Continuing with exploring the souvenirs side to Tamworth Timehikes. This is the latest addition to Tamworth timehikes story.The blog started with those key ingredients listed in the about page with a desire to demonstrate that even a forgotten corner can turn up all sorts of history and be as interesting in it´s own way as [...]
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Roll on up, get your Tamworth Timehikes T-shirts
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, Souvenirs, tagged abe and ernst, souvenirs, Tamworth on February 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Dosthill Spa
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, tagged abe and ernst, country houses, Dosthill, rivers on January 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
While browsing the 1815 map of the Tamworth Timehikes area, I came across the name Dosthill Spa, between the then village of Dosthill and Two Gates on a bend of the river Tame and next to Dosthill house. 1815 ordnance map with orange arrow pointing out Dosthill Spa Many of the ´discoveries´ in the blog [...]
Tunnel vision
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, Underground, tagged abe and ernst, dungeon, Fantastic Mr Fox, hints, housing estates, underground, urban legends on January 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Since writing this series on underground spaces(see underground categories) in the Tamworth area, I´m seeing and imagining tunnels, subterranean spaces everywhere! Here´s a short incomplete list of some of the places I´ve seen, read or heard about subterranean spaces the last mont; Exploration Forums like Dark places and organisations Subterranea Britannica.Queries about rumours of underground [...]
SANDS OF TIME(HIKES)
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, Hopwas, tagged abe and ernst, Hopwas, photos, planet of the apes, quarry on November 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
These are a collection of photos taken a few years back of the sand deposits in the quarry on Hopwas Hill behind the Lichfield Transmitter mast taken at the dawn of the digital camera age. I remember it was my brother´s great idea to take up close up pictures of the dunes, capturing miniature desert [...]
BUNDLE OF MAP LINKS AS FORGIVENESS
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, Exploration kit, Musings, tagged abe and ernst, deepmaps, links, Tamworth on November 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
My posts are pretty non-existent at the moment, even slower than usual. I´m a bit overwhelmed at the moment hope to get back to more Abe and Ernst adventures and musings in the macro-macro world of tamworth timehikes soon. Meanwhile I´ll leave this post as a bundle of links about online maps and tools used [...]
ROBIN HOOD´S BUTT
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, earthwork, tagged abe and ernst, earthworks, elford, robin Hood on October 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This will get the American tourists coming in, come to Tamworth and see Robin Hood’ s Butt! Well according to history of the town and castle of Tamworth, by Charles Ferrers Raymond Palmer, 1845 they were located nearby in Elford and Wigginton. I´ll stop going on and leave pasted below this extract from the remarkable [...]
COPYRIGHT
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, tagged abe and ernst, copyright on October 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On this blog I´m often using material, especially maps from sites such as Staffordshire Past tracks, British library, and I´d like to take out some time to thank them and others for providing the material online without which blogs like this or other landscape investigation blogs wouldn´t be possible. To stop this sounding like an [...]
CHASING WINDMILLS:THE LAST CRUSADE
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, Windmills, tagged abe and ernst, coton green, dissappeared, housing estates, woods on October 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Windmill Farm taken from OS OpenData showing windmill farm and windmill Close, located on outer limit of Coton Green, Tamworth, click on for larger view. This is the best candidates for Tamworth´s very own windmill. Moneymore mill is on the outer limits of this blogs area and windmill hill, Whittington is a big maybe. Windmill´s [...]
CHASING WINDMILLS II
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, Windmills, tagged abe and ernst, moneymore, quarry, windmills on October 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
With the whole Don Quijote theme running through the last posts it seems appropriate to put this link to a great new idea in theory from Spain to participate in reading out loud the Cervantes classic Don Quijote on youtube(I think in Spanish). It’s a hefty book and anything that makes Cervante´s all time classic [...]
CHASING WINDMILLS
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, Windmills, tagged abe and ernst, Hopwas, soldiers, whittington, windmills, woods on September 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
