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Epilogue on Sarah Chandler
As I researched and wrote this I couldn’t help but think this story is worthy of a theatrical drama, or a film, or even, as is the trend...
Mar 72 min read
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My Identity - Home is where the curlews cry.
What of my identity? It is interwoven between marsh, fen and town but the world changes. My roots and ancestry is firmly in the Fens....
Jan 82 min read
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Sidebar - A Trip to Remember
May 28th 1914 saw the Welland Trustees take its annual trip "down below" into the waters of The Wash
Oct 2, 20244 min read
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Sidebar - The Rearing of Geese in all its Cruelty
Every so often I will publish material that did not make the script of “Marsh Fen and Town”. The following published in 1801 [i] is an...
Sep 1, 20246 min read
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Sidebar - How can you tell when a man is drunk?
Spalding policemen assumed a man was drunk after he loaded his pipe with pieces of pork pie and started to smoke it!
Aug 28, 20242 min read
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Sidebar – The Importance of Rare Breeds……. And their farmers.
The value of both rare breeds and those maintaining them is vastly underappreciated to the detriment of our food security.
Aug 15, 20244 min read
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Sidebar - The Loss of the Cranberry in the Fens of Lincolshire
In this piece I look how drainage of the Fens for agriculture saw the loss of the cranberry in the Lincolnshire Fens.
Jul 20, 202412 min read
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