The Quest for England
Short videos and related content
Today young George Timperley and I are taking a journey on the Spa Valley Railway. He knows a thing or two about heritage trains. The Spa Valley Railway is a standard gauge heritage railway that runs from Tunbridge Wells West railway station in Tunbridge Wells to High Rocks, Groombridge, and Eridge, where it links with […]
Today I am following a guidebook walk around the outskirts of village of Biddenden in Kent. I have chosen one of the five walks presented in a booklet that sends walkers around the parish and across beautiful rural countryside. The walk lasts approximately an hour for an average walker and passes the squash court, crosses […]
The lovely Cynthia Julian and I are in Laughton, East Sussex. Having made a video with Eric Wilkins about his war time memories of the village, we decided to take short stroll along the Wealden Walk at the west end of All Saint’s church. Wealden District Council, with the help of each of the 42 […]
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 […]
I am taking a return visit to the wonderful Halnaker Windmill near Chichester in West Sussex to have a look at it since the restoration project last year. The work isn’t fully finished but pretty close. hanging titles have been placed around the outer wall. I am not sure if it really had them before […]
In this video I am following a guide book from the 1930s in Pulborough in West Sussex with my friend Richard Suggett. We want to see how much has changed in the past ninety years and whether we can find many of the objects mentioned in the book. S.B.P. Mais presented a series of walks […]