The Quest for England
A more personal set of videos exploring England, it’s towns, villages and countryside.
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 […]
Julia and I are in Arundel, West Sussex Mark Philips, a town councilor, have taken us on a tour of the cells beneath the Victorian Town Hall. The place is allegedly haunted and Mark tells us a ghost story and shows us the isolation cell. This is the last in the present series of videos […]
Julia Hartley and I are in Arundel to meet Town Councilor, Mark Philips. We are given a guided tour of the unusual ‘neo-norman’ building and shown some of its fascinating secrets within. Julia with her hawk eye spots something unobserved by anyone else, changing history and opening up a whole new curiosity. There are further […]
Graffham is a village and civil parish in West Sussex, England, situated on the northern escarpment of the South Downs. Dave Ford is showing around his home village where he played as a kid. I also played here but in a different capacity in the 1980s. My videos are funded 100% by people like you. […]