tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post117470067680841862..comments2024-03-28T22:13:17.139+00:00Comments on Stonehenge and the Ice Age: HHT's grand day out -- and the Stonehenge greystonesBRIAN JOHNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-55347844230032068392018-11-08T11:51:05.797+00:002018-11-08T11:51:05.797+00:00Just discovered that Jim Leary was appointed new L...Just discovered that Jim Leary was appointed new Lecturer in Field Archaeology at York University on July 1st, Dave. Jim has worked a lot with David Field, well known figure in this Blog's Posts regarding Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain and Avebury/Silbury.TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-81102158290019861192018-11-08T11:48:31.821+00:002018-11-08T11:48:31.821+00:00Not too sure what the Kentish man meant, Dave! I c...Not too sure what the Kentish man meant, Dave! I consider Sheffield up t' North! However, when my family moved to Chesterfield, around 10 miles south, that town sported on its signs: Chesterfield: the Centre of the Industrial Midlands. Certainly, I was taken to task for my flat vowels in pronunciation by fellow - schoolmates. Quite a culture shock. But I stuck by my Yorkshire Roots [what a cricketer!].<br /><br />Isn't Skipsea well known, archaeologically speaking, for having a rather ancient rounded hill, altered by Man long ago? Jim Leary led a project nationally.<br /><br />By the way, folks, the new [female] actor playing Doctor Who comes from not that far north of Sheffield, near Huddersfield. She is plugging her roots incessantly on the Show.TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-30423560087061695712018-11-07T23:24:45.089+00:002018-11-07T23:24:45.089+00:00Samaritans campaign, 'Small Talk Saves Lives&#...Samaritans campaign, 'Small Talk Saves Lives', aimed particularly at preventing suicides on railway lines. Mentioned on Radio 4 News today at 5 o'clock with a case study.TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-86468726746256547572018-11-07T22:58:32.721+00:002018-11-07T22:58:32.721+00:00I know Stocksbridge well, having had some connecti...I know Stocksbridge well, having had some connections with a car repair place there.<br /><br />The peaks were such an easy place to get to from Sheffield with a huge variation in landscape all round. Part of my studies were on post glacial environment at Skipsea mere in Holderness, that was a truely unique landscape to go into from the hills around Sheffield. But then again, this is only part of that unique place called Yorkshire!<br /><br />I did put my foot in it before I went there, by saying 'I was going up to the north'. I was corrected by a Kentish man saying 'Sheffield is not north'.<br /><br />DaveDave Maynardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162915474983638825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-81709733662218369972018-11-07T22:34:24.832+00:002018-11-07T22:34:24.832+00:00I know it's different railway lines, Brian! Wh...I know it's different railway lines, Brian! When I said "I know it well", I was referring to Cardiganshire as a whole.<br /><br />These days I pass through Whitland on my rail trips to Fishguard and Goodwick.<br /><br />Mrs Jones' boarding house was quite close to that railway from Shrewsbury - I have very sad memories of a fellow student's death on that line a few weeks after Term started.<br /><br />Dave, I originate north of Sheffield, at Stocksbridge,a steel town right on the edge of that part of the Peak District National Park. My later school days were towards the south of that Park, in N Derbyshire. Consequently, I know the Hathersage line as well as the Woodhead Pass. No wonder at all I became a Geographer and a fan of geomorphology.TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-44188427971905376262018-11-07T12:45:45.176+00:002018-11-07T12:45:45.176+00:00Lovely sense of history in the making. Feels like...Lovely sense of history in the making. Feels like an Edwardian Alpine route from Rosebush to Crymych facilitated by different train lines. I bet there is a railway buff who could work out the train times.<br />When I was at Sheffield I often followed a route that started by bus dropped off on the Woodhead Pass, down the Derwent Valley,along Ladybower Reservoir and into the Hope Valley, before catching the train at Hathersage back to Sheffield.<br /><br />Dave<br />Dave Maynardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162915474983638825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-29653354194754960432018-11-07T11:38:24.503+00:002018-11-07T11:38:24.503+00:00Different railway line, Tony. The Cardi Bach ran ...Different railway line, Tony. The Cardi Bach ran from Whitland to Cardigan, via Crymych. The line through Llanbadarn was the main line between Aberystwyth and Shrewsbury -- the old map of railways was VERY complicated.....BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-60939719295666763682018-11-06T22:53:41.629+00:002018-11-06T22:53:41.629+00:00So did the "Cardi Bach" train emanate fr...So did the "Cardi Bach" train emanate from Cardiganshire? I know it well, it used to be 'Me and Mrs Jones' at Llanbadarn Fawr, near Aberystwyth. Her husband's name was Arthur, you know, perhaps a descendant.....you never know.......<br /><br />I reckon you should invite Michael Portillo and his pink trousers up, Brian, to do one of his railway progs in your area. In actual fact, you know, he's got a Series on the Railways and World War One repeated, at least over 'ere Across the Border. Very good, if you ask me.TonyHnoreply@blogger.com