The subject of the woodhouse, Hopwas everyones favourite abandoned house in the woods has flickered back into life on the internet after photos were published on the Hopwas Appreciation society Facebook page of the empty space where the Woodhouse once stood. I don´t want to sound like a broken record though and wallow in despair [...]
Archive for April, 2011
Woodhouse campaign: Lessons learnt
Posted in Exploration kit, Hopwas on April 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Victorian railway ruin
Posted in earthwork on April 21, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Close to the wreck of Ashlands farm in a landscape of wrecks is another wreck, stuck for close to centuries on a curve of the river Anker, an overgrown mound with a blue brick ruin of one half of a Victorian railway bridge beneath it´s overgrowth. It´s the most prominent remain of a stretch of [...]
Historic Books online
Posted in Exploration kit on April 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This post is the first in taking on the challenge I put out on a previous post, about putting resources out there and info in aiding the exploration of a given landscape and material for different ways of interacting with that landscape. In this post it´s historic books found online and free. This post will [...]
Which witch´s woods
Posted in Hopwas, Musings on April 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Hopwas Woods always draws me back, it’s the wild mysterious part of the Tamworth area. As Henry David Thoreau said in Walden ” Our village life would stagnate were it not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.” People in industrial estates produce objects whereas people in Hopwas produces myths and news stories. [...]
