An ambitious pensioner is walking every street in Liverpool as part of a personal challenge to mark his 70th birthday.
Street rambler Nick Broadhead, from Aintree, started a series of challenges on significant birthdays when he turned 40, telling the ECHO: "Ever since, I've always made sure that I can run a 10k in fewer minutes than my age."
Nick cycled 2,000 miles of the country's coast in 24 days when he turned 50.
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The retired occupational therapist ran 60km for his 60th birthday while his wife cycled alongside.
He was 350 miles into a 1,000 mile walking challenge for his 65th birthday when he got "absolutely painful" shin splints that forced him to stop.
Now, Nick is more then 10% of the way through walking every street in Liverpool.
The playwright said: "This one I was 70, so people were saying, 'What are you going to do then?', particularly my wife."
Nick walks an average of 30 streets of day, always stopping to scribble down the name of the road, cycling to his starting point.
The biggest challenge is planning the routes so he doesn't walk the same streets twice.
It's the first time he's seen many of the road in the city he moved to in 1989 as a student at what became Liverpool Hope University.
Originally from near the Peak District, Nick once lived in France and on a croft in the Outer Hebrides, also spending time in the civil service and working as a postman.
He said: "It sounds like a lot, but if I got knocked over today, it'd be 'Pensioner hit by bus', that'd be it."
On his outdoor adventures, Nick stumbles across hidden treasures like the the odd thatched cottage, or a house painted bright turquoise.
He ponders the origin of names like Mossfield Road and Daniel Davies Drive, saying: "That's probably a person, but 'Mossfield' - there must have been a mossy field here at some point."
Nick gets funny looks when he wanders down cul de sacs and the odd cobbled street you'd miss on your walk to the shop or bus ride to work.
He meets interesting characters, like a woman picking grass for her rabbit near the boarded up houses of the overgrown, derelict Ducie Street in Toxteth.
Walking around, he takes in the contrasts from one street the next, like the potted plants, painted doors and bunting of nearby Beaconsfield Road.
Besides the proliferation of parked cars, dropped litter and dog poo he sees on his daily walks, one observation leaves him particularly saddened.
Nick said: "One of the things that strikes you is the proliferation of 'No Ball Games' signs everywhere.
"When I was a kid, we were out kicking the ball about.
"I can see it's really irritating if someone's constantly kicking a ball outside your house.
"But that just impinges all the time."
Despite the signs stuck on walls, Nick loves his adopted home, saying: "I just love Liverpool. I feel really at home here. The people are really friendly.
"Where we live, just up in Aintree, within two minutes you're on an old railway line. I've done that cycle all the way, off the railway line, onto the Leeds and Liverpool Canal."
Nick hopes others might join him in his quest to walk every street in the city.
He said: "I've always been keen to promote mental and physical fitness and this is a challenge that anyone could take up. This is something immediately accessible."
