Latest Blog Posts

Posted 0 sec ago

This is the entrance to the Bishop’s Wood Fish Mine in north Wales overlooking Prestatyn. Despite the name, it was where lead was mined, not fish, wood or bishops. Opened in 1725 by the London Lead Mining Company, several tons were extracted but it was rarely deemed profitable.

Moses sings in the fifteenth of Exodus:

Posted 0 sec ago

Posted 23 hours 3 min ago

At Middleton near Sedbergh is found a Roman milestone. It was first discovered in 1836 by Richard Bownass of Hawkin Hall, who had ploughed it up and arranged for it to be re-erected, but not before adding his own inscription to commemorate the great event, which he described as "restoring it from the soil".

Posted 1 day 23 hours ago

Gunby Hall by the Lincolnshire Wolds is a rather fine country house built in 1700 for some minor aristocrats, the Massingberds. The house was all very typical, with National Trust functionaries positioned in every room, regaling visitors with their scripted anecdotes of the various family members who once lived here.

Posted 2 days 23 hours ago

Posted 2 days 23 hours ago

Blue skies. Large, dry and brown (or yellow) fields. Flat landscapes and horizons dotted with medieval steeples. I have come down again to Lincoln’s shire.

Posted 3 days 14 hours ago

It was our pleasure to baptise three people yesterday afternoon. Pray that the Lord will bless them and keep them, and be pleased to use them for His glory.

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. Romans 6:4