The first adventure for Abe and Ernst is aptly going to be to do with windmills, Don Quijote´s giants in the landscape. Ernst and Abe are not going to have much luck in finding windmills around Tamworth, as there isn´t any. Tamworth being crisscrossed by rivers was ideally suited for watermills. There were though at [...]
Archive for September, 2010
CHASING WINDMILLS
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, Windmills, tagged abe and ernst, Hopwas, soldiers, whittington, windmills, woods on September 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
WHERE AM I?
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, tagged abe and ernst on September 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Ok this blog with the past landscapes around Tamworth is perhaps surprisingly being done away from Tamworth, in a place that couldn´t really be more different, Valencia in Spain. I´ve been writing about the explorations done over this summer and musings since then. As I´m not currently inhabiting that landscape I can only write about [...]
WIGGINTON PARK: REAL DEEP
Posted in earthwork, Wigginton Park, tagged deepmaps, earthworks, ridge and furrow, Tamworth, voyeur, Wigginton park on September 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just a bit of explaining of the sub-heading ” landscape history voyeurism” before I get deeper into Wigginton park´s past. All this as the title suggests has something of voyeurism about it. The obsession with uncovering the landscape, sneaking around has definitely got something of the perv about it. Even the action of nosing around [...]
WIGGINTON PARK: GET DEEP
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, Wigginton Park, tagged country houses, housing estates, major sites, trees, Wigginton park on September 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Continuing with the earlier post, Before Suburbia, I´m moved along the lost driveway onto Wigginton park, the great big park in the middle of the housing estates of Coton Green and Leyfields, Tamworth. It’s a great monument to the pleasure of grass. When I´ve visited Tamworth with a foreign acquaintance, I only take off their [...]
THE WOODHOUSE 1730-2010
Posted in Hopwas, pioneer houses, tagged Hopwas, woodhouse, woods on September 11, 2010 | 4 Comments »
This is a pretty apt subject for heritage weekend with a heavy dose of bitter irony. It´s official The Woodhouse, Hopwas is being demolished. Photos of the fenced off area appeared on the Midlands heritage forum and my spot listing application failed at the last hurdle with the ministry of culture. Many thanks for the [...]
BS: BEFORE SUBURBIA
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, tagged housing estates, leyfields, trees, Wigginton park, woods on September 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This is first in a series of posts looking at evidence of BS(before suburbia) pasts within the housing estate, focusing on Leyfields, Tamworth the estate I grew up in. Travelling along Comberford road in direction to Elford, you´ll come across a drive to the left called Copes drive, it’s an unkept road at the start, [...]
THE WOODHOUSE JUST GOT OLDER
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, Hopwas on September 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just when I was trying to move on from the woodhouse, having done everything I could without chaining myself to the place, news comes that the place is even more interesting and older than thought. This has reignited my indignation and campaign fervour and has sucked me back in(It seems to have this uncanny ability). [...]
RIVER JOURNEYS
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, tagged canoeing, Hopwas, ideas, rivers on September 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
My search for ways to investigate and ultimately enjoy the surrounding area around Tamworth had led me to contemplate a while back, travelling on the areas rivers(a canoe not a yacht!). This has been held back by many things, thinking about it too much, lack of watercraft,lack of experience, the appearance of that series by [...]
