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Alison Stenning
@alisonstenning.bsky.social
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Geographer - Professor - Mum - Playing - #playstreets - Cycling - #kidicalmass - #WarOnCars - Walking - Noticing - Green - North Tyneside - North Shields - UK
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · Nov 9
Hello 👋 I’m here for the chat about (geographies of) (urban) play and everyday mobility, esp children’s, along with neighbourhoods and community; bits on austerity, class & social change; climate & environment; but also the north-east of England (esp Tyneside); and some higher education too.
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 9m
This looks like a great lecture series -
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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 31m
EVENT: Announcing our 2025 Autumn Lecture Series: Buildings for Sport and Leisure. From lidos to skateparks, lesiure centres to stadia, the Olympics and more!

Season tickets and individual lecture tickets are available to book now: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

See full calendar below 👇🏼
Image © Howard Kingsnorth - Crystal Palace National Sports Centre (1964)
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 2h
Ha! Another new metro! With my bike today, and I used the strap to secure it. Nice!
Another new Tyne and Wear metro - with bike and pram signs on the windows. A seat belt style strap securing my bike, with a bike sign on the floor.
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Hayden Lorimer @slipshodspeller.bsky.social · 1d
Winter Well is on air BBC Radio 4 this week.

An audio guide to thriving in winter, with advice from medics, artists, poets and future-gazers on simple but effective ways to bring light into your life during the darkest part of the year.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 22h
The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 1d
Autumn in the front garden - can’t quite capture the colours of the cherry tree.
A witch hazel Autumnal leaves on a cherry tree
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 1d
You’d see a lot of off-the-beaten track places doing the whole network, but a lot of it wouldn’t be fun! The mileposts and art would be good - are they all mapped?
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 1d
Someone else suggested cycling the whole NCN!
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 1d
Actually also Ferryhill, Co Durham.
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 1d
Useable map here: www.arcgis.com/apps/mapview...
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 1d
Yes, there are some in Newcastle, Gateshead, S Tyneside and Sunderland - which would have been historically Durham and Northumberland, but big gaps. None in present day North Tyneside. Just one in Northumberland (Longframlington). Two in Co Durham, in Hetton le Hole and in Framwellgate Moor.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d
🎉 We've done it. We've passed 100,000 Green Party members!

📈 But we're not stopping there.

💚 Let's make hope normal again! Join the Green Party today!
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 1d
Yes, it was a foundation set up in his memory, eventually funded by grant-in-aid, to support the establishment of playing fields, predominantly in urban areas, to be protected in perpetuity. Most of the fields established are still protected by what is now Fields in Trust.
A map of King George V Playing Fields
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 1d
Either all the King George V Playing Fields, or I’d track down as many of the 750+ designated mid C20th play streets/street playgrounds as I could. Or the playgrounds funded by the 2008 national play strategy.
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 1d
“the plain fact that youth services ought to be thought of as one of the public realm’s most basic elements”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris
These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...
www.theguardian.com
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d
It’s pronounced cyclist.
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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 3d
Maybe road building will work this time.
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Kim McGuinness @kimmcguinness.bsky.social · 4d
Moor Farm roundabout on the A19 needs an upgrade!

Fixing it will:

🏘️ Unlock thousands of new homes
🚑 Make it quicker and easier to access the hospital at Cramlington
🚘 Ease traffic for thousands each day

@emmafoodymp.bsky.social and I are pushing this hard and will continue to until it’s sorted!
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 2d
Have just been (virtually) exploring the beaches and archipelago. Good to hear it’s walking/cycling friendly too.
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 2d
Tove Jansson is very much on the itinerary! Thanks for the other tips.
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 2d
Yes, thinking maybe a week or a bit less, with a few days by a lake too.
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 2d
Looking at the ferry from Stockholm!
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 2d
Helsinki for a summer holiday? Yes? No? Ideas? Thank you!
A map of Helsinki
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 2d
It’s fabulous. Perfect for the spot.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 3d
Meanwhile, I've got almost a year without getting my shoelace wrapped around the pedal arm...
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 3d
A new mini-mural from Anthony Downie on an unloved corner of Brewhouse Bank, coming up from North Shields’ Fish Quay.
A mural by Anthony Downie with shadows and shade of a warehouse door, fencing, roofs and bollards (one bent), in blues and oranges. Original seen here online: https://www.adillustration.co.uk/?pgid=jl7xbv773-197546f8-9432-4528-9613-f487f3a1c7fd Anthony Downie’s mural in context, with rubble, rubbish and weeds, a Larry’s Fishcakes sign, barbed wire, a telegraph pole, a brick wall, and half a sign saying Brewhouse Bank.
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 3d
Any “approved fall-type beverage”!
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