Black dog tales: From folklore to fiction, the landscapes of the Baskervilles
‘There is a rumour that…’ is a phrase that appears a lot in relation to the genesis of the spectral hound Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles and the Black dog within. A variety of locations lay some claim to the hound, not least those...
Black Dog tales: The Hound of St Austell
A guest post from Andrew Macdonald of Waveney Archaeology. Samuel Drew (1765-1833) was a self-taught man of letters; his special interest was metaphysics, which is perhaps why he is little known now. He was apprenticed to a shoemaker and gave the following account of...
Vanishing Point: Out of sight
Genealogy is an inconsistent science and growing a family tree quickly becomes an obsessive work of semi-fictional detective work. The urge to push further and further backward heading into our peasant laden past, hankering after the occasional sight of a king or...
Lost in a landscape: Ditchingham – an eye for an eye
Ditchingham sits just North of the Norfolk Suffolk Border. It is to all intents and purposes a suburb of Bungay albeit in a different county and on the other side of a main road. The town and its satellite village sit on the edge of the gentle yawning line that forms...IW on Facebook
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In a field in England, in the East Riding of Yorkshire to be more precise, amid the grass and nettles there stands a lone curious 24 foot (7.3 metre) red brick obelisk. Constructed more than 200 years...Ghosts of Doggerland - Beeston Hills, a kame field at Beeston Regis, Norfolk. There are records in drawings from the 18th century of more than just the one 'bump'. Kames are glacially deposited hills formed by deposits in hollows in glaciers dropping as they stop and start to retreat.
Some really quite incredible footage here of the Western Front between the wars. It was shot using Cine in colour, probably in the early to mid 1930s by Charles Bridgen, himself a veteran, who returned to the front to visit spots he would have known. This is intercut with a wedding sequence in Amien and a trip to Verdun. It’s rather haunting and Melancholy with a capital M. Well worth a watch. Thanks to Taff Gillingham for flagging this up, remarkable find that it is.
youtu.be/esA9SXyzAWkA short film made in 1928 by Charles W. Bridgen of his journey to revisit the battle sites in Northern France. Bridgen was L. Corporal in the 7th London Batt...