By J. H. Ingram Let us make a rapid survey of the islands round the coasts of England, before examining them in more detail. Starting with the north-east coast, off Northumberland, there is Lindisfarne or Holy Isle, with its ruined monastery. Holy Island still retains its population and appears fairly prosperous. Some may challenge its title […]
By L. Т. С. Roll In the past, before the internal combustion engine banished the horse from the roads as well as from the water ways the great variety of goods carried by water included quantities of hay. When carrying such a bulky cargo the boatman frequently stood on the cabin top and steered by […]
By M ichael Chisholm All over England there are traces of villages that have ceased to exist, and many others are in the process of vanishing. In County Durham there are several threatened with dissolution. The population has been declining steadily, and with many houses abandoned and derelict the whole place had a forlorn and poverty-stricken appearance […]
By H. E. Edgerton Stark on the windy plain of Salisbury stands a huddle of rough-hewed blocks that have defied alike the winds and rains of 4, 000 years and the probing questions of historian and archeologist. This mysterious relic of ancient Britain is Stonehenge — place of the “hanging stones”.
By John Seymour There is always something peculiarly good-looking about an artifact which has been evolved by practical men for a practical purpose over the centuries. Waggons, for example, or boats. When I first saw a Northumbrian coble I decided that I had got to have one, willynilly. And so, when I got one, I […]
By Robie Macauley “Listen, Jim. It’s time to go back to civilization and I mean Cleveland, Ohio. This is monsoon country.” Turnbull looked from his inconvertible wife to the ceiling, as if to discern a clearing sky. “It’s bound to get better. There is something I especially want to see in Bristol,” he said with the mild obstinacy […]
