I am up early in the morning setting out to have a look at the beautiful architecture of the town of Castle Cary in Somerset. I am particularly interested in the roundhouse and the market house, but the church beckons. PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORER My videos are funded by people like you. If you […]
Cheddar Gorge is a limestone gorge in the Mendip Hills, near the village of Cheddar, Somerset, England. The gorge is the site of the Cheddar show caves, where Britain’s oldest complete human skeleton, Cheddar Man, estimated to be over 9,000 years old, was found in 1903. Billy and I are in Somerset for a weekend […]
This is the second of my adventures in Bidborough in Kent with Nigel Sadler. This time I am at St Lawrence, Bidborough’s fabulous 10th century church on the top of Bidbrough Ridge. There is much to see including two old yew trees. And then of course there is windmill, now a dwelling of four stories. […]
I am on my way to Bidborough, a small village in Kent near Tonbridge. It is situated on a high ridge overlooking both the Kent and Sussex weald. I am joined today my Nigel Sadler, local heritage explorer, and we start our walk to Bidborough a mile and a half south at a tiny hamlet […]
Here is another yarn from the master storyteller, Phillip Mercer, and his Tales of Olde Sussex. This account is based around Heathfield in East Sussex in 1782. Maro Lombardi is an Italian artist who specialises in portraiture. There is something magical about his vibrant paints, yet there is also something tragic too. ——————————————————————- PLEASE SUPPORT […]
This is the third in a series of videos on the history of Duncton, a small rural village near Petworth in West Sussex. In today’s episode I am at the Holy Trinity Church with Ruth Aitchison and John Robyns. Ruth is the Churchwarden and tells me a little about the church and one of the […]