The Quest for England
Today it is my pleasure to meet John Berkshire, one of the stewards of St Nicholas Church in Arundel in West Sussex, John very kindly agreed to show me some of the many curious artifacts to be found in the well cared for church on offer for the visitor.These include the curious witches circles scratched […]
Jo Goddard is a piper. She was invited to play her bagpipes at the top of the Biddenden church tower on 11th November to mark the beginning of the 100th year celebrations and remembrances of the end of the First World War. I interviewed Jo to find out more about the occasion and her love […]
Today I am interviewing Eric Wilkins who grew up in the village of Laughton in East Sussex. I am keen to learn his war time memories. He tells me about the flying bombs that flew over Sussex. Also about his father who was a wheelwright. Laughton is a village and civil parish in the Wealden […]
Julia and I are in Arundel, West Sussex Mark Philips, a town councilor, have taken us on a tour of the cells beneath the Victorian Town Hall. The place is allegedly haunted and Mark tells us a ghost story and shows us the isolation cell. This is the last in the present series of videos […]
Julia and I are continuing our tour with Mark Philips around Arundel’s Town Hall in West Sussex. We are shown where the town stocks used to be, the mayoral chair which was carried aloft during state occasions and the large function room where important meetings are carried out. We have one more video in this […]
Julia Hartley and I are in Arundel to meet Town Councilor, Mark Philips. We are given a guided tour of the unusual ‘neo-norman’ building and shown some of its fascinating secrets within. Julia with her hawk eye spots something unobserved by anyone else, changing history and opening up a whole new curiosity. There are further […]