Exploring Heritage, Landscape and Nature
I have gone to look at the place I was brought up and the wonderful fields and footpaths I use to play on. Horsham was in the 1970s a small and growing commuter town in West Sussex. Roll forward 50 years and, like much of this country and Sussex in particular, the drive to gobble […]
In this video I propose to reduce the number of videos I make by one less a week. However, since recording this, I thought, if people enjoy this simple talking to the camera format, I could fill the gap with a regular Sunday Chat updating the view on the weeks highlights and things coming up. […]
This is the second part of my video looking at decorating a period house. In this video, Kevin gets me to walk the plank over the stairwell to paint the ceiling. We also discuss the new fashion for chalk based paints and some of the earlier fads of the late 1970s and 80s. PLEASE SUPPORT […]
My good friend, Kevin Hall, has agreed to help me decorate my house – the hall and stairwell. It is a Victorian terrace and it got me thinking. What are the issues about decorating and repairing old period houses? And what paint should you use? Kevin is a professional painter and decorator and has some […]
Pirbright is a village in Surrey, and is in the borough of Guildford. David Chown joins me again as we wander to the church and have a look at the delightful 17th century rebuilding of the much earlier religious house that was once stood there. Explorer Henry Morton Stanley has his imposing boulder grave at […]
HG Wells wrote his famous book, The War of The Worlds, while living in Woking, in Surrey in the last quarter of the 19th Century. He set the landing of the first cylinder in the sandy soil of Horsell Common, a real piece of public land just outside the town. Today, I met up with […]