On my search for ancient and venerable trees in the Tamworth area I came along this from the endless resource of Charles Ferrers Raymund Palmer´s book on Tamworth. When Charles focused on a building, boy did he focus on it, his writings on the Moathouse throw up all sorts of info as if gone through [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Tamworth’
adding a whole avenue of trees
Posted in Historic trees, tagged moathouse, Tamworth, trees on February 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Adding trees
Posted in Historic trees, tagged Tamworth, trees on February 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A number of factors have induced me to write this new series adding trees, especially old trees to the Timehikes blog(might even get round to adding people at some point!). Firstly the Government crazy woodland sell off and the campaign to stop it, there´s been loads of really good arguments against it, for example Outlandish [...]
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 »
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 [...]
Bundle of search tools as forgiveness part II
Posted in Exploration kit, tagged resources, Tamworth on January 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As in the first part of a bundle of map links of forgiveness my posts are lagging far behind. There´s a lot of changes at the moment in the physical world which I´m not going into, as this blog is strictly obsessed with ´things´ of the past in the the Tamworth area. I´m convinced that [...]
The crypt
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, Musings, Underground, tagged Tamworth, underground, urban legends on December 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Found this very Victorian account of Tamworth on googlebooks called Town and Castle, by Charles Ferrers, from 1845(Click on the title to follow the link) It has a wealth of detail in where it mixes detailed history, personal accounts of discovery, local hearsay and Victorian morals/judgement. For example just love the bit in the extract [...]
Glasgote Reservoir
Posted in Underground, tagged Glascote, housing estates, Tamworth, underground on December 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
While googling info for the underground Tamworth timehikes series , came across this very Lovecraftesque information about a desolute field somewhere in Staffordshire It just needs some ´race of half humans´ and Clhutlhu overtones and that’s it. It´s taken from a history of Staffordshire By Dr Plot written in the late 18th century, here´s the [...]
Going Underground
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, Underground, tagged Tamworth, underground, urban legends on November 28, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Having being inspired by this inspiring project in Nottingham, the Nottingham cave survey. A great archaeological project that demonstrates to me be what investigating the past should be all about. It hasn´t hidden the investigation behind a curtain of academic drabness, they know it´s fun, the bastards, just look at those bikes! There´s something of [...]
Tamworth´s Anglo Saxon defences
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, earthwork, tagged Anglo-Saxon, dissappeared, earthworks, major sites, Tamworth on November 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Ok back in business and straight into the heart of the metropolis of Tamworth, or at least round the edges of the centre to have a look at the Anglo-Saxon to medieval defences that once surrounded Tamworth. Witness the Fitness, Abe and Ernst are back in training This post is riding the wave of Anglo-Saxon [...]
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 [...]
22 WAYS TO SPELL TAMWORTH
Posted in Musings, tagged lichfield, names, prairyerth, Tamworth on October 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This post is taking as a starting point a great chapter in the even greater Prairyerth book, from which this blog takes so much inspiration. The chapter is about names and as this is about Tamworth, well it´s about the name Tamworth. the chapter quotes ‘Sockless’ Simpson(what a name) I wouldn´t give a tinker´s durn [...]
