Taken from just by the footbridge.
Tortoiseshell butterflies feeding on aubretia flowers
Former brewery, Penn Common
Speedwell flowering
Bee feeding on aubretia flowers
East Park clock tower
Mallow flowers
Ladybird on an old oak leaf
Wasp in a camellia
Bushbury erratics
Wolverhampton was at the edge of the ice sheet in the most recent ice age. All across the city there are scatterings of these large boulders of rock originating as far north as the lake district or Scotland. One such set of boulders have been gathered together on the approach to Bushbury church. There are about twenty of them in the pile, set in cement.
Another is in the garden of Northycote Farm. Perhaps it was used as a mounting stone in former times.
Wolverhampton’s historic churches
The oldest surviving parts of St Mary’s, Bushbury (above) probably date from the 1300s, with St Peter’s in the city centre having bits that may be more than a century older.
But both have the remains of Saxon crosses which show the sites have a history of worship going back over a thousand years. The church at Penn also has the remains of a Saxon cross.