A-Z Blogging Challenge Reflection
It was in 2024 that I first discovered the A-Z Blogging Challenge, and decided to take part. The challenge involved writing a blog post for each letter of the alphabet, every day in April apart from Sundays. Each day's article was themed around a specific topic, chosen by me, started with a letter of the alphabet, the first article beginning with the letter A and the last with letter Z.
In 2024, I chose to write a series of posts on random topics associated with some way with Loughborough. This was reasonably successful, so I also took up the challenge in 2025, focusing on Art Deco as the theme, illustrated by examples from Loughborough.
In April 2026, it was a very last-minute decision to take part in the challenge, as I had a lot of other things happening, so I wasn’t convinced I’d be able to complete the challenge. This was the first hurdle; the second was finding a suitable theme to write about!
I gave it some thought, and settled on the theme of architects with some connection to Loughborough. The next challenge was to find someone whose name began with the letter of the alphabet for the day. In some cases, this was easy, and I found one architect for these letters. In other cases, this was more difficult as I found several possible entries for some letters, and so I had to make a choice about which person to write about. In yet other cases, I had to bend [my own] rules, and select someone based on their first name rather than their surname.
As you might imagine, there were some letters that proved extremely difficult to write about, especially those towards the end pf the alphabet. In these cases, I ended up writing about architectural topics, rather than architects per se. Y was very tricky and I found myself connecting yew trees with the cemetery, and with the architects of the cemetery chapels, Bellamy and Hardy. For letter Z, I indulged in sharing the story of a librarian connected with the free library on Green Close Lane, which preceded the Carnegie Library on Granby Street, which linked us back to the opening couple of posts – A for Allcock, and B for Barrowcliff.
My final challenge was not posting on a Sunday, as for the past 13 years, for the most part, this has been the day when I share an article about Loughborough.
Anyway, the A-Z Blogging Challenge was very challenging, but also very enjoyable. I hope you have enjoyed reading the articles as much as I enjoyed writing them!
Here’s a list
of all the articles I posted during the A-Z Blogging Challenge, 2026:
B - George Harry, and Arnold Montague Barrowcliff
G - The Goddards
L - S.W. Lax
Q - Charles Henry Bourne Quennell
T - Frank Tranmer
U - Unity House
V - Reginald Vaughan
Y - Yew Trees
Z - Zebedee Moon
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