Tag: Saturday Snapshots

• Saturday Snapshots of a Gateway to the Past

  Polesworth Abbey Gatehouse This gatehouse is virtually all that remains of Polesworth Abbey, and I can never pass it without thinking of the nuns who walked beneath it when the were forced to leave during the dissolution of the monasteries. For some of the women it would have been the only home they had ever…

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  June 23, 2012

  Dissoluion of the Monasteries, Henry VIII, nuns, Polesworth Abbey, Saturday Snapshots

• Witches, Woods, and a Big Cat (Saturday Snapshots)

  I’ve been at my mother’s for a few days, and I scheduled these Saturday Snapshots to appear early this morning, but forgot to press publish, so they just saved themselves and stayed hidden away!  They  were taken a week or so ago, on a glorious sunny day when the Man of the House and I…

  chrisharding53

  June 2, 2012

  bluebells, Hopwas Woods, Saturday Snapshots, Speckled Wood butterfly, Staffordshire Hoard, witches