The Quest for England
In today’s video, Mark Sellwood and I are off to look at the lovely St Euny church, near Redruth in Cornwall. It sits at the edge of Carn Brea and is believed to contain quite a few miners graves. The tin mines are dotted around the area and the various accidents and tragedies would have […]
This is the first of a mini series of explorations of Cornwall with my friend Mark Sellwood who lives in Redruth. Carn Brea is adjacent to Redruth, a large mountainous hills littered with the remnants from the Cornish mining days. The old steam pumping engine houses stand sturdy. The housed the steam engines that drained […]
This is the last of he mini series of videos exploring Dorset’s fine Jurassic Coast with Dave Ford. To day we visit Worbarrow Bay, just down the lane from Tyneham Village. Worbarrow Bay is a large broad and shallow bay just to the east of Lulworth Cove on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset. Thanks to […]
As part of my exploration of the Jurassic Coast with Dave Ford, we visit the deserted village of Tyneham. Tyneham is a ghost village and former civil parish, now in the civil parish of Steeple with Tyneham, in south Dorset, England, near Lulworth on the Isle of Purbeck. The village and 7,500 acres of surrounding […]
In today’s video, Dave Ford takes me to the fascinating quarry along the Dorset coastline known as Dancing Ledge. Dancing Ledge is part of the Jurassic Coast near Langton Matravers in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England. Dancing Ledge is a flat area of rock at the base of a small cliff. A little […]
Today Dave Ford and myself are heading off to one of my favourite places on Earth: Durdle Door. Durdle Door is a natural limestone arch on the Jurassic Coast near Lulworth in Dorset, England. It is privately owned by the Welds, a family who owns 12,000 acres in Dorset in the name of the Lulworth […]