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Newstead! Fast-falling, once resplendent dome!
In the little town of Hucknall, nestling in the forest of East Nottinghamshire, is the Church of St. Mary Magdalene. A pleasant church, quite grand, indicating Hucknall’s prosperous past as a local trading centre. It nestles among the trees standing imperiously above the market place. There is much of interest in the church, but all…
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Eastwood
I lived in that house from the age of 8 to 16, andI know that view better than any in the world … that is the country of my heart.
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Once a Rebel, Always a Rebel
Nottingham has a reputation as a rebellious city. They supported the Parliamentarian cause in the Civil War and stood up for Chartism, women’s suffrage and battles for worker’s rights were fought on its streets. Its hero is a Saxon who stood up to his Norman overlords. Nottingham people continue to have a rebellious streak. The…
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The Tolkien Triangle
The name given to the roughly triangular, Eastern part of Yorkshire bounded by Flamborough Head to the North, the Yorkshire Wolds to the West and the Humber to the South. To the East, the land peters out and fades into the sea, the long spit of Spurn head reaching out into the Humber to separate…
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By the Tide of Humber
“Had we but world enough and time,This coyness, Lady, were no crime,We would sit down, and think, which wayTo walk, and pass our long love’s day.Thou by the Indian Ganges’ sideShould’st rubies find; I by the tideof Humber would complain.” Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress We crossed the Humber bridge mid-morning in October, the…
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Out to where the Essex Marsh…
It is always an absolute pleasure to drive through drive through Essex. Despite the popular media image of the county, it is heart-achingly beautiful, with it’s pretty little villages with chocolate box thatched cottages. Mrs. P and I, along with a couple of young friends of ours, went touring this much overlooked county last summer.…
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