The Quest for England
A more personal set of videos exploring England, it’s towns, villages and countryside.
Today I am taking a short stroll to Shoreham Airport from close to Shoreham Bridge, across the recreation grounds and adjacent to the river Adur. Founded in 1910, Shoreham Airport is the oldest airport in the UK and the oldest purpose-built commercial airport in the world. It is now owned by Brighton City Airport Ltd […]
First: Sorry about the dreadful audio quality on this video!After my last cycle ride and my back was put out of action I am, perhaps foolishly, back in the saddle and out on another adventure during my permitted hour’s exercise during the Covid19 lockdown. This time I start at St Mary’s church in Goring-by-Sea, near […]
We are still in lockdown here in the UK. I am out for my permitted walk and off to find the Frink Heads in Worthing, West Sussex, where I live. The heads are four male heads mounted on plinths on top of an architectural colonnade in Liverpool Terrace. Set against a yellow brick façade, the […]
It is still lockdown here in the UK, but while out on my permitted walk, I wanted to seek out the house that playwright and theatre director, Harold Pinter, lived in for a couple of years in the early 1960s here in Worthing, West Sussex.Harold Pinter is famous for writing such plays as The Caretaker […]
We are still in lockdown in England, but I have crept out to Goring-by-Sea, as the railway calls it, which is about 3 miles from my house, to have a look at another section of English coastline. While there are older properties in Goring, down by the coast it is mainly houses from the 1930s […]
I have been a great admirer of naturalist and author, Richard Jefferies, for years. Today, I visit his grave at the Broadwater and Worthing Cemetery. John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 – 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and […]