Below are a few more underground bits and pieces in the area. They all share in common, the fact that they are, as it says in the title, underground spaces beneath country houses and religious places. Country houses as well as religious institutions had the money, influence and power to do things on a grander [...]
Posts Tagged ‘woods’
beneath country houses and abbeys
Posted in Underground, tagged abandoned, dissappeared, Fisherwick, Packington, Polesworth, underground, woods on December 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
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
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 [...]
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, [...]
WOODHOUSE FUTURES
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, Hopwas, tagged funk, Hopwas, ideas, parliament, woodhouse, woods on August 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
There seems to be only two alternatives for the woodhouse(see previous post) demolish it, leaving a pile of old bricks in a clearing or letting it rot and continuing to be an atmospheric ruin for exploration forums. In a different world there would be another alternative doing something with it! So below are a few [...]
UPDATE ON WOODHOUSE
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, Hopwas, tagged abandoned, council, Hopwas, woodhouse, woods on August 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Below are the two reasons the woodhouse has been given a demolition order and my counterarguments: 1st reason:The buildings are a focus for vandalism and ‘goings on’ and are in a state of disrepair. Speaking with former members of ‘friends of Hopwas Woods’ who know a lot more history about the site than me, they [...]
STOP DEMOLISHING OF THE WOODHOUSE
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, Hopwas, tagged abandoned, council, events, Hopwas, woodhouse, woods on August 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m momentarily going to turn the blog into a campaign to save the 18th century historic Woodhouse, Hopwas. It’s historic significance can be seen in this earlier post. I’ve recently heard that the Woodhouse has had a demolition order go ahead, so it’s demolition could happen any day now! Here’s the post below : Hello all [...]
IF YOU GO OUT TO THE WOODS…..
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, tagged cows, events, Hopwas, urban legends, woods on July 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Below are a few incidents at Hopwas woods. All potential material for urban legends. I’ll keep adding any more incidents I find out about to this post. That will be a feature of the blog, I’ll be adding and substracting from posts, it’s not publish the post and move on. I’ll be going back and [...]
