal (straight on under the bridge), the Trent (to the right) and the Mersey Canal (to the left). This junction is in Middlewich, Cheshire. The Wardle Canal is the shortest canal in the UK at just 154 feet (47 metres). Regular readers may find this bridge familiar because I have photographed it before in the middle of winter when the canals were all frozen over.

This was my second photo shoot at the Silver Jubilee Bridge (more commonly known as the Runcorn Widnes Bridge). I originally explored Runcorn on a cloudy Sunday afternoon with the intention of finding the perfect place to capture the bridge from, with the intention of returning. So I recently did go back the the bank of the River Mersey, at the perfect time of day with my tripod and this was the resulting photograph.