On how unchanged our landscapes can sometimes stay
Published at 8:42 pm on January 10th, 2023
Filed under: In With The Old.
Some South Wales railway history that is still around, but not for long
Published at 9:53 pm on May 12th, 2022
Filed under: In With The Old, Geekery, Trains.
Keyword noise: Cymru, Wales, Casnewydd, Newport, hanes, history, hanes lleol, local history, rheilffordd, railway, railway history, trains, Gaer, Cyffordd Parc, Park Junction, Tredegar Park, Great Western Railway, signalbox, signalling, Monmouthshire Canal, modernisation, Network Rail, maps, RCH, Railway Clearing House.
Keyword noise: archaeology, British archaeology, history, Raedwald, Sutton Hoo, Sarah from Ipswich, Ancient Britain, Anglo-Saxons, death, burial, ship burial, cemetery, graveyard, photography, River Deben, East Anglia, Woodbridge, Suffolk.
Keyword noise: Cymru, Wales, Casnewydd, Newport, hanes, history, hanes lleol, local history, rheilffordd, railway, railway history, trains, Pye Corner, Great Western Railway, Monmouthshire Canal, maps, RCH, Railway Clearing House.
Keyword noise: Cymru, Wales, Casnewydd, Newport, hanes, history, hanes lleol, local history, rheilffordd, railway, railway history, trains, Pye Corner, Great Western Railway, Monmouthshire Canal, maps, tithe maps.
Keyword noise: Cymru, Wales, Amgueddfa Cymru, National Museum of Wales, Sain Ffagan, St Fagans, museums, history, bees, bumblebees, sheep.
Or, photo post of the week by another name
Published at 10:24 pm on February 17th, 2021
Filed under: Photobloggery, The Family.
Keyword noise: Cymru, Wales, Casnewydd, Newport, Tŷ Du, Rogerstone, camlas, canal, Monmouthshire Canal, rheilffordd, railway, railway history, Great Western Railway, hanes, hanes lleol, history, local history, walking, cerddediad.
Keyword noise: Bristol, winter, seasons, snow, death, cemetery, Greenbank, Eastville, Easton, Greenbank Cemetery, history, local history, railway, disused, Rosemary Green.
Keyword noise: Bristol, Easton, Stapleton, heritage, history, local history, Ridgeway Park, cemetery, death, grave, photography.
Keyword noise: Bristol, Easton, Stapleton, heritage, history, local history, Ridgeway Park, cemetery, death, grave, photography.
Or, what to do with your faithful companions if you're rich
Published at 9:57 pm on December 27th, 2020
Filed under: Dear Diary, In With The Old.
Keyword noise: Books I Haven't Read, reading, religion, paganism, Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Goodbye To All That, poetry, history, mythology, fake history, fake mythology, Ancient Britain, anthropology, archaeology, Blodeuwedd, Lleu Llaw Gyffes, Gwydion, Mabinogi, Mabinogion, Cad Goddeu, Cymru, Wales.
A bit more local history
Published at 4:28 pm on November 28th, 2020
Filed under: In With The Old.
Keyword noise: history, local history, Bristol, Easton, Greenbank, Greenbank Cemetery, Coombe Brook, cemetery, heritage, culvert, grave.
Keyword noise: history, local history, Bristol, Easton, Greenbank, Greenbank Cemetery, cemetery, heritage, death, weekend, maps, archaeology.
Keyword noise: Farleigh Hungerford, death, burial, coffins, photography, castles, E Nesbit, English Heritage, ghost stories, Hilary Mantel, history, human remains, effigies, crypts, ruin.
Or, some of your questions answered
Published at 9:18 pm on October 14th, 2020
Filed under: Meta.
Keyword noise: Readers Letters, Battle of Hastings, history, counterfactual, alternate timeline, Cymru, Wales, Books I Haven't Read, Francis Bennion, E Shrdlu, blogging, Sarah from Ipswich.
Although we don't call it that, do we
Published at 7:32 pm on October 13th, 2020
Filed under: In With The Old.
Keyword noise: Bristol, local history, Greenbank, Greenbank Cemetery, heritage, Easton, cemetery, history, maps, death, The Children, weekend.
In which we pose an anniversary question
Published at 8:17 pm on October 14th, 2010
Filed under: In With The Old.
Keyword noise: alternate timeline, Battle, Battle of Hastings, counterfactual, England, Hastings, history, Norman Conquest, Normandy, William the Conqueror, Yorkshire.
In which your author becomes a rather paranoid architectural historian
Published at 6:13 pm on June 8th, 2010
Filed under: Dear Diary.
In which we discuss the language barrier
Published at 8:52 am on February 13th, 2010
Filed under: Dear Diary, In With The Old.
Keyword noise: Committee of Public Safety, Devil's Island, France, French, French Revolution, Henri Charrière, history, Musee Carnavalet, Papillon, Robespierre, salut, salvation, translation.
In which a book of history is the start of a thread back to the present
Published at 12:00 am on June 18th, 2009
Filed under: In With The Old, Political.
Keyword noise: books, Christopher Hill, civil war, English Civil War, fanzines, history, London Zine Symposium, publishing, radicalism, self-publishing, The World Turned Upside Down, zines.
In which we return to Tudor Parfitt, the Ark of the Covenant, and consider how archaeology has changed
Published at 12:44 pm on March 8th, 2009
Filed under: In With The Old, Media Addict.
Keyword noise: Africa, Ancient Britain, archaeology, ark, Ark Of The Covenant, The Bible, Biblical, British archaeology, British prehistory, Caitlin lectures you, change, Channel 4, cultural change, culture, Deuteronomy, diffusion, diffusionism, Exodus, Harare, history, Jewish, Judaism, Lemba, Moses, Old Testament, prehistory, Scotland, Scottish archaeology, television, telly, theory, Tudor Parfitt, tv, Zimbabwe.
