The Quest for England
This is Part Two of the walk with my friend Richard Suggett from the Veg Grower Podcast. We started our walk on Stopham Bridge which crosses the river Arun near Pulborough. Our aim is to get close to the Toat Monument, a a Grade II listed folly erected by Samuel Drinkwater 1827, which is on […]
Today’s walk is in West Sussex. My friend Richard Suggett from the Veg Grower Podcast and I start our walk on Stopham Bridge which crosses the river Arun near Pulborough. Our aim to get close to the Toat Monument, a a Grade II listed folly erected by Samuel Drinkwater 1827, which is on private land. […]
Another week of fun and games behind the scenes with the Bald Explorer. More trouble with the Esse woodburning stove, but great fun with the Purple Ranger, Julia Hartley, recording a new gallery show, geocaching video. Richard Suggett joins me on a walk filmed for the Christmas period and I am in the studio recording […]
The Bald Explorer has a page on Facebook. Attached to this is the Bald Explorer Facebook Group with over 1200 members who post pictures of walks and places of interest sought out by them. To encourage more to join and post, and to highlight some of those wonderful photos and stories, Julia and I decided […]
The spooky location in today’s video is a churchyard with no church. I am joined by local historian Andrew Shaxson who explains the incredible and baffling history of St Peter’s church at Treyford in West Sussex. Little remains of the commodious Victorian edifice that was erected to replace three so-called ‘mean’ little churches. Although new […]
Here is another week behind the scenes of the Bald Explorer. Production of the walking videos was halted while I had to shoot up to Yorkshire for some corporate video work. Sadly I was busy all day and when I wasn’t it as dark so I was unable to take advantage of being away and […]