The Quest for England
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The Lovely Julia and the Bald Explorer explore the site of forthcoming Biddenden Tractorfest and Country Fair which opens on 18th and 19th August They ride on a back of a wagon full of potatoes just so they can appreciate the size of the show. Find out more about Tractorfest here: http://www.tractorfest.co.uk/ My videos are […]
Paul Couchman, from The Regency Town House, shows us how to make historic pickles. Using a recipe from the 19th Century Paul takes us through the process of cutting, salting and pickling, He demonstrates the quaint way the chefs from the Regency period produced food. Cooking has moved on since the 19th century and so […]
The Jack and Jill windmills above Clayton in East Sussex are famous. We get an exclusive peep inside the wonderful Jill windmill. Jill is a post mill originally built in Dyke Road, Brighton, in 1821. It was known as Lashmar’s New Mill and was built to replace Lashmar’s Old Mill. In 1830, the Windshaft broke, […]
Today I meet up with Dumpman, aka Chris Bedford, to seek out Argos Hill Tunnel, part of the original Cuckoo Line. The tunnel is now disused and abandoned. Join us as we scrabble down the banks of the cutting to reach this piece of industrial heritage. Today, the Cuckoo Line remains a closed railway – […]
Richard Suggett is the man behind the Veg Grower Podcast. I was curious about what made him decide to start his podcast and learn more about his love for his allotment. Richard is based in Littlehampton in West Sussex. He has a full time job. His married too. But in his spare time you’ll find […]
Betchworth Castle is a mostly crumbled ruin of a fortified medieval stone house with some tall, two-storey corners strengthened in the 18th century, in the north of the semi-rural parish of Brockham. It is built on a sandstone spur overlooking the western bank of the Mole in Surrey in England. The ruin is a Scheduled […]