Keyword noise: archaeology, Arrested Development, Atlantis, comedy, conspiracy theory, Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown, documentary, fake history, fake mythology, Freemasonry, Graham Hancock, history, Illuminati, Knights Templar, mythology, narration, Nostradamus, occult, Priory of Sion, pseudoarchaeology, Ron Howard, television, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.
In which we consider Robespierre’s eyesight
Published at 9:13 am on January 29th, 2009
Filed under: In With The Old.
Keyword noise: depiction, eyesight, fashion, Fatal Purity, French Revolution, George Galloway, glasses, history, Robespierre, Ruth Scurr, sight, spectacles, Tommy Sheridan, vanity, vision.
Keyword noise: archaeology, Bristol, Bronze Age, Cleo Broda, countryside, Hartcliffe, history, megalithic, neolithic, oral history, photography, redevelopment, rural, Somerset, standing stone, Stanton Drew, stone circle, Symes Avenue.
In which we discuss books and the French Revolution
Published at 1:42 pm on January 14th, 2009
Filed under: Artistic, In With The Old, Meta.
Keyword noise: biography, books, Books I Haven't Read, Fatal Purity, France, French Revolution, history, literature, Maximilien Robespierre, review, Robert Graves, Robespierre, Ruth Scurr, The White Goddess.
In which we muse what book to abandon reading next
Published at 12:55 pm on November 16th, 2008
Filed under: Artistic, In With The Old, Meta.
Keyword noise: archaeology, Books I Haven't Read, Christopher Hill, Robert Graves, civil war, English Civil War, Greek Myths, history, Levellers, literature, mythology, poetics, The White Goddess, The World Turned Upside Down.
Keyword noise: bouch, Dean Cemetery, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, engineer, etymology, ferry, grave, history, memorial, railway, Tay Bridge, Thomas Bouch, train ferry, trains, urban myth.
However much I would like them
Published at 9:52 pm on October 25th, 2007
Filed under: Dear Diary.
In which we go over some railway history
Published at 1:40 pm on March 14th, 2007
Filed under: Geekery, Political, Trains.
Keyword noise: accident, crash, derailment, facing point lock, facing points, FPL, flexibility, Grayrigg, history, junctions, Lambrigg, maintenance, points, Potters Bar, preventative maintenance, railway, railway history, signalling, shunting, trains.
In which we delve into railway history following a recent accident
Published at 2:17 pm on February 27th, 2007
Filed under: Geekery, In With The Old, Trains.
Keyword noise: accident, crash, derailment, facing point lock, facing points, FPL, Grayrigg, history, Lambrigg, points, railway, railway history, signalling, trains.
In which we revisit the past
Published at 10:30 pm on January 23rd, 2007
Filed under: Artistic, Photobloggery.
Keyword noise: Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, beach, black and white, footbridge, history, photography, railway, seashore, dunes, sidings, tower block.
In which we’re descended from great men
Published at 11:44 pm on January 11th, 2007
Filed under: In With The Old.
Keyword noise: 1066, ancestry, descendants, Edgar Aetheling, Edward The Confessor, English Heritage, genealogy, genetics, history, Niall Nine Hostages, Niall Noigíallach, O'Neil, William the Conqueror.
In which the ancient Greeks can calculate
Published at 9:06 pm on December 1st, 2006
Filed under: In With The Old.
In which we fail to read “Victorian Railway Days” by Francis Bennion
Published at 9:03 pm on November 28th, 2006
Filed under: Artistic.
Keyword noise: Atonement, books, Books I Haven't Read, David St John Thomas, Ernest Simmons, fiction, Francis Bennion, historical fiction, history, Ian McEwan, Jack Simmons, literature, Lucilla Andrews, Memoirs Of A Station Master, reading, research, source material, The Country Railway, Victorian Railway Days.
Or, can you really know everything?
Published at 9:39 am on October 30th, 2006
Filed under: Artistic, In With The Old.
In which things get recorded
Published at 1:41 pm on October 17th, 2006
Filed under: In With The Old.
In which we look at the concept of eternal rest
Published at 12:47 pm on June 2nd, 2006
Filed under: In With The Old, Political.
Keyword noise: burial, charnel house, cremation, death, Evelyn Waugh, funerals, Gladys Hammond, graveyards, history, invented tradition, Jessica Mitford, Kutná Hora, Sedlec, ossuary, ritual, The American Way Of Death, The Loved One, tradition.
Keyword noise: Bute House, Chequers, Chevening, country house, Dorneywood, government, history, invented tradition, John Prescott, minister, Petersberg, tradition.
In which a myth is researched
Published at 9:29 pm on February 1st, 2006
Filed under: Unbelievable.
Keyword noise: baking, birthday cake, cake, castles, Celtic, Celtic mythology, cooking, English, history, kitchen, London, mythology, oven, ravens, research, researching, Tower Of London, tradition.
Keyword noise: 1970s, books, death, Glasgow, Glasgow Subway, history, Jan Mark, literature, obituary, photography, railway, reading, subway, underground, Zeno Was Here.
In which we see where the family used to live
Published at 3:44 pm on January 21st, 2006
Filed under: Geekery, The Family.
Keyword noise: ancestry, cartography, Cornwall, family history, genealogy, history, maps, migration, spatial analysis, Spatial Literacy In Teaching, surname, Surname Profiler.
In which we are irked by a political myth
Published at 1:07 pm on December 5th, 2005
Filed under: Political, The Family.
In which we discover some family history
Published at 1:17 pm on September 2nd, 2005
Filed under: Dear Diary, The Family.